The officers did as they were bidden.
Whatever he is authoritatively bidden to do, that the Japanese will do.
They were bidden to keep the vision secret till the Son of Man should have risen from the dead.
The shepherd did as he was bidden.
The death of Arcadius in May 408 caused milder counsels to prevail in the western cabinet, but Alaric, who had actually entered Epirus, demanded in a somewhat threatening manner that if he were thus suddenly bidden to desist from war, he should be paid handsomely for what in modern language would be called the expenses of mobilization.