19 occurrences in 13 translations

'Order' in the Bible

in order to try Israel by them, whether they are keeping the way of Jehovah, to go in it, as their fathers kept it or not.'

Verse ConceptsProving, Through Testing

These are the nations the Lord left in order to test Israel, since the Israelites had fought none of these in any of the wars with Canaan.

Verse ConceptsMilitarySurvivors Of The NationsBattleTestsisraeltrainingexams

only in order that the generations of the sons of Israel might be taught war, those who had not experienced it formerly).

Verse ConceptsReady For War

The Angel of the Lord came, and He sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash, the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in the wine vat in order to hide it from the Midianites.

Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsAppearances Of God In OtGrainThreshingWheatWinepressWarriorsOaksActing In Secretgideon

and build an altar to the LORD your God on the top of the stronghold here, with stones laid in due order; then take the second bull, and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Ashe'rah which you shall cut down."

Verse ConceptsHeightWoodAltars, Built ByAltars To The LordBuilding AltarsFirewood

Then Gideon said to God, "In order to see that you will deliver Israel by my hand, just as you have said,

Verse Conceptsartistsgideon

They stood in order all around the camp. The whole army ran away; they shouted as they scrambled away.

Verse ConceptsPeoples Who Fledarmy

so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Nature OfSeventiesKilling Brothers

they would order him, "Pronounce the word "Shibboleth' right now." If he said "Sibboleth," not being able to pronounce it correctly, they would seize him and slaughter him there at the fords of the Jordan River. During those days 42,000 descendants of Ephraim died that way.

Verse ConceptsForty Thousand And UpFordsKilling Within Israelbridges

And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?

Verse Conceptsvocation

The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” And they said, “We have come up to bind Samson in order to do to him as he did to us.”

Verse ConceptsRepaying Evil For EvilTying UpWhy Do You Do This?

And the rulers of [the] Philistines came up to her and said, "Entice him and find out what makes his strength so great, and how we can overpower him, so that we may bind him up in order to subdue him; each of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.

Verse ConceptsCoinageEnticementEnticingTying Up

when her husband got up and went after her, intending to speak lovingly to her in order to win her back. He took with him his young man servant and a pair of donkeys. When she brought him into her father's house to see him, her father was happy to have met him.

Verse ConceptsPersuasion

They turned aside there in order to enter and lodge in Gibeah. When they entered, they sat down in the open square of the city, for no one took them into his house to spend the night.

Verse ConceptsHospitality, Examples OfInhospitalityCity SquaresNot Welcoming PeopleStaying Temporarily

Now then, hand over the men those ungodly men, and we'll execute them in order to remove this evil from Israel."

Verse ConceptsPurity, Moral And SpiritualHanding Over PeopleDeath Penalty For Sexual Sin

And the men of Israel went out to war against Benjamin (and the men of Israel put their forces in fighting order against them at Gibeah).

Verse ConceptsConfrontationFighting One Another

But the people, the men of Israel, taking heart again, put their forces in order and took up the same position as on the first day.

Verse ConceptsDoubt, Dealing WithEncouraging DoubtersDoing Repeatedlyreinforcement

And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in fighting order against Gibeah as before.

Verse ConceptsDoing Repeatedly

So all the men of Israel got up and put themselves in fighting order at Baal-tamar: and those who had been waiting secretly to make a surprise attack came rushing out of their place on the west of Geba.

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