The officers did as they were bidden.
Whatever he is authoritatively bidden to do, that the Japanese will do.
The shepherd did as he was bidden.
They were bidden to keep the vision secret till the Son of Man should have risen from the dead.
From the time when he was bidden to leave his country to enter the unknown land, Yahweh was ever present to encourage him to trust in the future when his posterity should possess the land, and so, in its bitterest hours, Israel could turn for consolation to the promises of the past which enshrined in Abraham its hopes for the future.