Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become the wife of your master’s son, just as the Lord has decided.”

So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me, my son! Just obey me! Go and get them for me!”

So turn and leave in peace. You must not do anything that the leaders of the Philistines consider improper!”

One of them said, “Please come along with your servants.” He replied, “All right, I’ll come.”

and you, O Lord, demonstrate loyal love. For you repay men for what they do.

For the music director; a psalm of David, a song. Praise awaits you, O God, in Zion. Vows made to you are fulfilled.

They will be called, “The Holy People, the Ones Protected by the Lord.” You will be called, “Sought After, City Not Abandoned.”

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Here is your wife! Take her and go!”

You must by all means return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just deed by the Lord your God.

Jephthah sent messengers to the Ammonite king, saying, “Why have you come against me to attack my land?”

Then the king said to Joab, “All right! I will do this thing! Go and bring back the young man Absalom!

She asked Elijah, “Why, prophet, have you come to me to confront me with my sin and kill my son?”

She saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Lead on. Do not stop unless I say so.”

Now Elisha the prophet summoned a member of the prophetic guild and told him, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take this container of olive oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

O Lord our God, all this wealth, which we have collected to build a temple for you to honor your holy name, comes from you; it all belongs to you.

He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you see in front of you – eat this scroll – and then go and speak to the house of Israel.”

On that day I will make Israel powerful, and I will give you the right to be heard among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

God said, “Take your son – your only son, whom you love, Isaac – and go to the land of Moriah! Offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will indicate to you.”

So Samson’s bride cried on his shoulder and said, “You must hate me; you do not love me! You told the young men a riddle, but you have not told me the solution.” He said to her, “Look, I have not even told my father or mother. Do you really expect me to tell you?”

They said to him, “Shut up! Put your hand over your mouth and come with us! You can be our adviser and priest. Wouldn’t it be better to be a priest for a whole Israelite tribe than for just one man’s family?”