37 occurrences

'Took' in the Bible

And the woman took the two men, and hid them; and she said, Yea, the men came unto me, but I knew not whence they were:

Verse ConceptsHelpfulnessPeople Hiding PeopleGodly WomanMan And Womanhiding

And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, DescriptionThe Ark Moved AroundCrossing Into The Promised LandRiver CrossingsThings Going BeforePriests In ActionArk Of The Covenant

And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as Jehovah spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.

Verse ConceptsThe MiddleStones As MonumentsTwelve TribesTwelve ThingsIn The Jordan

And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.

Verse ConceptsStones As MonumentsTwelve ThingsIn The Jordan

And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesThose Who Rose Early

So the people shouted, and the priests blew the trumpets; and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsInvasionsShouting For JoyConquestChantingNot Turning AsidePeople TumblingBattle CriesTrumpets For BattleThings Fallingdrums

But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted thing; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the devoted thing: and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsThe AccursedAnger Of God, CausesGod's Intolerance Of EvilMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinProvoking GodUnfaithfulness, To GodUnder The BanPeople Of JudahUnfaithful

and he brought near the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zerahites: and he brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:

Verse ConceptsPeople Of Judah

And they took them from the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel; and they laid them down before Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsPutting Things Down

And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the mantle, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them up unto the valley of Achor.

And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city.

Verse ConceptsFive ThousandWest Sides

And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it; and they hasted and set the city on fire.

Verse ConceptsSpearsGroups RunningBurning Cities

And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

Verse ConceptsWhilst Alive

Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey unto themselves, according unto the word of Jehovah which he commanded Joshua.

And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the eventide: and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap of stones, unto this day.

Verse ConceptsGallowsGatesHangingPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSunsetsCairnsPeople Hung To DeathPlaces To This Day

they also did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine-skins, old and rent and bound up,

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitBottle, UsesenvoyCraftinessWineskins And Vatsimprovement

This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and is become mouldy:

Verse ConceptsRepulsive FoodBreadmold

And the men took of their provision, and asked not counsel at the mouth of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsAskingNot Enquiring Of GodDirection

And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, unto this very day.

Verse ConceptsSunsetsCaves For BuryingCorpses Of Other PeoplePlaces To This Day

And Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof: he utterly destroyed them and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining; and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done unto the king of Jericho.

Verse ConceptsAnnihilationConquestNo SurvivorsExtermination

and Jehovah delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel; and he took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.

Verse ConceptsThe Second Day Of The WeekExterminationDay 2Those God Gave Into Their Hands

and they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword; and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.

Verse ConceptsAnnihilationExtermination

and they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls that were therein.

Verse ConceptsVillagesAnnihilationNo SurvivorsExtermination

and he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to the king thereof.

Verse ConceptsAnnihilationConquestNo SurvivorsExtermination

And Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms.

Verse ConceptsKingdomsKilling Kings

And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any that breathed.

Verse ConceptsNo SurvivorsExtermination

So Joshua took all that land, the hill-country, and all the South, and all the land of Goshen, and the lowland, and the Arabah, and the hill-country of Israel, and the lowland of the same;

Verse ConceptsThe Shephelah

from mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and put them to death.

Verse ConceptsKilling Kings

There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: they took all in battle.

Verse ConceptsAgreements, Legal

So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Jehovah spake unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land had rest from war.

Verse ConceptsInvasionsRest, PhysicalWarfare, Examples OfTypes Of ChristConquestTime Of Peace

And these are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed unto them,

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityRank

And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine Responsibility

And the border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.

Verse ConceptsSwordsFighting EnemiesPeople Naming Things

And I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

Verse ConceptsChildren, attitudes towardsChildren, A Gift From GodGod Multipling PeopleBeyond The Euphrates

And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsBook of the LawWritingTreesMonumentsOaks

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