And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.

And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.

Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.

Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak.

Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.

LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;

To the chief Musician upon Neginah, A Psalm of David. Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.

But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.

Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.

Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.

Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.

And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:

Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.

Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?

O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.

To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.

Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.

For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?

O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.