16 occurrences

'Taken' in the Bible

And they gave up the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had taken them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about them, worshipping them and moving the Lord to wrath.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentRenunciationBowing To False GodsDifferent GodsGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had taken his oath it would be; and things became very hard for them.

Verse ConceptsdefeatMiseryGod OpposingGod Harmed Them

So Gideon and the three hundred men who were with him came to the outer line of tents, at the start of the middle watch, when the watchmen had only then taken their stations; and the horns were sounded and the vessels broken.

Verse ConceptsBeginningNightOne Hundredgideon

Then Gideon said to them, I have a request to make to you; let every man give me the ear-rings he has taken. (For they had gold ear-rings, because they were Ishmaelites.)

Verse ConceptsCustomEarringsOrnamentsGold Transferred

And they gave answer, We will gladly give them. So they put down a robe, every man dropping into it the ear-rings he had taken.

Verse ConceptsDividing The Spoil

So now the Lord, the God of Israel, has taken away their land from the Amorites and given it to his people Israel; are you then to have it?

Verse ConceptsThe Lord Drove Them Out

But his wife said to him, If the Lord was purposing our death, he would not have taken our burned offering and our meal offering, or have given us such orders about the child.

Verse ConceptsGod KillingMaking Cereal Offerings And LibationsGod's Things RevealedGod Killing Individuals

And he took the honey in his hand, and went on, tasting it on the way; and when he came to his father and mother he gave some to them; but did not say that he had taken the honey from the body of the lion.

Verse ConceptsFood DecayingThose Who Did Not Tell

And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver which were taken from you, about which you took an oath and said in my hearing, I have given this silver to the Lord from my hand for myself, to make a pictured image and a metal image: see, I have the silver, for I took it: so now I will give it back to you. And his mother said, May the blessing of the Lord be on my son.

Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Examples OfUnder The BanMay God Bless!Money Blessingsmums

Crying out to them. And the Danites, turning round, said to Micah, What is your trouble, that you have taken up arms?

Verse ConceptsWhat Is The Matter?

And he said, You have taken my gods which I made, and my priest, and have gone away; what is there for me now? Why then do you say to me, What is your trouble?

Verse ConceptsWhat Is The Matter?Robbing GodsUnnamed Priests

(And the children of Dan put up the pictured image for themselves; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the tribe of the Danites till the day when the ark was taken prisoner.)

Verse ConceptsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesExile In Prospect

Now the men of Israel had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, Not one of us will give his daughter as a wife to Benjamin.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersWives For BenjaminPeople Bound By Oaths

And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel, who did not come up to the Lord at the meeting of all Israel? For they had taken a great oath that whoever did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord was to be put to death.

Verse ConceptsPeople Bound By Oaths

What are we to do about wives for those who are still living? For we have taken an oath by the Lord that we will not give them our daughters for wives.

Verse ConceptsWives For Benjamin

Seeing that we may not give them our daughters as wives? For the children of Israel had taken an oath, saying, Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.

Verse ConceptsCursing The Ungodly

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