When Jacob finished giving these instructions to his sons, he pulled his feet up onto the bed, breathed his last breath, and went to his people.

by serving other gods and worshiping them – the sun, moon, or any other heavenly bodies which I have not permitted you to worship.

As the Lord had instructed, they gave him the city he requested – Timnath Serah in the Ephraimite hill country. He built up the city and lived in it.

You have not abandoned your fellow Israelites this entire time, right up to this very day. You have completed the task given you by the Lord your God.

David ordered the resident foreigners in the land of Israel to be called together. He appointed some of them to be stonecutters to chisel stones for the building of God’s temple.

I then put in charge over Jerusalem my brother Hanani and Hananiah the chief of the citadel, for he was a faithful man and feared God more than many do.

So they went, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and did just as the Lord had told them; and the Lord had respect for Job.

To obey the Lord is the fundamental principle for wise living; all who carry out his precepts acquire good moral insight. He will receive praise forever.

Charge them to give their masters a message from me. Tell them, ‘The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says to give your masters this message.

So Baruch son of Neriah did exactly what the prophet Jeremiah had told him to do. He read what the Lord had said from the scroll in the temple of the Lord.

For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’

Jesus ordered them not to tell anything. But as much as he ordered them not to do this, they proclaimed it all the more.

until the day he was taken up to heaven, after he had given orders by the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

Those who accompanied Paul escorted him as far as Athens, and after receiving an order for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left.

He put his brother Abishai in charge of the rest of the army and they were deployed against the Ammonites.

He put his brother Abishai in charge of the rest of the army and they were deployed against the Ammonites.

For he will order his angels to protect you in all you do.

Praise the Lord, you angels of his, you powerful warriors who carry out his decrees and obey his orders!

“‘Be ready and stay ready, you and all your companies assembled around you, and be a guard for them.

Ephraim will be oppressed, crushed under judgment, because he was determined to pursue worthless idols.