44 occurrences

'Summoned' in the Bible

Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, "What have you done to me! Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?Kings SummoningThose Who Did Not Tell

because Abraham kept saying about his wife Sarah, "She is my sister," King Abimelech of Gerar summoned them and took Sarah into his household.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitdoubtersMisrepresentationTaking Other PeopleSiblingsRelationship TroublesSportssarahrejuvenation

So Abimelech got up early the next morning, summoned all his servants, and told them all these things. The men became terrified.

Verse ConceptsMorningSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfGiving InformationThose Who Rose EarlyFearing Other People

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "Go, offer sacrifices to your God in the land."

Verse ConceptsKings Summoning

Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, "Choose sheep for your families, and slaughter the Passover lamb.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambLambsMoses, Significance OfKilling SacrificesOthers SummoningSheep And GoatsThe Elders Gathered

Then he summoned Moses and Aaron during the night and told them: "Get up, go out from among my people, both you and the Israelis! Go, serve the LORD as you have said.

Verse ConceptsDuring One NightKings SummoningWorship God!

When Moses came, he summoned the elders of the people and told them everything that the LORD had commanded him.

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersLeaders, PoliticalOld Age, Attitudes ToOthers SummoningThe Elders Gathered

When the LORD came down on Mount Sinai to the top of the mountain, he summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

Verse ConceptsGoing Up MountainsGod Going Down

Then Moses summoned Bezalel, Oholiab, and all the skilled people to whom the LORD had given ability, including everyone whose hearts stirred them to come forward to do the work.

Verse ConceptsImpulsesSkilled PeopleOthers Summoning

Then the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, stood at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and summoned Aaron and Miriam. So both of them went forward.

Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsRevelation, In OtGod Appearing At The Doorway

Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and asked them, "Why did you deceive us by saying "We live far away from you,' even though you were, in fact, living in our midst?

Verse ConceptsBetrayal, Example OfPretendingNeighboursPeople From Far Away

The Ammonites were summoned and they encamped in Gilead. The Israelis assembled together and encamped in Mizpah.

Verse ConceptsAssembly

The Philistines summoned the priests and diviners and asked, "What should we do about the Ark of the LORD? Tell us how we should send it back to its place."

Samuel summoned the people to the LORD at Mizpah.

Verse ConceptsCongregationAssembling Israel

All Israel heard the report, "Saul has attacked the Philistine garrison and Israel has also become repulsive to the Philistines." Then the people were summoned to Saul at Gilgal.

Verse ConceptsOffenceSmellsHating Peoples

Saul summoned the people and mustered them in Telaim, 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men from Judah.

Verse ConceptsSoldiersCensusTens Of ThousandsTwo Hundred Thousand And MorePeople Of Judah

Then Jesse summoned Abinadab and brought him before Samuel, and he said, "Neither has the LORD chosen this one."

Verse ConceptsRejecting People

Jonathan summoned David and told him all this. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and David served him as before.

Verse ConceptsGiving InformationIn Men's Presence

Saul summoned for battle all his forces to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

Verse ConceptsPeople Attacking Their Own

Samuel told Saul, "Why did you disturb me by bringing me up?" Saul said, "I'm in great distress. The Philistines are waging war against me. God has departed from me and won't answer me anymore, either by messages written by the hand of the prophets or by dreams. So I've summoned you to tell me what I should do."

Verse ConceptsMiseryApostasy Of SaulGod Not AnsweringProphecy AbolishedTroubling Individualswitchesawakeningsaul

Then Achish summoned David and told him, "As surely as the LORD lives, you are trustworthy, and it seems good to me for you to campaign with me as part of the army. Indeed, I've not found any evil in you from the time you came to me until now. But the leaders don't approve of you.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfGoing Out And Coming In

So David summoned Joab, and told him, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." So Joab sent Uriah to David.

So when Joab approached the king and told him what Absalom had said, he summoned Absalom, who then came to the king and fell to the ground on his face in front of him. Then the king kissed Absalom.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingReinstatementKissesBowing Before DavidKings Summoning

after being summoned. When Jeroboam and the entire assembly of Israel arrived, they spoke to Rehoboam,

Verse ConceptsOthers Summoning

Then the king of Israel remarked, "Oh no! The LORD has summoned us three kings so he can hand us over to Moab, hasn't he?"

