78 occurrences

'Summoned' in the Bible

So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?Kings SummoningThose Who Did Not Tell

Early in the morning Abimelech summoned all his servants. When he told them about all these things, they were terrified.

Verse ConceptsMorningSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfGiving InformationThose Who Rose EarlyFearing Other People

Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? What sin did I commit against you that would cause you to bring such great guilt on me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done!"

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?Kings SummoningWe Have SinnedWhat Sin?

So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, "She is really your wife! Why did you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac replied, "Because I thought someone might kill me to get her."

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of DeathWhy Do You Do This?Transferring Wives

When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, she quickly summoned her younger son Jacob and told him, "Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleTelling What People Said

Then Pharaoh summoned Joseph. So they brought him quickly out of the dungeon; he shaved himself, changed his clothes, and came before Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsDungeonsPrisonersShavingPrisonsAccommodationsChanging ClothesIndividuals RunningClean ClothesKings SummoningPeople Set Free By PeopleEtiquette

Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, "Why have you done this and let the boys live?"

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenKings SummoningWhy Do You Do This?

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "Pray to the Lord that he may take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will release the people that they may sacrifice to the Lord."

Verse ConceptsKings SummoningPray For UsPraying For SinnersTaking Animals

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God within the land."

Verse ConceptsKings Summoning

So Pharaoh sent and summoned Moses and Aaron and said to them, "I have sinned this time! The Lord is righteous, and I and my people are guilty.

Verse ConceptsConviction, Not Leading To RepentanceGuilty ConsciencesGod, Righteousness OfPunishment, By GodAcknowledge, SinKings SummoningWe Have Sinned

Then Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you!

Verse ConceptsSin, Nature OfHasty ActionKings SummoningWe Have Sinned

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, "Go, serve the Lord -- only your flocks and herds will be detained. Even your families may go with you."

Verse ConceptsKings SummoningWorship God!

Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel, and told them, "Go and select for yourselves a lamb or young goat for your families, and kill the Passover animals.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambLambsMoses, Significance OfKilling SacrificesOthers SummoningSheep And GoatsThe Elders Gathered

Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron in the night and said, "Get up, get out from among my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, serve the Lord as you have requested!

Verse ConceptsDuring One NightKings SummoningWorship God!

So Moses came and summoned the elders of Israel. He set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him,

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersLeaders, PoliticalOld Age, Attitudes ToOthers SummoningThe Elders Gathered

The Lord came down on Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain, and the Lord summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

Verse ConceptsGoing Up MountainsGod Going Down

Moses summoned Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person in whom the Lord had put skill -- everyone whose heart stirred him to volunteer to do the work,

Verse ConceptsImpulsesSkilled PeopleOthers Summoning

On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel,

Verse ConceptsAaron, As High PriestDay 8The Elders Gathered

Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, "We will not come up.

Verse ConceptsOthers Summoning

Joshua summoned the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one per tribe.

Verse ConceptsTwelve Tribes

So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and instructed them, "Pick up the ark of the covenant, and seven priests must carry seven rams' horns in front of the ark of the Lord."

Verse ConceptsSeven PeopleSeven ThingsThe Ark Moved AroundSeven Trumpets

Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said to them, "Why did you trick us by saying, 'We live far away from you,' when you really live nearby?

Verse ConceptsBetrayal, Example OfPretendingNeighboursPeople From Far Away

When they brought the kings out to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the commanders of the troops who accompanied him, "Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings." So they came up and put their feet on their necks.

Verse ConceptsFeetNecksSubjectionCare Of FeetThose Subjected To People

Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh

So Joshua summoned all Israel, including the elders, rulers, judges, and leaders, and told them: "I am very old.

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersInfirmities

Joshua assembled all the Israelite tribes at Shechem. He summoned Israel's elders, rulers, judges, and leaders, and they appeared before God.

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersRenewal, Of People Of GodAssembling Israel

Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, launched an attack against Israel. He summoned Balaam son of Beor to call down judgment on you.

Verse ConceptsCursing Israel

She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali. She said to him, "Is it not true that the Lord God of Israel is commanding you? Go, march to Mount Tabor! Take with you ten thousand men from Naphtali and Zebulun!

Verse ConceptsDeborahTens Of Thousands

Barak summoned men from Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. Ten thousand men followed him; Deborah went up with him as well.

