18 occurrences in 13 translations

'Order' in the Bible

(Now her rival wife would provoke her severely in order to upset her because Yahweh had closed her womb.)

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesProvokingReasons For BarrennessTroubling IndividualsSchoolFun

She said, "Just as surely as you are alive, my lord, I am the woman who previously stood here with you in order to pray to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsPrayer, Practicalities OfStandingThis Is Me

Why, then, do all of you show contempt for my sacrifice and offering that I've commanded for my dwelling? And you honor your sons more than me in order to fatten yourselves from the best of all the offerings of my people Israel.'

Verse Conceptsevil, believers' responses toFat PeopleKickingPraising Specific PeopleDishonoring God

And the Philistines put their forces in order against Israel, and the fighting was hard, and Israel was overcome by the Philistines, who put to the sword about four thousand of their army in the field.

Verse ConceptsFour ThousandKilling Within Israel

And a man of Benjamin went running from the fight and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothing out of order and earth on his head.

Verse ConceptsHeadsRunning With NewsThose Who Tore Clothes

So all Israel had to go down to the Philistines in order to get their plowshares, cutting instruments, axes, and sickles sharpened.

Verse ConceptsAxesSharpening

Saul answered, “The troops brought them from the Amalekites and spared the best sheep and cattle in order to offer a sacrifice to the Lord your God, but the rest we destroyed.”

Verse ConceptsAnnihilation

Let our lord order his servants who attend you to look for a man who is skilled in playing the lyre. And then when an evil spirit from God comes on you, he will play and you will be better."

Verse ConceptsHarpsInstrumentalists

And Saul and the men of Israel came together and took up their position in the valley of Elah, and put their forces in order against the Philistines.

Verse ConceptsConfrontationAssemblyEarthly Armies

David was going back and forth from Saul in order to care for his father's sheep in Bethlehem.

Verse ConceptsHelpfulnessThose Who Kept Stock

Then David left his baggage in the care of the baggage keeper, and ran to the battle line and entered in order to greet his brothers.

Verse ConceptsGreetingsIndividuals RunningBaggage

Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your insolence and the wickedness of your heart; for you have come down in order to see the battle.”

Verse ConceptsCriticism, against believersEmotions, Kinds OfAnger, HumanShepherds, As OccupationsSpeech, Negative Aspects OfAnger Of Man, CauseNamed People Angry With OthersNo More Tending The FlockEmotions

Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him, in order to put him to death in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be put to death.”

Verse ConceptsDawnWatchfulness, Of BelieversDuring One Night

Then Saul threw his spear at Jonathan in order to strike him down. So Jonathan was convinced that his father had decided to kill David.

Verse ConceptsSpearsThrowing Spears

So the priest gave him consecrated bread; for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence which was removed from before the Lord, in order to put hot bread in its place when it was taken away.

Verse ConceptsConsecrated BreadHot ThingsHallowed

And Saul and his men went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men went on the other: and David's purpose was to get away as quickly as possible, for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men were making a circle round David and his men in order to take them.

Verse ConceptsOpposite SidesHasty Action

In those days the Philistines gathered their troops for war in order to fight Israel. Achish said to David, "You should fully understand that you and your men must go with me into the battle."

Verse ConceptsFighting Together

And so he made it a rule and an order for Israel from that day till now.

Verse ConceptsOrdinancesStatutes To This Day

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