14 occurrences

'Turn' in the Bible

and keep your obligation to the Lord your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commands, ordinances, and decrees. This is written in the law of Moses, so that you will have success in everything you do and wherever you turn,

Verse Conceptsethics, and graceSecrets To SuccessMoses, Significance OfWatchfulness, Of BelieversKings, How They Should ActTestimoniesKeep The Commandments!Success Through GodThe Law Given Through Moses

So now I have just one request of you; don’t turn me down.”She said to him, “Go on.”

He replied, “Please speak to King Solomon since he won’t turn you down. Let him give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife.”

Verse ConceptsInfatuationTransferring Wives

Then she said, “I have just one small request of you. Don’t turn me down.”“Go ahead and ask, mother,” the king replied, “for I won’t turn you down.”

Verse ConceptsSmallness

Each of those deputies for a month in turn provided food for King Solomon and for everyone who came to King Solomon’s table. They neglected nothing.

Verse ConceptsGovernorsTables

When the skies are shut and there is no rain,because they have sinned against You,and they pray toward this placeand praise Your name,and they turn from their sinsbecause You are afflicting them,

Verse ConceptsLack Of RainSigns Of RepentanceSin Brings ImpoverishmentSin Producing Afflictions

If you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep My commands—My statutes that I have set before you—and if you go and serve other gods and worship them,

Verse ConceptsDifferent GodsIf You Do Not Keep Commands

from the nations that the Lord had told the Israelites about, “Do not intermarry with them, and they must not intermarry with you, because they will turn you away from Me to their gods.” Solomon was deeply attached to these women and loved them.

Verse ConceptsParticipation, In SinCausing People To TurnEncouraged To Serve Foreign godsIntermarriageMen And Women Who LovedNo DealingsLove Marriagerehabilitation

The king did not listen to the people, because this turn of events came from the Lord to carry out His word, which the Lord had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

Verse ConceptsHistoryProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtWord Of GodPredestination, Of EventsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

For David did what was right in the Lord’s eyes, and he did not turn aside from anything He had commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodSin, Universality OfPeople Who Did Right

“Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself at the Wadi Cherith where it enters the Jordan.

Verse ConceptsDivine DirectionHiding From PeopleBeyond JordanBrooks

Then the king of Israel called for all the elders of the land and said, “Think it over and you will see that this one is only looking for trouble, for he demanded my wives, my children, my silver, and my gold, and I didn’t turn him down.”

Verse ConceptsThe Elders Gathered

But a man drew his bow without taking special aim and struck the king of Israel through the joints of his armor. So he said to his charioteer, “Turn around and take me out of the battle, for I am badly wounded!”

Verse ConceptsBreastplatesBow And Arrows, Uses OfArmourDeath Of The Wicked, Examples OfArchers, Men Shot ByChancearmorlungs

He walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them but did what was right in the Lord’s sight. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesShrinesGood Kings Examples OfIncense Offered AmissPeople Who Did RightSacrificing On The High Places

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