'Insisted' in the Bible
But Jacob insisted, "Swear it by an oath right now." So he swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.
"No," he insisted, "but you have come to see if our land is vulnerable."
"I'm right!" Joseph insisted. "Just as I said, you're spies!
"Promise me," Israel insisted. So Joseph promised. Then Israel collapsed on his bed.
The overseers insisted, “Finish your assigned work each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
Yet Edom insisted, “You must not travel through.” And they came out to confront them with a large force of heavily-armed people.
The people refused to listen to Samuel. Instead, they insisted, "No! Let a king rule over us instead!
One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal.
But Elisha replied, "As certainly as the Lord lives (whom I serve), I will take nothing from you." Naaman insisted that he take it, but he refused.
But Naaman insisted, “Please, accept 150 pounds.” He urged Gehazi and then packed 150 pounds of silver in two bags with two changes of clothes. Naaman gave them to two of his young men who carried them ahead of Gehazi.
(The Chorus)“Where has your beloved gone,O most beautiful among women?Where is your beloved hiding himself,That we may seek him with you?”
For long ago I broke your yoke;I tore off your chains.You insisted, “I will not serve!”On every high hilland under every green treeyou lie down like a prostitute.
They have contradicted the Lordand insisted, “It won’t happen.Harm won’t come to us;we won’t see sword or famine.”
Jesus immediately insisted that His disciples get into the boat and go ahead [of Him] to the other side to Bethsaida, while He was dismissing the crowd.
But Peter insisted emphatically, "Even if I must die with you, I will never deny you." And all of them said the same thing.
And after about an hour still another insisted, "Certainly this man was with him, because he too is a Galilean."
But they insisted, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judaea, beginning from Galilee even on to here.
But they urgently insisted, demanding with frantic outcries that He should be crucified; and their clamour prevailed.
But they urged Him [not to go on], saying, “Stay with us, because it is almost evening, and the day has just about ended.” So He went inside to stay with them.
They said to her, "You are crazy!" But she insisted that it was so. They said, "It is his angel."
but Paul insisted that they should not take along this one who had left them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.
{Although we could have insisted on our own importance} as apostles of Christ, yet we became infants in your midst, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.