Verse ConceptsFighting TogetherTens Of Thousands

He sent messengers throughout Manasseh and summoned them to follow him as well. He also sent messengers throughout Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they came up to meet him.

Verse ConceptsMessenger

When they really started celebrating, they said, "Call for Samson so he can entertain us!" So they summoned Samson from the prison and he entertained them. They made him stand between two pillars.

Verse ConceptsAmusementsLeisure, And PastimesRecreationRevelryMaking FunSports

All Israel heard this message, "Saul has attacked the Philistine outpost, and now Israel is repulsive to the Philistines!" So the people were summoned to join Saul at Gilgal.

Verse ConceptsOffenceSmellsHating Peoples

So Achish summoned David and said to him, "As surely as the Lord lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you serving with me in the army. I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion of the leaders, you are not reliable.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfGoing Out And Coming In

Now there was a servant from Saul's house named Ziba, so he was summoned to David. The king asked him, "Are you Ziba?" He replied, "At your service."

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyIs It Really?

Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul's attendant, and said to him, "Everything that belonged to Saul and to his entire house I hereby give to your master's grandson.

Verse ConceptsGiving To Others

Messengers told David what had happened, so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, "Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown again; then you may come back."

Verse ConceptsFacial HairHair GrowingWaiting Till Marriage

Then David summoned him. He ate and drank with him, and got him drunk. But in the evening he went out to sleep on his bed with the servants of his lord; he did not go down to his own house.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholDrunkenness, Examples OfPeople Making Drunk

So Joab went to the king and informed him. The king summoned Absalom, and he came to the king. Absalom bowed down before the king with his face toward the ground and the king kissed him.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingReinstatementKissesBowing Before DavidKings Summoning

So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke with them. (Now the Gibeonites were not descendants of Israel; they were a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had made a promise to them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)

Verse ConceptsTribes Of IsraelZeal

Next the king summoned Shimei and told him, "Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and live there -- but you may not leave there to go anywhere!

Verse ConceptsBuilding Houses

the king summoned Shimei and said to him, "You will recall that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, 'If you ever leave and go anywhere, know for sure that you will certainly die.' You said to me, 'The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.'

Verse ConceptsAssentingKings SummoningPeople Bound By Oaths

When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one except the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the Davidic dynasty.

Verse ConceptsLoyaltyCoronationsMaking KingsList Of Kings Of Israelalignment

When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from all of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Examples OfAssembling IsraelOne Hundred Thousand And MoreReinstating PeopleCivil War

So Ahab summoned Obadiah, who supervised the palace. (Now Obadiah was a very loyal follower of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsFaith, Growth InOfficersPalacesIndividuals Fearing GodKings Summoning

The king of Israel summoned all the leaders of the land and said, "Notice how this man is looking for trouble. Indeed, he demanded my wives, sons, silver, and gold, and I did not resist him."

Verse ConceptsThe Elders Gathered

The king of Israel summoned an official and said, "Quickly bring Micaiah son of Imlah."

Verse ConceptsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

The king of Israel said, "Oh no! Certainly the Lord has summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to the king of Moab!"

Verse ConceptsThree MenGiven Into One's HandsGod Will Cause Defeat

Elisha said to the king of Israel, "Why are you here? Go to your father's prophets or your mother's prophets!" The king of Israel replied to him, "No, for the Lord is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab."

Verse ConceptsThree MenWhat Have We In Common?Given Into One's HandsGod Will Cause DefeatProphets Of Other Gods

This made the king of Syria upset. So he summoned his advisers and said to them, "One of us must be helping the king of Israel."

Verse ConceptsTurning Against Men

Now Elisha the prophet summoned a member of the prophetic guild and told him, "Tuck your robes into your belt, take this container of olive oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

Verse ConceptsBeltsSons Of The ProphetsPreparing For ActionNamed Prophets Of The Lord

In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians and the royal bodyguard. He met with them in the Lord's temple. He made an agreement with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the Lord's temple. Then he showed them the king's son.

Verse ConceptsSealing A CovenantCommanderMercenariesOaths, HumanCovenant RelationshipsPeople Made Known

So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest along with the other priests, and said to them, "Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, take no more silver from your treasurers unless you intend to use it to repair the damage."

Verse ConceptsKings Summoningsales

They summoned the king, so Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to meet them.

Verse ConceptsOfficersScribesSecretaryRecorders

David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar, along with the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab.

