16 occurrences in 13 translations

'Desired' in the Bible

Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

Verse ConceptsDivine FavourBuilding God's DwellingFavor

And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

Verse ConceptsTeachableness

And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsArrestingequipping, physicalWay, TheTying Updamascus

And he became hungry and desired to eat. But as they were making ready an ecstasy came upon him:

Verse ConceptsHunger, Examples OfHousetopsPreparing Foodhunger

And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country.

Verse ConceptsChamberlainsPeople Providing FoodNamed People Angry With OthersPrivate Rooms

Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.

Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds ofDerision

And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.

Verse ConceptsForty YearsThe Number Forty40 To 50 Years

And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.

Verse ConceptsChrist Was Killed

Paul wanted Timothy to go with him [as a missionary]; and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, since they all knew that his father was a Greek.

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalMissionary Work, Examples OfGoing TogetherIsrael HardenedJews

And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.

Verse ConceptsLeaving

When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not;

Verse ConceptsStaying A Long Time

And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.

Verse ConceptsAskingImportunity, Towards PeopleSpiritual Warfare, Causes OfAmbushAttempting To Kill Specific People

Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome.

Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds ofWeeksSeven Days

who, when they had examined me, desired to set me at liberty, because there was no cause of death in me.

Verse ConceptsPeople Involved In JudgementPeople Releasing Others

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