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

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

Verse ConceptsGood WordsTwelve Tribes

They took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, "It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to 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 Yahweh spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days.

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

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 livestock we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.

Verse ConceptsSpoils Of War

We took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we didn't take from them; sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

Verse ConceptsFortified CitiesSixties

But all the livestock, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.

We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon;

Verse ConceptsMountainsBeyond JordanTwo Other Men

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 its cities, gave I to 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, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.)

Verse ConceptsPeople Naming Things

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 sunrise;

Verse ConceptsThe SunBeyond JordanTwo Other Men

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

Verse ConceptsSplitting RocksTwo Stone Tablets

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

Verse ConceptsCrushingGrindingDestruction Of Satan's WorksBurning Idolatrous Things

and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, "I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;"

If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, 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 to 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 stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.

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

He will say, "Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;

Verse ConceptsGod, The Rock

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