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They said to him, “If today you will obey and serve this people, and yield to their petition, and if you will speak lenient words to them, they will be your servants for all days.” (1 Kings 12, 7)
Then he again wrote letters to them a second time, saying: “If you are mine, and if you obey me, take the heads of the sons of your lord, and come to me at Jezreel at this same hour tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, being seventy men, were being raised with the nobles of the city. (2 Kings 10, 6)
But they did not listen. Instead, they hardened their necks to be like the neck of their fathers, who were not willing to obey the Lord, their God. (2 Kings 17, 14)
And immediately the king said, “Call Haman quickly, so that he may obey Esther’s will. And so the king and Haman came to the feast, which the queen had prepared for them. (Esther 9, 21)
“Artaxerxes, the great king from India all the way to Ethiopia, to the generals and leaders of the one hundred twenty-seven provinces that obey our command: greetings, he says. (Esther 13, 1)
All those who faithfully obey the Persians deserve, for their fidelity, to receive a reward, but those who are traitors to their kingdom deserve to be destroyed for their crime. (Esther 13, 23)
If they listen and obey, they will fill their days with goodness and complete their years in glory. (Job 36, 11)
And Mattathias responded, and he said with a loud voice: “Even if all nations obey king Antiochus, so that each one departs from the service of the law of his fathers and consents to his commandments, (1 Maccabees 2, 19)
I and my sons and my brothers will obey the law of our fathers. (1 Maccabees 2, 20)
We resolved to serve your father, and to walk according to his precepts, and to obey his edicts. (1 Maccabees 6, 23)
And they commit their government to one man each year, to rule over their entire land, and they all obey this one, and there is no envy or jealousy among them. (1 Maccabees 8, 16)
And those who do battle, they need not provide with supplies of wheat, or arms, or money, or ships, just as it seems good to the Romans, and they shall obey their orders, while taking nothing from them. (1 Maccabees 8, 26)