222 occurrences

'Told' in the Bible

And he said, Who told thee that thou art naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee not to eat?

Verse ConceptsNaked In ShameEating Forbidden FoodTelling Of People's SituationsGod Forbidding

And one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew. And he dwelt by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol, and the brother of Aner. And these were Abram's allies.

Verse ConceptsAlliancesAbraham, Characteristics OfAllegiancesOaksOthers Who FledTelling Of Happenings

And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this, neither hast thou told me of it, neither have I heard of it but to-day.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Did Not Tell

And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up and went to the place that God had told him of.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamDonkeysMorningAnimals, Types OfRising EarlySplitting WoodFirewoodThose Who Rose EarlyPreparing To TravelSaddling DonkeysTwo Other Men

And they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built the altar there, and piled the wood; and he bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

Verse ConceptsAltarsAbrahamBindingPutting In OrderBuilding AltarsFirewoodTying Up

And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she also has borne sons to thy brother Nahor:

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Testing And Victory

And the maiden ran and told these things to her mother's house.

Verse ConceptsRunning With NewsDevout mothers

And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.

Verse ConceptsTelling What People Did

And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well that they had dug, and said to him, We have found water.

Verse ConceptsFinding ThingsTelling What People Did

And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebecca. And she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, comforts himself that he will kill thee.

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleTelling What People Said

And Jacob told Rachel that he was a brother of her father, and that he was Rebecca's son; and she ran and told her father.

Verse ConceptsRunning With NewsRelatives

And it came to pass when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house; and he told Laban all these things.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingArmsKissingIndividuals RunningNamed Sisters

And Joseph dreamed a dream, and told it to his brethren, and they hated him yet the more.

Verse ConceptsDreams, Examples OfGrudgesSelf ConfidenceHating IndividualsSiblings

And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamt another dream, and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.

Verse ConceptsMoonSubjectionBowing Before JosephElevenDreams Involving Unusual ImagesThe Moon

And he told it to his father and to his brethren. And his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream which thou hast dreamt? Shall we indeed come, I and thy mother and thy brethren, to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

Verse ConceptsSalutationsBowing Before JosephWhat Is This?Immigrants

And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.

Verse ConceptsSheep ShearingTelling Of Movements

And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law has committed fornication, and behold, she is also with child by fornication. And Judah said, Bring her forth, that she may be burned.

Verse ConceptsProstitutionPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSexual Sin, Nature OfTwo To Four MonthsBurning PeopleDeath Penalty For Sexual SinTelling Of People's Situations

Then the chief of the cup-bearers told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;

Verse ConceptsMetaphorical TreesTelling Dreams

And it came to pass in the morning, that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the scribes of Egypt, and all the sages who were therein, and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none to interpret them to Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsDivination, Practiced ByMorningRestlessnessWisdom, Human NatureMagiciansWise MenKings SummoningNo One AvailableTelling Dreams

And there was there with us a Hebrew youth, a bondman of the captain of the life-guard, to whom we told them, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each he interpreted according to his dream.

Verse ConceptsTelling Dreams

and the thin ears devoured the seven good ears. And I told it to the scribes; but there was none to make it known to me.

Verse ConceptsSeven ThingsNo One AvailableTelling DreamsThin Bodies

And they came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father, and told him all that had befallen them, saying,

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Happenings

And they said, The man asked very closely after us, and after our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye a brother? And we told him according to the tenor of these words. Could we at all know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

Verse ConceptsAsking Particular QuestionsAnswering PeopleNot Knowing The FutureLiving On

And it came to pass when we came up to thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

Verse ConceptsTelling What People Said

And they told him, saying, Joseph is still alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And his heart fainted, for he did not believe them.

Verse ConceptsFaintingNot Believing PeopleLiving On

And Joseph came and told Pharaoh and said, My father and my brethren, and their sheep and their cattle, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Movements

And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick. And he took with him his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim.

Verse ConceptsDeathbedsSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, Nature OfGoing TogetherSick Individuals

And one told Jacob and said, Behold, thy son Joseph is coming to thee. And Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.

Verse ConceptsBedsGay Marriage

And Moses told Aaron all the words of Jehovah who had sent him, and all the signs that he had commanded him.

Verse ConceptsSigns From GodTelling Of God

And Jehovah made Pharaoh's heart stubborn, and he did not hearken to them, as Jehovah had told Moses.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Of The WillGod Hardening People

And it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his bondmen was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from our service?

Verse ConceptsPeople Changing Their MindsIsrael FleeingTelling Of Movements

Is not this what we told thee in Egypt, when we said, Let us alone, and we will serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.

Verse ConceptsDying In The WildernessPossibility Of DeathLeave Us AloneServing GroupsDying In The Desert slaveryNot Being Alone

And it came to pass on the sixth day, that they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one; and all the princes of the assembly came and told Moses.

