'Suppose' in the Bible
Suppose a prophet or one who foretells by dreams should appear among you and show you a sign or wonder,
Suppose your own full brother, your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend should seduce you secretly and encourage you to go and serve other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have previously known,
Suppose you should hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you as a place to live, that
Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you -- in one of your villages that the Lord your God is giving you -- who sins before the Lord your God and breaks his covenant
Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living, to the place the Lord chooses
Suppose he goes with someone else to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose from the handle and strikes his fellow worker so hard that he dies. The person responsible may then flee to one of these cities to save himself.
However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.
Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.
Suppose a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and then rejects her,
Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and overpowers and rapes her and they are discovered.
But just suppose you continue to say, 'The message of the Lord is burdensome.' Here is what the Lord says will happen: 'I sent word to you that you must not say, "The Lord's message is burdensome." But you used the words "The Lord's message is burdensome" anyway.
But suppose a nation or a kingdom will not be subject to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Suppose it will not submit to the yoke of servitude to him. I, the Lord, affirm that I will punish that nation. I will use the king of Babylon to punish it with war, starvation, and disease until I have destroyed it.
"Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.
"Suppose I were to send wild animals through the land and kill its children, leaving it desolate, without travelers due to the wild animals.
"Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say, 'Let a sword pass through the land,' and I were to kill both people and animals.
"Or suppose I were to send a plague into that land, and pour out my rage on it with bloodshed, killing both people and animals.
"Suppose such a man has a violent son who sheds blood and does any of these things mentioned previously
"But suppose he in turn has a son who notices all the sins his father commits, considers them, and does not follow his father's example.
"Son of man, speak to your people, and say to them, 'Suppose I bring a sword against the land, and the people of the land take one man from their borders and make him their watchman.
But suppose the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people. Then the sword comes and takes one of their lives. He is swept away for his iniquity, but I will hold the watchman accountable for that person's death.'
Suppose I tell the righteous that he will certainly live, but he becomes confident in his righteousness and commits iniquity. None of his righteous deeds will be remembered; because of the iniquity he has committed he will die.
Suppose I say to the wicked, 'You must certainly die,' but he turns from his sin and does what is just and right.