18 occurrences in 12 translations

'Followed' in the Bible

So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.

Verse ConceptsWaterDry PlacesSeven DaysNo Water For People

But when the Moabites arrived at the Israeli encampment, the Israelis got up and attacked them. The Moabites ran away from the Israelis, who followed them into the land as they continued their pursuit against Moab.

Verse ConceptsInvasionsPeoples Who Fled

And the mother of the child said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her.

Verse ConceptsBeing A MotherCompanionshipMothers Love For Her Children

So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?

Verse ConceptsChariotsIndividuals RunningPeople Following People

So they followed them as far as the Jordan. They saw that the whole way was littered with clothes and equipment the Arameans had thrown off in their haste. The messengers returned and told the king.

Verse ConceptsAbandoning ThingsHasty Action

So the woman followed the instructions given to her by the man of God, and she went to the territory of the Philistines to live for seven years with her household.

Verse ConceptsSeven YearsMan Of God

He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab's dynasty had done, for he married Ahab's daughter. He did evil in the sight of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsThe Kingdom Of Others

He followed in the footsteps of Ahab's dynasty and did evil in the sight of the Lord, like Ahab's dynasty, for he was related to Ahab's family.

Verse ConceptsSons In LawThe Kingdom Of Others

But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.

Verse ConceptsShoutingMegiddo

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.

He did what the Lord approved, but not like David his father. He followed the example of his father Joash.

Verse ConceptsKingship, HumanNot Imitating GoodPeople Who Did Right

He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire, a horrible sin practiced by the nations whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.

Verse ConceptsChild sacrificeSacrifice, In OtSanctity Of LifePagan PracticesInfanticideThe Lord Drove Them Out

they observed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before Israel, and followed the example of the kings of Israel.

Verse ConceptsHeathenImitating Wicked PeopleThe Lord Drove Them Out

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

Verse ConceptsFutilityFalse ReligionConformityPrayerlessnessRejection Of GodImitating Wicked PeopleForsaking God's ThingsUseless EndeavourBreaking The Covenant

Judah also failed to keep the commandments of the Lord their God; they followed Israel's example.

Verse ConceptsBreaking God's Lawcommandments

The Israelites followed in the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and did not repudiate them.

Verse ConceptsImitating Wicked Kings

He followed in the footsteps of his father and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols which his father had worshiped.

He did what the Lord approved and followed in his ancestor David's footsteps; he did not deviate to the right or the left.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfGood Kings Examples OfSteadfastness, Examples OfImitating Good KingsNot Turning AsidePeople Who Did Right

Bible Theasaurus

Accompany (60 instances)
Adopt (6 instances)
Comply (5 instances)
Espouse (2 instances)
Follow (353 instances)
Followed (269 instances)
Observe (357 instances)
Pursue (143 instances)
Succeed (82 instances)
Survey (8 instances)
Trace (12 instances)

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