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2,685 verses for Imperative
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Imperative — A direct command (“write!”).
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- 1 Kings
- 1 Kings 17:11 לִֽקְחִי As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.
- 1 Kings 17:13 בֹּ֖אִי עֲשִׂ֣י עֲשִׂי Elijah said to her, Don't be afraid; go and do as you have said; but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it forth to me, and afterward make for you and for your son.
- 1 Kings 17:19 תְּנִֽי He said to her, Give me your son. He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the chamber, where he abode, and laid him on his own bed.
- 1 Kings 17:23 רְאִ֖י Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, Behold, your son lives.
- 1 Kings 18:1 הֵרָאֵ֣ה לֵ֚ךְ It happened after many days, that the word of Yahweh came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.
- 1 Kings 18:5 לֵ֤ךְ Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks: peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.
- 1 Kings 18:8 לֵ֛ךְ אֱמֹ֥ר He answered him, It is I: go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here].
- 1 Kings 18:11 לֵ֛ךְ אֱמֹ֥ר Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here].
- 1 Kings 18:14 לֵ֛ךְ אֱמֹ֥ר Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here]; and he will kill me.
- 1 Kings 18:19 שְׁלַ֨ח קְבֹ֥ץ Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred fifty, and the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, who eat at Jezebel's table.
- 1 Kings 18:21 לְכ֣וּ Elijah came near to all the people, and said, "How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him." The people answered him not a word.
- 1 Kings 18:25 וַ/עֲשׂ֣וּ וְ/קִרְאוּ֙ בַּחֲר֨וּ Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it."
- 1 Kings 18:26 עֲנֵ֔/נוּ They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any who answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.
- 1 Kings 18:27 קִרְא֤וּ It happened at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleeps and must be awakened.
- 1 Kings 18:30 גְּשׁ֣וּ Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me; and all the people came near to him. He repaired the altar of Yahweh that was thrown down.
- 1 Kings 18:33 וְ/יִֽצְק֥וּ מִלְא֨וּ He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood.
- 1 Kings 18:34 שַׁלֵּ֖שׁוּ שְׁנוּ֙ He said, Do it the second time; and they did it the second time. He said, Do it the third time; and they did it the third time.
- 1 Kings 18:37 עֲנֵ֤/נִי עֲנֵ֔/נִי Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are God, and [that] you have turned their heart back again.
- 1 Kings 18:40 תִּפְשׂ֣וּ and Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal; don't let one of them escape. They took them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.
- 1 Kings 18:41 וּ/שְׁתֵ֑ה עֲלֵ֖ה אֱכֹ֣ל Elijah said to Ahab, Get you up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.
- 1 Kings 18:43 הַבֵּ֣ט עֲלֵֽה שֻׁ֖ב He said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. He went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. He said, Go again seven times.
- 1 Kings 18:44 וָ/רֵ֔ד עֲלֵ֨ה אֱמֹ֤ר אֱסֹ֣ר It happened at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold, a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea." He said, Go up, tell Ahab, Make ready [your chariot], and get you down, that the rain not stop you.
- 1 Kings 19:4 קַ֣ח But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough; now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
- 1 Kings 19:5 ק֥וּם אֱכֽוֹל He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and, behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.
- 1 Kings 19:7 ק֣וּם אֱכֹ֑ל The angel of Yahweh came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.
- 1 Kings 19:11 צֵ֣א He said, Go forth, and stand on the mountain before Yahweh. Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake:
- 1 Kings 19:15 לֵ֛ךְ שׁ֥וּב Yahweh said to him, Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when you come, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria;
- 1 Kings 19:20 לֵ֣ךְ שׁ֔וּב He left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray you, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you. He said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to you?
- 1 Kings 20:7 וּ/רְא֔וּ דְּעֽוּ Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Please notice how this man seeks mischief: for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn't deny him.
- 1 Kings 20:9 אִמְר֞וּ Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that you did send for to your servant at the first I will do; but this thing I may not do. The messengers departed, and brought him word again.
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