16 occurrences

'Took' in the Bible

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

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

And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a 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 the LORD our God doth give us.

Verse ConceptsLand ProducingGiving Good ThingsGod's Plan For UsGiving Back

Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD 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 the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:

Verse ConceptsAnnihilationNo SurvivorsExtermination

Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.

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 to ourselves.

And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;

Verse ConceptsMountainsBeyond JordanTwo Other Men

Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.

Verse ConceptsPeople Naming Things

And I took 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, and ground it very small, even until it was as small 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 the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.

And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:

And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which 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 Manasseh.

Verse ConceptsFractions, One HalfReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

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