Lexicon :: Strong's G189 - akoē

He said, “If you will carefully obey the LORD your God, do what is right in his sight, pay attention to his commands, and keep all his statutes, I will not inflict any illnesses on you that I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”

“Now if you will carefully listen to me and keep my covenant, you will be my own possession out of all the peoples, although the whole earth is mine,

“If you do mistreat them, they will no doubt cry to me, and I will certainly hear their cry.

“You must not spread a false report. Do not join[fn] the wicked to be a malicious witness.

“But if you will carefully obey him and do everything I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

“If you carefully obey my commands I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and worship him with all your heart and all your soul,

“For if you carefully observe every one of these commands I am giving you to follow ​— ​to love the LORD your God, walk in all his ways, and remain faithful[fn] to him ​— ​

“if only you obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow every one of these commands I am giving you today.

“Now if you faithfully obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all his commands I am giving you today, the LORD your God will put you far above all the nations of the earth.

“No, my sons, the news I hear the LORD’s people spreading is not good.

Then Samuel said:

Does the LORD take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices

as much as in obeying the LORD?

Look: to obey is better than sacrifice,

to pay attention is better than the fat of rams.

While they were on the way, a report reached David: “Absalom struck down all the king’s sons; not even one of them survived! ”

Foreigners submit to me cringing;

as soon as they hear, they obey me.

He was the most honored of the Thirty, but he did not become one of the Three. David put him in charge of his bodyguard.

The news reached Joab. Since he had supported Adonijah but not Absalom, Joab fled to the LORD’s tabernacle and took hold of the horns of the altar.

“But I didn’t believe the reports until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, I was not even told half. Your wisdom and prosperity far exceed the report I heard.

“But I didn’t believe their reports until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, I was not even told half of your great wisdom! You far exceed the report I heard.

Just listen to his thunderous voice

and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.

I had heard reports about you,

but now my eyes have seen you.

Foreigners submit to me cringing;

as soon as they hear they obey me.

He will not fear bad news;

his heart is confident, trusting in the LORD.

And he replied:

Go! Say to these people:

Keep listening, but do not understand;

keep looking, but do not perceive.

How beautiful on the mountains

are the feet of the herald,

who proclaims peace,

who brings news of good things,

who proclaims salvation,

who says to Zion, “Your God reigns! ”

Who has believed what we have heard?[fn]

And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

We have heard about it,

and our hands have become weak.

Distress has seized us —

pain, like a woman in labor.

Listen! A noise ​— ​it is coming —

a great commotion from the land to the north.

The cities of Judah will be made desolate,

a jackals’ den.

“ ‘However, if you listen to me ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​and do not bring loads through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work on it,

I have surely heard Ephraim moaning,

“You disciplined me, and I have been disciplined

like an untrained calf.

Take me back, so that I can return,

for you, LORD, are my God.

Pharaoh’s army had left Egypt, and when the Chaldeans, who were besieging Jerusalem, heard the report, they withdrew from Jerusalem.

I have heard an envoy from the LORD;

a messenger has been sent among the nations:

Assemble yourselves to come against her.

Rise up for war!

About Damascus:

Hamath and Arpad are put to shame,

for they have heard a bad report and are agitated,

like[fn] the anxious sea that cannot be calmed.

The king of Babylon has heard about them;

his hands have become weak.

Distress has seized him —

pain, like a woman in labor.

“Didn’t you treat your sister Sodom as an object of scorn when you were proud,

“But reports from the east and the north will terrify him, and he will go out with great fury to annihilate and completely destroy many.

As they are going, I will spread my net over them;

I will bring them down like birds of the sky.

I will discipline them in accordance

with the news that reaches[fn] their assembly.

The vision of Obadiah.

This is what the Lord GOD has said about Edom:

We have heard a message from the LORD;

an envoy has been sent among the nations:

“Rise up, and let’s go to war against her.”[fn]

This is what the LORD says:

Though they are strong[fn] and numerous,

they will still be mowed down,

and he[fn] will pass away.

Though I have punished you,[fn]

I will punish you no longer.

LORD, I have heard the report about you;

LORD, I stand in awe of your deeds.

Revive your work in these years;

make it known in these years.

In your wrath remember mercy!