59 occurrences

'Sent' in the Bible

So the people sent to Shiloh and got the ark of the agreement of the Lord of armies whose resting-place is between the winged ones; and Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were there with the ark of God's agreement.

Verse ConceptsJudgment SeatCherubim, At God's ThroneGod Sitting In GloryGod As A WarriorCherubim Depicted

Trouble is ours! Who will give us salvation from the hands of these great gods? These are the gods who sent all sorts of blows on the Egyptians in the waste land.

But the hand of the Lord was hard on the people of Ashdod and he sent disease on them through all the country of Ashdod.

Verse ConceptsDiseases, Kinds OfAnger Of God, Examples OfSwellingcancer

So they sent for all the lords of the Philistines to come together there, and said, What are we to do with the ark of the God of Israel? And their answer was, Let the ark of the God of Israel be taken away to Gath. So they took the ark of the God of Israel away.

Verse ConceptsRulers

So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And when the ark of God came to Ekron, the people of the town made an outcry, saying, They have sent the ark of the God of Israel to us for the destruction of us and of our people.

Verse ConceptsDeath Due To God's Presence

So they sent and got together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go back to its place, so that it may not be the cause of death to us and to our people: for there was a great fear of death through all the town; the hand of God was very hard on them there.

Verse ConceptsSending Things Away

And the Philistines sent for the priests and those who were wise in secret arts, and said to them, What are we to do with the ark of the Lord? How are we to send it away to its place?

Now these are the gold images which the Philistines sent as a sin-offering to the Lord; one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron;

Verse ConceptsRestitution

But the Lord sent destruction on seventy men of the people of Beth-shemesh for looking into the ark of the Lord; and great was the sorrow of the people for the destruction which the Lord had sent on them.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, FunctionArk Of The Covenant, PurposeDeath penaltyAnger Of God, Examples OfCarnageSacrilegeFifty To Ninety ThousandThe Ark Moved AroundGod KillingGod Killed His PeopleAnointing OilArk Of The Covenant

And they sent men to the people living in Kiriath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have sent back the ark of the Lord; come and take it up to your country.

Then Samuel sent for the people to come together before the Lord at Mizpah;

Verse ConceptsCongregationAssembling Israel

Then Samuel gave the people the laws of the kingdom, writing them in a book which he put in a safe place before the Lord. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.

Verse ConceptsExplanationsBooksBook of the Law

So they sent representatives to Saul's town Gibeah, and these gave the news to the people: and all the people gave themselves to weeping.

Verse ConceptsPeople Mourning Catastrophe

And he took two oxen and, cutting them up, sent them through all the land of Israel by the hand of runners, saying, If any man does not come out after Saul and Samuel, this will be done to his oxen. And the fear of the Lord came on the people and they came out like one man.

Verse ConceptsGesturesHeraldKnivesAnimals Cut In PiecesUnified PeopleTerror Of God

When Jacob and his sons had come into Egypt, and were crushed by the Egyptians, the prayers of your fathers came up to the Lord, and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who took your fathers out of Egypt, and he put them into this place.

Verse ConceptsPrayer, Answers ToPrayer, As Asking GodGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

So the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Barak and Jephthah and Samuel and took you out of the power of those who were fighting against you on every side, and made you safe.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and Judahenemies, of believersGod Saving From Enemies

So Samuel made prayer to the Lord; and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people were in fear of the Lord and of Samuel.

Verse ConceptsReverence, And God's NatureFear Of God, Examples OfIndividuals Fearing GodFear Of Individuals

And Saul took for himself three thousand men of Israel, of whom he kept two thousand with him in Michmash and in the mountain of Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah in the land of Benjamin: the rest of the people he sent back to their tents.

Verse ConceptsConscriptionA Thousand PeopleTwo ThousandThree Thousand And UpEarthly Armies

And Samuel said to Saul, The Lord sent me to put the holy oil on you and to make you king over his people, over Israel: so give ear now to the words of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsAnointing Kings

And Saul sent for the people and had them numbered in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah.

Verse ConceptsSoldiersCensusTens Of ThousandsTwo Hundred Thousand And MorePeople Of Judah

And the Lord sent you on a journey and said, Go and put to the curse those sinners, the Amalekites, fighting against them till every one is dead.

Verse ConceptsSinnersExtermination

And Saul said, Truly, I have done the orders of the Lord and have gone the way the Lord sent me; I have taken Agag, the king of Amalek, and have given the Amalekites up to destruction.

Verse ConceptsAnnihilationExterminationWe Obey

And he said, In peace: I have come to make an offering to the Lord: make yourselves clean and come with me to make the offering. And he made Jesse and his sons clean, and sent for them to be present at the offering.

Verse ConceptsHoliness, As Set Apart For God

Then Jesse sent for Abinadab and made him come before Samuel. And he said, The Lord has not taken this one.

Verse ConceptsRejecting People

So he sent and made him come in. Now he had red hair and beautiful eyes and pleasing looks. And the Lord said, Come, put the oil on him, for this is he.

Verse ConceptsBodyOutward AppearanceBeauty, In MenRed FacesGood EyesAppearances ofHairHandsome Men

So Saul sent his servants to Jesse and said, Send me your son David who is with the sheep.

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutThose Who Kept Stock

And Jesse took five cakes of bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them to Saul by David.

Verse ConceptsQuantities Of Wine

And Saul sent to Jesse saying, Let David be with me, for he is pleasing to me.

