Topic
Demand
11 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Exodus 5:14ISBE
And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
- 2 Samuel 11:7ISBE
And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered.
- Nehemiah 5:18ISBE
Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this…
- Job 38:3ISBE
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
- Job 40:7ISBE
Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
- Job 42:4ISBE
Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
- Daniel 2:27ISBE
Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;
- Matthew 2:4ISBE
And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
- Luke 3:14ISBE
And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.
- Luke 17:20ISBE
¶ And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
- Acts 21:33ISBE
Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 11 references
de-mand': The peremptory, imperative sense is absent from this word in its occurrences in the King James Version, where it means no more than "ask," "inquire" (compare French, demander) one or the other of which the Revised Version (British and American) substitutes in 2Sa 11:7; Mt 2:4; Lu 3:14; 17:20; Ac 21:33. the Revised Version (British and American) retains "demand" in Ex 5:14; Job 38:3; 40:7; 42:4; Da 2:27; and inserts it (the King James Version "require") in Ne 5:18.
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.