5 occurrences

'Command' in the Bible

And I will make it a wasteland; it shall not be pruned and hoed, and it shall be overgrown [with] briers and thornbushes. And concerning the clouds, I will command {them not to send} rain down upon it.

Verse ConceptsBriersAgriculture, TermsPruningCommands, in OTdrought, physicalRainCultivationLack Of RainFallow Land

I send him against a godless nation, and I command him against the people of my wrath, to capture spoil and to carry off plunder, and to make them a trampling place, like [the] clay of [the] streets.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingGodlessnessNationalismTrampling People

But they shall {swoop} upon [the] Philistine shoulder, {westward}. Together they shall plunder [the] sons of [the] east. Edom and Moab {will be under their command}, and the sons of Ammon [will be] their subjugated people.

Verse ConceptsThe Prophecy Towards AmmonThe Prophecy Towards Edom

But they were silent and did not answer him a word, for the command of the king was, "You must not answer him."

Verse ConceptsResponseIndividuals Being SilentOthers Not Answering

Thus says Yahweh, the holy one of Israel, and its {maker}: "Ask me of the things to come {about} my children, and you command me about the work of my hands.

Verse ConceptsMan's Relationship With His CreatorQuestioning GodThe FutureSolar Eclipse

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