Verse ConceptsHuman FavourNetworkingsaul

And, hearing what David said, they gave Saul word of it: and he sent for him.

Verse ConceptsKings Summoning

And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and sent it from his leather band straight at the Philistine, and the stone went deep into his brow, and he went down to the earth, falling on his face.

Verse ConceptsForeheadsThrowing StonesSlinging Stones

And David went wherever Saul sent him, and did wisely: and Saul put him at the head of his men of war, and this was pleasing to all the people as well as to Saul's servants.

Verse ConceptsRankThe Righteous Prosper

So Saul sent him away, and made him a captain over a thousand; and he went about his business before the people.

Verse ConceptsGoing Out And Coming In

Then Jonathan sent for David and gave him word of all these things. And Jonathan took David to Saul, who kept him by his side as in the past.

Verse ConceptsGiving InformationIn Men's Presence

And Saul would have sent his spear through him, pinning him to the wall, but he got away and the spear went into the wall: and that night David went in flight and got away.

Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsExamples Of EscapingEscaping From PeopleAttempting To Kill Specific Peoplesaul

Then in that night Saul sent men to David's house to keep watch on him so as to put him to death in the morning: and David's wife Michal said to him, If you do not go away to a safe place tonight you will be put to death in the morning.

Verse ConceptsDawnWatchfulness, Of BelieversDuring One Night

And when Saul sent men to take David, she said, He is ill.

Verse ConceptsLying, Examples OfSick Individuals

And Saul sent his men to see David, saying, Do not come back without him, take him in his bed, so that I may put him to death.

And Saul sent men to take David; and when they saw the band of prophets at work, with Samuel in his place at their head, the spirit of God came on Saul's men, and they became like prophets.

Verse ConceptsSchool Of ProphetsThe Spirit Of GodSchools

And Saul, having news of this, sent other men, who in the same way became like prophets. And a third time Saul sent men, and they like the others became like prophets.

Verse ConceptsCommunicating Three Times

And let not your mercy ever be cut off from my family, even when the Lord has sent destruction on all David's haters, cutting them off from the face of the earth.

But if I say to the boy, See, the arrow has gone past you: then go on your way, for the Lord has sent you away.

And he said to the boy, Go and get the arrow I let loose from my bow. And while the boy was running, he sent an arrow past him.

Verse ConceptsHelpfulnessHelpful ChildrenSeeking For Concrete Things

Then the king sent for Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and for all the men of his father's family who were priests in Nob: and they all came to the king.

Verse ConceptsKings Summoning

And they sent word to David, saying, The Philistines are fighting against Keilah and taking the grain from the grain-floors.

Verse ConceptsThreshing FloorTaking Possessions

And Saul sent for all the people to come to the fight, and go down to Keilah to make an attack on David and his men.

Verse ConceptsPeople Attacking Their Own

And David sent ten young men, and said to them, Go up to Carmel and go to Nabal, and say kind words to him in my name;

Verse ConceptsTen PeopleSpoken Greetings

But one of the young men said to Nabal's wife Abigail, David sent men from the waste land to say kind words to our master, and he gave them a rough answer.

Verse ConceptsGreetingsInsulting Other PeopleTelling Of Happenings

Let my lord give no attention to Nabal, that good-for-nothing: for as his name is, so is he, a man without sense: but I, your servant, did not see the young men whom my lord sent.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfFoolish PeoplePeople With Apt Names

And David said to Abigail, May the Lord, the God of Israel, be praised, who sent you to me today:

Verse ConceptsBless The Lord!

And about ten days after, the Lord sent disease on Nabal and death came to him.

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyTen Or More DaysGod KillingGod Killing Individuals

And David, hearing that Nabal was dead, said, May the Lord be praised, who has taken up my cause against Nabal for the shame which he put on me, and has kept back his servant from evil, and has sent on Nabal's head the reward of his evil-doing. And David sent word to Abigail, desiring to take her as his wife.

Verse ConceptsDivine RestraintsHeadsRestraintGod Makes Evil ReboundGod VindicatesBless The Lord!

And when David's servants came to Carmel, to Abigail, they said to her, David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.

Then Abigail got up quickly and went on her ass, with five of her young women, after the men whom David had sent; and she became David's wife.

Verse ConceptsFive PeopleRiding Donkeys

And so David sent out watchers, and got word from them that Saul was certainly coming.

Verse ConceptsSpying

And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you made me come up, troubling my rest? And Saul in answer said, I am in great danger; for the Philistines are making war on me, and God has gone away from me and will no longer give me any answer, by the prophets or by dreams: so I have sent for you to make clear to me what I am to do.

Verse ConceptsMiseryApostasy Of SaulGod Not AnsweringProphecy AbolishedTroubling Individualswitchesawakeningsaul

Then Achish sent for David and said to him, By the living Lord, you are upright, and everything you have done with me in the army has been pleasing to me: I have seen no evil in you from the day when you came to me till now: but still, the lords are not pleased with you.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfGoing Out And Coming In

And when David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the goods to the responsible men of Judah, and to his friends, saying, Here is an offering for you from the goods of those who were fighting against the Lord;

Verse ConceptsPresents

He sent to those who were in Beth-el, and in Ramah of the South, and in Jattir;

And cutting off his head and taking away his war-dress, they sent word into the land of the Philistines round about, to take the news to their gods and to the people.

Verse ConceptsBeheadingPeople Stripping PeoplePeople Stripping OffSkullsGood News

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