'Instead' in the Bible

but Hannah did not go up with them. Instead she told her husband, "Once the boy is weaned, I will bring him and appear before the Lord, and he will remain there from then on."

But his sons did not follow his ways. Instead, they made money dishonestly, accepted bribes, and perverted justice.

But the people refused to heed Samuel's warning. Instead they said, "No! There will be a king over us!

Why haven't you obeyed the Lord? Instead you have greedily rushed upon the plunder! You have done what is wrong in the Lord's estimation."

When the time came for Merab, Saul's daughter, to be given to David, she instead was given in marriage to Adriel, who was from Meholah.