Now King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had issued orders concerning Jeremiah. He had passed them on through Nebuzaradan, the captain of his royal guard, ¹ 

Then the king told the woman, “Go to your home. I will give instructions concerning your situation.” ¹ 

Now when Jesus saw a large crowd ¹  around him, he gave orders to go to the other side of the lake. ² 

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees ¹  had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus ²  was should report it, so that they could arrest ³  him.) ⁴ 

Joshua instructed ¹  the leaders of the people:

For they were under royal orders ¹  which determined their activity day by day. ² 

So the soldiers, in accordance with their orders, ¹  took ²  Paul and brought him to Antipatris ³  during the night.

O fire and hail, snow and clouds, ¹  O stormy wind that carries out his orders, ² 

Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram, ¹  and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.

So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the families of the Israelite tribes.

When you capture the city, set it ¹  on fire. Do as the Lord says! See, I have given you orders.” ² 

So ¹  the king sent an executioner at once to bring John’s ²  head, and he went and beheaded John in prison.

Then Joseph gave orders to fill ¹  their bags with grain, to return each man’s money to his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. His orders were carried out. ² 

The king gave this order to Joab, Abishai, and Ittai: “For my sake deal gently with the young man Absalom.” Now the entire army was listening when the king gave all the leaders this order concerning Absalom.

But when the matter came to the king’s attention, the king ¹  gave written orders that Haman’s ²  evil intentions that he had devised against the Jews should fall on his own head. He and his sons were hanged on the gallows.

saying, “We gave ¹  you strict orders ²  not to teach in this name. ³  Look, ⁴  you have filled Jerusalem ⁵  with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man’s blood ⁶  on us!”

The Philistines left ¹  their idols ²  there, so David ordered that they be burned.

Receiving such orders, he threw them in the inner cell ¹  and fastened their feet in the stocks. ² 

He told ¹  them, “Look, set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city; all of you be ready!

Then I gave instructions that the storerooms should be purified, and I brought back the equipment ¹  of the temple of God, along with the grain offering and the incense.