'Immediately' in the Bible
Now then, my son, do what I say. Run away immediately to my brother Laban in Haran.
Leave immediately for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the sacred stone and made a vow to me. Now leave this land immediately and return to your native land.'"
She left immediately, removed her veil, and put on her widow's clothes.
Then Judah said to his father Israel, "Send the boy with me and we will go immediately. Then we will live and not die -- we and you and our little ones.
But if you are going to deal with me like this, then kill me immediately. If I have found favor in your sight then do not let me see my trouble."
The Lord spoke immediately to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam: "The three of you come to the tent of meeting." So the three of them went.
If there is someone among you who is impure because of some nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp; he may not reenter it immediately.
When he held out his hand, the men waiting in ambush rose up quickly from their place and attacked. They entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.
This is why the Lord permitted these nations to remain and did not conquer them immediately; he did not hand them over to Joshua.
So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, "Come on! Let's escape! Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring disaster on us and kill the city's residents with the sword."
Whoever does not bow down and pay homage will immediately be thrown into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire!"
Now if you are ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, trigon, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must bow down and pay homage to the statue that I had made. If you don't pay homage to it, you will immediately be thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire. Now, who is that god who can rescue you from my power?"
"Go immediately to Nineveh, that large capital city, and announce judgment against its people because their wickedness has come to my attention."
Instead, Jonah immediately headed off to Tarshish to escape from the commission of the Lord. He traveled to Joppa and found a merchant ship heading to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went aboard it to go with them to Tarshish far away from the Lord.
"Go immediately to Nineveh, that large city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you."
So Jonah went immediately to Nineveh, as the Lord had said. (Now Nineveh was an enormous city -- it required three days to walk through it!)