Verse ConceptsGathering FoodDouble PortionsThe Sixth Day Of The WeekDay 6

And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake; all the trouble that had befallen them on the way, and how Jehovah had delivered them.

Verse ConceptsTravelling With GodSuffering, HardshipHard TasksTelling Of GodWhy God Did Things

And Jehovah said to Moses, Lo, I will come to thee in the cloud's thick darkness, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee also for ever. And Moses told the words of the people to Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsTheophanyEternal LoyaltyHearing God's VoiceBelieving ProphetsTelling What People Said

So Moses went down to the people, and told them.

Verse ConceptsMan Going Down

And Moses came and told the people all the words of Jehovah, and all the judgments; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words that Jehovah has said will we do!

Verse ConceptsAgreement, Before GodAtonement, in OTAgreeing For GoodResponseTheocracyVoicesWord Of GodApprovalTelling What People SaidWe ObeyAgreeing With One Another

And now go, lead the people whither I have told thee: behold, my Angel shall go before thee; but in the day of my visiting I will visit their sin upon them.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, From Godly PeopleGuidance, God's Promises OfAngels Going At God's Bidding

And Moses told it to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsSpeaking The Word God Gives

And Moses went out and told the people the words of Jehovah; and he gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tent.

Verse ConceptsSeventies

And there ran a youth, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Running

And they told him, and said, We came to the land to which thou didst send us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfAbundance, MaterialFoodLand, Spiritual Aspects OfMilkMilk And Honey

And Moses told all these sayings to all the children of Israel; then the people mourned greatly.

Verse ConceptsUnhappinessAngst

And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses.

Verse ConceptsGod's Orders

Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; Jehovah is his inheritance, according as Jehovah thy God told him.

Verse ConceptsGod Is My PortionNo Earthly Inheritance

and the sign or the wonder come to pass that he told unto thee, when he said, Let us go after other gods, whom thou hast not known, and let us serve them,

Verse ConceptsUnknown GodsDifferent GodsEncouraged To Serve Foreign godsMan's Words FulfilledFake Friends

and it be told thee, and thou hearest of it; then thou shalt make thorough inquiry, and if it be truth and the thing be certain, that this abomination hath been wrought in Israel,

Verse ConceptsInvestigating

and Jehovah hath accepted thee this day to be a people of possession to him, as he hath told thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments,

Verse ConceptsMonogamyPeople Of God, In OtTreasureSpiritual Adoption

And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, men have come hither to-night from the children of Israel to search out the land.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Movements

And they answered Joshua and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants how that Jehovah thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; and we feared greatly for our lives because of you, and did this thing.

Verse ConceptsAnxiety, Examples Of

And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings have been found, hid in the cave at Makkedah.

Verse ConceptsFive People

When Sis'era was told that Barak the son of Abin'o-am had gone up to Mount Tabor,

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Movements

So Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had told him; but because he was too afraid of his family and the men of the town to do it by day, he did it by night.

Verse ConceptsTen PeopleDuring One NightFearing Other Peoplegideon

When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Ger'izim, and cried aloud and said to them, "Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To People!Will God Pay Attention?

And the men of Shechem put men in ambush against him on the mountain tops, and they robbed all who passed by them along that way; and it was told Abim'elech.

Verse ConceptsAmbushRobbing PeopleTelling Of Happenings

On the following day the men went out into the fields. And Abim'elech was told.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Movements

Abim'elech was told that all the people of the Tower of Shechem were gathered together.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Movements

Then the woman came and told her husband, "A man of God came to me, and his countenance was like the countenance of the angel of God, very terrible; I did not ask him whence he was, and he did not tell me his name;

Verse ConceptsThe Angel Of GodNot Asking OthersWhere From?What Is God's Name?Man Of God

And the woman ran in haste and told her husband, "Behold, the man who came to me the other day has appeared to me."

Verse ConceptsGood Wives ExamplesRunning With News

Then he came up, and told his father and mother, "I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah; now get her for me as my wife."

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Customs ConcerningWedding FeastsLeaving Parents For Spouse

And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, "You only hate me, you do not love me; you have put a riddle to my countrymen, and you have not told me what it is." And he said to her, "Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?"

Verse ConceptsCryingPeople Mourning CatastropheThose Who Did Not TellHating Individuals

She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted; and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her countrymen.

Verse ConceptsYielding To TemptationThe Seventh Day Of The WeekSeven DaysGiving InformationDay 7People Mourning Catastrophenagging

And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he went down to Ash'kelon and killed thirty men of the town, and took their spoil and gave the festal garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father's house.

Verse ConceptsThirtyPeople Giving ClothesAngry PeopleNumbers Of Foreigners KilledGifts Of Supernatural Strengthcrusades

The Gazites were told, "Samson has come here," and they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, "Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him."