Messengers came and told David what had happened to the men, so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, "Stay in Jericho until your beards grow again; then you may come back."

Verse ConceptsCutting HairTrimming Facial HairHair Growing

He summoned his son Solomon and charged him to build a temple for the Lord God of Israel.

Verse ConceptsSolomon's Temple

When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from Judah and Benjamin to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.

Verse ConceptsOne Hundred Thousand And More

The king of Israel summoned an officer and said, "Quickly bring Micaiah son of Imlah."

He summoned the officers of the units of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people, and all the people of land, and he then led the king down from the Lord's temple. They entered the royal palace through the Upper Gate and seated the king on the royal throne.

Verse ConceptsNoblesRulersThroneNamed Gates

So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest, and said to him, "Why have you not made the Levites collect from Judah and Jerusalem the tax authorized by Moses the Lord's servant and by the assembly of Israel at the tent containing the tablets of the law?"

Verse ConceptsChief priestsMoses, Significance OfTax Collectors

The king summoned all the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem.

So the royal scribes were summoned in the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month. Everything Haman commanded was written to the king's satraps and governors who were in every province and to the officials of every people, province by province according to its script and people by people according to its language. In the name of King Ahasuerus it was written and sealed with the king's signet ring.

Verse ConceptsProvincesSealing The MessageAlphabet

The king's scribes were quickly summoned -- in the third month (that is, the month of Sivan), on the twenty-third day. They wrote out everything that Mordecai instructed to the Jews and to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces all the way from India to Ethiopia -- a hundred and twenty-seven provinces in all -- to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, and to the Jews according to their own script and their own language.

Verse ConceptsAfricaMonth 3A Hundred And SomeAlphabet

If I summoned him, and he answered me, I would not believe that he would be listening to my voice --

Verse ConceptsPrejudiceGod Answered

I have given orders to my chosen soldiers; I have summoned the warriors through whom I will vent my anger, my boasting, arrogant ones.

Verse ConceptsSanctificationheroesventing

you whom I am bringing back from the earth's extremities, and have summoned from the remote regions -- I told you, "You are my servant." I have chosen you and not rejected you.

Verse ConceptsChoicesPeople From Far Away

Listen to me, O Jacob, Israel, whom I summoned! I am the one; I am present at the very beginning and at the very end.

Verse ConceptsAlpha And OmegaBeginningBeginning And EndI Am The LordI Am GodPay Attention To God!legacy

I, I have spoken -- yes, I have summoned him; I lead him and he will succeed.

Verse ConceptsMissionaries, Task Of

Listen to me, you coastlands! Pay attention, you people who live far away! The Lord summoned me from birth; he commissioned me when my mother brought me into the world.

Verse ConceptsAbortionUnborn FetusesIslandsSanctity Of LifeCalling, Of IndividualsGod Naming PeopleFrom The WombPay Attention To God!

Look at Abraham, your father, and Sarah, who gave you birth. When I summoned him, he was a lone individual, but I blessed him and gave him numerous descendants.

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfBlessings, To AbrahamGod's Activity In IsraelCalling, Of IndividualsGod Multipling PeopleOnly One Personsarah

So Jeremiah summoned Baruch son of Neriah. Then Jeremiah dictated to Baruch everything the Lord had told him to say and Baruch wrote it all down in a scroll.

Verse ConceptsBooksLiteracyOld Testament Claims Inspirationmovement

So Jeremiah summoned Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers who were with him and all the people of every class.

Verse ConceptsGreat And Small

(Samek) He rounded up all my mighty ones; The Lord did this in my midst. He summoned an assembly against me to shatter my young men. The Lord has stomped like grapes the virgin daughter, Judah.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersWinepressConvocationsTrampling PeopleTreading GrapesYoung People Suffering

After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come to a land restored from the ravages of war, with many peoples gathered on the mountains of Israel that had long been in ruins. Its people were brought out from the peoples, and all of them will be living securely.

Verse ConceptsRevelation Of The Future

But the more I summoned them, the farther they departed from me. They sacrificed to the Baal idols and burned incense to images.

Verse ConceptsBaal Worship, HistorySuperstitionGrowth Of EvilPeople Going AstrayIdolatryHow Not To WorshipOthers Summoning

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Cite (1 instance)
Marshal (3 instances)
Mobilize (2 instances)
Muster (25 instances)
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Summon (63 instances)
Summoned (196 instances)
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