579 verses contain “Commanded” (in the KJV: 536, in the BSB: 313) — showing 501–579
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For thou hast commanded out of the parts of the body, that is to say, out of the breasts, milk to be given, which is the fruit of the breasts,
So I went my way into the field which is called Ardath, like as he commanded me; and there I sat among the flowers, and did eat of the herbs of the field, and the meat of the same satisfied me.
Therefore I commanded thee to go into the field, where no foundation of any building was.
And so shall the Highest
shew thee visions of the high things, which the most High will do unto them that dwell upon the earth in the last days. So I
slept that night and another, like as he
commanded me.
So the people went their way into the city, like as I commanded them:
But I remained still in the field seven days, as the angel commanded me; and did eat only in those days of the flowers of the field, and had my meat of the herbs
And told him many
wondrous things, and shewed him the secrets of the times, and the end; and
commanded him, saying,
Behold, Lord, I will go, as thou hast
commanded me, and reprove the people which are present: but they that shall be born afterward, who shall
admonish them? thus the world is set in darkness, and they that dwell therein are without light.
Then went I forth, as he commanded, and gathered all the people together, and said,
Then was the land, even the land of
Sion, parted among you by lot: but your fathers, and ye
yourselves, have done unrighteousness, and have not kept the ways which the Highest
commanded you.
So I took the five men, as he commanded me, and we went into the field, and remained there.
And the third I gave unto them to whom it was meet, as Debora my father’s mother had
commanded me, because I was left an
orphan by my father.
Tobias then answered and said, Father, I will do all things which thou hast commanded me:
So the young man did as the angel
commanded him; and when they had
roasted the fish, they did eat it: then they both went on their way, till they drew near to Ecbatane.
And take thou
heed that thou
transgress none of the commandments of thy lord, but
accomplish them fully, as I have
commanded thee, and
defer not to do them.
And he
mustered the chosen men for the battle, as his lord had
commanded him, unto an hundred and twenty thousand, and twelve thousand archers on
horseback;
And the children of Israel did as Joacim the high priest had commanded them, with the ancients of all the people of Israel, which dwelt at Jerusalem.
Then their God
commanded them to depart from the place where they
sojourned, and to go into the land of Chanaan: where they dwelt, and were increased with gold and silver, and with very much cattle.
Then Holofernes commanded his servants, that waited in his tent, to take Achior, and bring him to Bethulia, and deliver him into the hands of the children of Israel.
The next day Holofernes
commanded all his army, and all his people which were come to take his part, that they should remove their camp against Bethulia, to take
aforehand the ascents of the hill country, and to make war against the children of Israel.
And she said unto them, Command the gates of the city to be opened unto me, that I may go forth to
accomplish the things
whereof ye have spoken with me. So they
commanded the young men to open unto her, as she had spoken.
Then he
commanded to bring her in where his plate was set; and
bade that they should prepare for her of his own meats, and that she should drink of his own wine.
Then Holofernes commanded his guard that they should not stay her: thus she abode in the camp three days, and went out in the night into the valley of Bethulia, and washed herself in a fountain of water by the camp.
Now
Judith had
commanded her
maid to stand without her
bedchamber, and to wait for her. coming forth, as she did daily: for she said she would go forth to her prayers, and she spake to Bagoas according to the same purpose.
So the king commanded, Mardocheus to serve in the court, and for this he rewarded him.
Therefore have we
commanded, that all they that are
signified in writing unto you by Aman, who is ordained over the affairs, and is next unto us, shall all, with their wives and children, be utterly destroyed by the sword of their enemies, without all mercy and
pity, the
fourteenth day of the
twelfth month
Adar of this present year:
Thou hast commanded me to build a temple upon thy holy mount, and an altar in the city wherein thou dwellest, a resemblance of the holy tabernacle, which thou hast prepared from the beginning.
But what is
commanded thee, think
thereupon with reverence, for it is not needful for thee to see with thine eyes the things that are in secret.
Fear the Lord, and honor the priest; and give him his portion, as it is
commanded thee; the firstfruits, and the
trespass offering, and the gift of the shoulders, and the sacrifice of
sanctification, and the firstfruits of the holy things.
He hath commanded no man to do wickedly, neither hath he given any man licence to sin.
All these things are the book of the covenant of the most high God, even the law which Moses
commanded for an
heritage unto the congregations of Jacob.
For Ezekias had done the thing that pleased the Lord, and was strong in the ways of David his father, as Esay the prophet, who was great and faithful in his vision, had commanded him.
Wherefore the Lord watched over us for evil, and the Lord hath brought it upon us: for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he hath commanded us.
A copy of an epistle, which Jeremy sent unto them which were to be led
captives into Babylon by the king of the Babylonians, to
certify them, as it was
commanded him of God.
And the fire sent from above to
consume hills and woods doeth as it is
commanded: but these are like unto them neither in
shew nor power.
In all things have we
trespassed, and not obeyed thy commandments, nor kept them, neither done as thou hast
commanded us, that it might go well with us.
And they did as she
bade them, and shut the garden doors, and went out themselves at privy doors to
fetch the things that she had
commanded them: but they saw not the elders, because they were
hid.
And these wicked men commanded to uncover her face, (for she was covered) that they might be filled with her beauty.
So he put him aside, and
commanded to bring the other, and said unto him, O thou seed of Chanaan, and not of Juda, beauty hath
deceived thee, and
lust hath
perverted thine heart.
So when they were gone forth, the king set meats before
Bel. Now Daniel had
commanded his servants to bring ashes, and those they
strewed throughout all the temple in the presence of the king alone: then went they out, and shut the door, and sealed it with the king’s
signet, and so departed.
