19 occurrences

'Took' in the Bible

So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.

Verse ConceptsCommanderWisdom, Human ImportanceHuman Authority, Nature OfTen PeopleFiftiesOne HundredA Thousand People

And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:

Verse ConceptsGood WordsTwelve Tribes

And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which Jehovah our God giveth unto us.

Verse ConceptsLand ProducingGiving Good ThingsGod's Plan For UsGiving Back

Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Jehovah spake unto me; and we compassed mount Seir many days.

Verse ConceptsComing To The Red SeaGod Led Them Through The WildernessStaying A Long TimeFalling

And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:

Verse ConceptsAnnihilationNo SurvivorsExtermination

only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.

Verse ConceptsSpoils Of War

And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not from them; threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

Verse ConceptsFortified CitiesSixties

But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey unto ourselves.

And we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon unto mount Hermon;

Verse ConceptsMountainsBeyond JordanTwo Other Men

And this land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites:

Verse ConceptsHillsHalf Of DistrictsArnonReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth-jair, unto this day.)

Verse ConceptsPeople Naming Things

And they took his land in possession, and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising;

Verse ConceptsThe SunBeyond JordanTwo Other Men

And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

Verse ConceptsSplitting RocksTwo Stone Tablets

And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

Verse ConceptsCrushingGrindingDestruction Of Satan's WorksBurning Idolatrous Things

and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity;

And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;

Verse ConceptsDivorce Permitted

and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.

Verse ConceptsFractions, One HalfReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

As an eagle that stirreth up her nest, That fluttereth over her young, He spread abroad his wings, he took them, He bare them on his pinions.

Verse ConceptsNestsDivine LeadingMothers, As A SymbolWingsGod's WingsGod Carrying PeopleEaglesGod Urgingphotographysoaring

And he will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;

Verse ConceptsGod, The Rock

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