Verse ConceptsDawnWaitingAmbushActing All NightAttempting To Kill Specific People

And Deli'lah said to Samson, "Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies; please tell me how you might be bound."

Verse ConceptsLying, Examples OfIndividuals Who LiedTying Up

And Deli'lah said to Samson, "Until now you have mocked me, and told me lies; tell me how you might be bound." And he said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and make it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

Verse ConceptsSpinning And WeavingTying Updreadlocks

And she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me wherein your great strength lies."

Verse ConceptsCommunicating Three TimesIndividuals Who LiedMen And Women Who Loved

And he told her all his mind, and said to her, "A razor has never come upon my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I be shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

Verse ConceptsAbstinenceAsceticism, People PracticingBeardsHairsHeadsKnivesShavingYielding To TemptationSeparated To GodLong HairFrom The WombHair

When Deli'lah saw that he had told her all his mind, she sent and called the lords of the Philistines, saying, "Come up this once, for he has told me all his mind." Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hands.

Verse ConceptsBetrayalRulersBetrayal, Example Of

And her mother-in-law said to her, Where hast thou gleaned to-day? and where hast thou wrought? Blessed be he that did regard thee! And she told her mother-in-law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought to-day is Boaz.

Verse ConceptsWhere Are Things?May God Bless!Men Working

And she came to her mother-in-law; and she said, Who art thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.

Verse ConceptsWhat Manner?

And Samuel told him all the words, and kept nothing back from him. And he said, It is Jehovah: let him do what is good in his sight.

Verse ConceptsAfflicted Saints, Examples OfAfflicted SaintsResignationTelling Of God

And Eli heard the noise of the crying, and said, What is the noise of this tumult? And the man came hastily, and told Eli.

Verse ConceptsMeaning

And Saul said to his uncle, He told us for certain that the asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel had spoken, he told him not.

Verse ConceptsFinding ThingsThose Who Did Not Tell

And Samuel told the people the right of the kingdom, and wrote it in the book, and laid it before Jehovah. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.

Verse ConceptsExplanationsBooksBook of the Law

And the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and told these words in the ears of the people. And all the people lifted up their voice and wept.

Verse ConceptsPeople Mourning Catastrophe

And they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against Jehovah, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have acted perversely: roll me now a great stone.

Verse ConceptsUnfaithfulness, To GodRollingForbidden FoodGod's People SinningEating Meat

And Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him and said, With the end of the staff which is in my hand I tasted a little honey, and behold, I must die!

Verse ConceptsSin Confessed

And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set him up a monument, and has turned about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.

Verse ConceptsRising Early, Examples OfRising EarlyThose Who Rose Early

And the people told him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that smites him.

Verse ConceptsAnswering People

And Michal Saul's daughter loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing was right in his sight.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Customs ConcerningMarriage, Purpose OfMen And Women Who Lovedsaul

And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner did David speak.

Verse ConceptsTelling What People Saidsaul

And his servants told David these words; and the thing was right in David's sight to be the king's son-in-law. And the days were not expired,

But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David. And Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill thee; and now, I pray thee, take heed to thyself in the morning, and abide in a secret place and hide thyself;

Verse ConceptsHiding From Peoplesaul

And Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning; and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to-night, to-morrow thou wilt be put to death.

Verse ConceptsDawnWatchfulness, Of BelieversDuring One Night

And David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.

Verse ConceptsEscaping From PeopleTelling Of Happenings

And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth by Ramah.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of MovementsSchool

And it was told Saul, and he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.

Verse ConceptsCommunicating Three Times

And they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshing-floors.

Verse ConceptsThreshing FloorTaking Possessions

And it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. Then Saul said, God has cast him off into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a city that has gates and bars.

Verse ConceptsGatesTownShutting GatesGiven Into One's HandsTelling Of Movements

Then David and his men, about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, and he forbore to go forth.

Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsExamples Of EscapingSix To Seven HundredEscaping From PeopleSix Hundred And AboveTelling Of Movements

Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his track is, who has seen him there; for it is told me that he deals very subtilly.

Verse ConceptsThose Looking For People

And Saul and his men went to seek him. And they told David; and he came down from the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And Saul heard that, and he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

Verse ConceptsRocksPursuingStones For ProtectionTelling Of Movements

And it came to pass when Saul had returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi.

Verse ConceptsDeserts, SpecificTelling Of Movementssaul

And one of Nabal's young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to bless our master; and he has insulted them.

Verse ConceptsGreetingsInsulting Other PeopleTelling Of Happenings

And Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was drunken to excess; so she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

Verse ConceptsDawnGluttonyFeastingExcessdrinking, abstention fromBanquets, ActivitiesDrunkenness, Examples OfMerrinessRevelryDrunk IndividualsThose Who Did Not Tell

And it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things; and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanHuman EmotionSick Individuals

And it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath; and he sought no more for him.

Verse ConceptsNot Seeking PeopleTelling Of Movements

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