AMBASSADORS

Passages on this topic · 46

• Numbers 20:14

  Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: “Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the travail that has happened to us;

• Numbers 21:21

  Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

• Joshua 9:4

  they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wine skins,

• Judges 11:12

  Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, “What have you to do with me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”

• Judges 11:13

  The king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore restore that territory again peaceably.”

• Judges 11:14

  Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon;

• Judges 11:15

  and he said to him, “Thus says Jephthah: Israel didn’t take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon,

• Judges 11:16

  but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;

• Judges 11:17

  then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let me pass through your land;’ but the king of Edom didn’t listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab; but he would not: and Israel stayed in Kadesh.

• Judges 11:18

  Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they didn’t come within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.

• Judges 11:19

  Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land to my place.’

• Judges 11:20

  But Sihon didn’t trust Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

• Judges 11:21

  Yahweh, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them. So Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.

• Judges 11:22

  They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.

• Judges 11:23

  So now Yahweh, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?

• Judges 11:24

  Won’t you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever Yahweh our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.

• Judges 11:25

  Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?

• Judges 11:26

  While Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of the Arnon, three hundred years; why didn’t you recover them within that time?

• Judges 11:27

  I therefore have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. May Yahweh the Judge be judge today between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.”

• Judges 11:28

  However the king of the children of Ammon didn’t listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

• 2 Samuel 5:11

  Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, with cedar trees, carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.

• 1 Kings 5:1

  Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father, and Hiram had always loved David.

• 1 Kings 20:2

  He sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said to him, “Thus says Ben Hadad,

• 1 Kings 20:3

  ‘Your silver and your gold is mine. Your wives also and your children, even the best, are mine.’”

• 1 Kings 20:4

  The king of Israel answered, “It is according to your saying, my lord, O king. I am yours, and all that I have.”

• 1 Kings 20:5

  The messengers came again, and said, “Ben Hadad says, ‘I sent indeed to you, saying, “You shall deliver me your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your children;

• 1 Kings 20:6

  but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they will search your house, and the houses of your servants; whatever is pleasant in your eyes, they will put it in their hand, and take it away.”’”

• 2 Kings 14:8

  Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.”

• 2 Kings 16:7

  So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.”

• 2 Kings 17:4

  The king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria seized him, and bound him in prison.

• 2 Kings 19:9

  When he heard it said of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “Behold, he has come out to fight against you, he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,

• 2 Kings 20:12

  At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

• 2 Chronicles 32:31

  However concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

• Job 33:23

  “If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;

• Proverbs 13:17

  A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.

• Isaiah 18:2

  that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!”

• Isaiah 30:4

  For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.

• Isaiah 33:7

  Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.

• Isaiah 36:11

  Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and don’t speak to us in the Jews’ language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

• Isaiah 39:1

  At that time, Merodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and had recovered.

• Isaiah 39:2

  Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.

• Ezekiel 17:15

  But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the covenant, and still escape?

• Obadiah 1:1

  The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle.

• Luke 14:32

  Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.

• 2 Corinthians 5:20

  We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

• Ephesians 6:20

  for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.