Verse ConceptsThree MenGiven Into One's HandsGod Will Cause Defeat

Elisha asked the king of Israel, "What do I have in common with you? Go visit your parents' prophets." The king of Israel replied, "No! The LORD has summoned these three kings so he can hand them over to Moab!"

Verse ConceptsThree MenWhat Have We In Common?Given Into One's HandsGod Will Cause DefeatProphets Of Other Gods

He told his attendant Gehazi, "Call this Shunammite." So when he had summoned her, she stood in front of him.

Verse ConceptsOthers Summoning

Then David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar, along with the descendants of Levi Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab

after being summoned. When Jeroboam and all of Israel arrived, they spoke to Rehoboam,

But Jehoiada the priest summoned the captains of hundreds who had been appointed in charge over the army and ordered them, "Bring her out between the ranks, and execute anyone who follows her." The priest also told them, "Don't execute her in the LORD's Temple."

so the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest and asked him, "Why haven't you required the descendants of Levi to bring from Judah and Jerusalem the tax levied by Moses, the LORD's servant, and the assembly of Israel for the Tent of Testimony?"

Verse ConceptsChief priestsMoses, Significance OfTax Collectors

The king's scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and all that Haman commanded was written to the regional authorities of the king, to the governors who were over each province, and to the officials of each people. This order was translated in the name of King Ahasuerus into the language of each province and bore the seal of the king's signet ring.

Verse ConceptsProvincesSealing The MessageAlphabet

Then Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs, whom he had assigned to her, and she ordered him to go to Mordecai to find out what was happening and why it was happening.

Verse ConceptsAsking Particular Questions

"Every servant of the king and every person in the king's provinces knows that for any man or woman who goes to the king in the inner court without being summoned there is only one law that he be put to death unless the king holds out the golden scepter to him. Only then he will live. For these last 30 days I've not been summoned to come to the king."

Verse ConceptsOne MonthDeath Penalty For Violence

The king's scribes were summoned at that time, on the twenty-third day of the third month, which is the month Sivan, and everything that Mordecai commanded the Jewish people, the regional authorities, the governors, and the provincial officials of the 127 provinces from India to Cush was written down for each province according to its script, for each people according to their language, and for the Jewish people according to their script and language.

Verse ConceptsAfricaMonth 3A Hundred And SomeAlphabet

"Were I to be summoned, and he were to answer me, I wouldn't even believe that he was listening to what I have to say.

Verse ConceptsPrejudiceGod Answered

God, the LORD, has spoken. He has summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting place.

Verse ConceptseastGod, Power OfThe SunWestGod SpeakingThe Lord [Yahweh] Is God

He summoned the heavens above and the earth below, to sit in judgment on his people.

Verse ConceptsGod, As Judge

I myself have commanded my consecrated ones; I have also summoned my warriors, those who rejoice in my triumph, to carry out my angry judgments.

Verse ConceptsSanctificationheroesventing

Who has aroused victory from the east, and has summoned it to his service, and has handed over nations to him? Who brings down kings, and turns them into dust with his sword, into windblown stubble with his bow?

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfGod's Activity In The NationsChaffOut Of The EastLight As Chaff

Jeremiah summoned Neriah's son Baruch and at Jeremiah's dictation, Baruch wrote on the scroll all the words of the LORD that he had spoken to him.

Verse ConceptsBooksLiteracyOld Testament Claims Inspirationmovement

"""Many days from now in the latter years you will be summoned to a land that has been restored from violence. You will be gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which formerly had been a continuous waste, but which will be populated with people who have been brought back from the nations. All of them will be living there securely.

Verse ConceptsRevelation Of The Future

Then King Nebuchadnezzar summoned the regional authorities, governors, deputy governors, advisors, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all of the other administrators of the provinces, ordering them to come to the dedication of the statue that he had erected.

Verse ConceptsAssembling Leaders

"Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel. Because I am about to do this, prepare to be summoned to your God, Israel!"

Verse ConceptsReadinessMeeting GodPreparation

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