And with them he sent forty thousand
footmen, and seven thousand
horsemen, to go into the land of Juda, and to destroy it, as the king
commanded.
But as for such as were building houses, or had
betrothed wives, or were planting vineyards, or were fearful, those he
commanded that they should return, every man to his own house, according to the law.
Who, when he heard thereof, was confounded and discouraged, because neither such things as he would were done unto Israel, nor such things as the king commanded him were come to pass.
Wherefore
Judas commanded a
proclamation to be made throughout the host, that every man should pitch his tent in the place where he was.
And him he sent with that wicked Alcimus, whom he made high priest, and
commanded that he should take
vengeance of the children of Israel.
Moreover in the hundred fifty and third year, in the second month, Alcimus commanded that the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary should be pulled down; he pulled down also the works of the prophets
Wherefore he gave him authority to gather together an host, and to provide weapons, that he might aid him in battle: he commanded also that the hostages that were in the tower should be delivered him.
And he
commanded the workmen to build the walls and the mount
Sion and about with square stones for
fortification; and they did so.
And of them some shall be placed in the king’s strong holds, of whom also some shall be set over the affairs of the kingdom, which are of trust: and I will that their overseers and governors be of themselves, and that they live after their own laws, even as the king hath
commanded in the land of
Judea.
Yea more than that, the king
commanded to take off his garments, and
clothe him in purple: and they did so.
But the people stood still, as
Jonathan had
commanded them: and so the enemies’ horses were
tired.
Whereupon he took his journey into Spain in peaceable manner, so as they of the cities opened unto him, and met him: for king Alexander had
commanded them so to do, because he was his brother in law.
Nevertheless
Jonathan, when he heard this,
commanded to
besiege it still: and he chose certain of the elders of Israel and the priests, and put himself in
peril;
We
commanded them also to go unto you, and to
salute and to deliver you our letters concerning the renewing of our
brotherhood.
Wherefore so soon as the sun was down,
Jonathan commanded his men to watch, and to be in arms, that all the night long they might be ready to fight: also he sent forth centinels round about the host.
But received him honourably, and
commended him unto all his friends, and gave him gifts, and
commanded his men of war to be as
obedient unto him, as to himself.
So they commanded that this writing should be put in tables of brass, and that they should be set up within the compass of the sanctuary in a conspicuous place;
And
commanded him to remove his host toward
Judea; also he
commanded him to build up Cedron, and to
fortify the gates, and to war against the people; but as for the king himself, he pursued Tryphon.
And when he had built up Cedrou, he set
horsemen there, and an host of
footmen, to the end that issuing out they might make outroads upon the ways of
Judea, as the king had
commanded him.
Then
commanded he them to draw it up, and to bring it; and when the sacrifices were laid on, Neemias
commanded the priests to
sprinkle the wood and the things laid
thereupon with the water.
Now when the sacrifice was consumed, Neemias commanded the water that was left to be poured on the great stones.
It is also found in the records, that Jeremy the prophet
commanded them that were carried away to take of the fire, as it hath been
signified:
It was also contained in the same writing, that the prophet, being
warned of God,
commanded the tabernacle and the ark to go with him, as he went forth into the mountain, where Moses
climbed up, and saw the
heritage of God.
And
commanded his men of war not to
spare such as they met, and to
slay such as went up upon the houses.
Who coming to Jerusalem, and pretending peace, did
forbear till the holy day of the sabbath, when taking the Jews keeping holy day, he
commanded his men to arm themselves.
But they that had the charge of that wicked feast, for the old acquaintance they had with the man, taking him aside,
besought him to bring flesh of his own provision, such as was lawful for him to use, and make as if he did eat of the flesh taken from the sacrifice
commanded by the king;
Then the king, being in a
rage,
commanded pans and caldrons to be made hot:
Which
forthwith being heated, he
commanded to cut out the tongue of him that spake first, and to cut off the utmost parts of his body, the rest of his brethren and his mother looking on.
Now when he was thus
maimed in all his members, he
commanded him being yet alive to be brought to the fire, and to be
fried in the pan: and as the vapour of the pan was for a good space
dispersed, they
exhorted one another with the mother to die
manfully, saying thus,
Then swelling with anger. he thought to
avenge upon the Jews the disgrace done unto him by those that made him
flee. Therefore
commanded he his chariotman to drive without ceasing, and to
dispatch the journey, the judgment of God now following him. For he had spoken proudly in this sort, That he would come to Jerusalem and make it a common
burying place of the Jews.
When
Judas heard of this cruelty done unto his countrymen, he
commanded those that were with him to make them ready.
But the King of kings moved
Antiochus’ mind against this wicked
wretch, and
Lysias informed the king that this man was the cause of all mischief, so that the king
commanded to bring him unto
Berea, and to put him to death, as the manner is in that place.
Which things when
Judas perceived, he
commanded the multitude to call upon the Lord night and day, that if ever at any other time, he would now also help them, being at the point to be put from their law, from their country, and from the holy temple:
But the other, knowing that he was notably prevented by
Judas’ policy, came into the great and holy temple, and
commanded the priests, that were offering their usual sacrifices, to deliver him the man.
Then the most
ungracious wretch demanded, if there were a Mighty one in heaven, that had
commanded the sabbath day to be kept.
And when they said, There is in heaven a living Lord, and mighty, who commanded the seventh day to be kept:
And
Judas, who was ever the chief defender of the citizens both in body and mind, and who continued his love toward his countrymen all his life,
commanded to strike off Nicanor’s head, and his hand with his shoulder, and bring them to Jerusalem.
And when he had cut out the tongue of that ungodly Nicanor, he
commanded that they should give it by pieces unto the fowls, and
hang up the reward of his madness before the temple.