2 Kings 23:3
And the king took his place by the pillar, and made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in the book; and all the people gave their word to keep the agreement.
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2 Kings 23:3
And the king took his place by the pillar, and made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in the book; and all the people gave their word to keep the agreement.
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Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,
Leviticus 26:3
If you are guided by my rules, and keep my laws and do them,
Deuteronomy 6:1
Now these are the orders and the laws and the decisions which the Lord your God gave me for your teaching, so that you might do them in the land of your heritage to which you are going:
Deuteronomy 10:12
And now, Israel, what would the Lord your God have you do, but to go in the fear of the Lord your God, walking in all his ways and loving him and doing his pleasure with all your heart and all your soul,
1 Kings 3:3
And Solomon, in his love for the Lord, kept the laws of David his father; but he made offerings and let them go up in smoke on the high places.
1 Kings 3:14
And if you go on in my ways, keeping my laws and my orders as your father David did, I will give you a long life.
1 Kings 8:23
Said, O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on the earth; keeping faith and mercy unchanging for your servants, while they go in your ways with all their hearts.
1 Kings 14:8
And took the kingdom away by force from the seed of David and gave it to you, you have not been like my servant David, who kept my orders, and was true to me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes.
1 Kings 15:5
Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.
2 Kings 20:3
O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.
2 Chronicles 17:3
And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he went in the early ways of his father, not turning to the Baals,
Job 23:11
My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.
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Genesis 18:8
And he took butter and milk and the young ox which he had made ready and put it before them, waiting by them under the tree while they took food.
Genesis 24:30
And when he saw the nose-ring and the ornaments on his sister's hands, and when she gave him word of what the man had said to her, then he went out to the man who was waiting with the camels by the water-spring.
Exodus 18:13
Now on the day after, Moses took his seat to give decisions for the people: and the people were waiting before Moses from morning till evening.
Judges 3:19
But he himself, turning back from the stone images at Gilgal, said, I have something to say to you in secret, O king. And he said, Let there be quiet. Then all those who were waiting before him went out.
Judges 3:20
Then Ehud came in to him while he was seated by himself in his summer-house. And Ehud said, I have a word from God for you. And he got up from his seat.
Judges 6:31
But Joash said to all those who were attacking him, Will you take up the cause of Baal? will you be his saviour? Let anyone who will take up his cause be put to death while it is still morning: if he is a god, let him take up his cause himself because of the pulling down of his altar.
Jeremiah 36:21
So the king sent Jehudi to get the book, and he took it from the room of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi gave a reading of it in the hearing of the king and all the rulers who were by the king's side.
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Exodus 8:25
And Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Go and make your offering to your God here in the land.
Exodus 8:28
Then Pharaoh said, I will let you go to make an offering to the Lord your God in the waste land; but do not go very far away, and make prayer for me.
Exodus 10:11
Not so; but let your males go and give worship to the Lord, as your desire is. This he said, driving them out from before him.
Exodus 10:24
Then Pharaoh sent for Moses, and said, Go and give worship to the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds be kept here: your little ones may go with you.
Exodus 12:31
And he sent for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Get up and go out from among my people, you and the children of Israel; go and give worship to the Lord as you have said.
Exodus 12:32
And take your flocks and your herds as you have said, and be gone; and give me your blessing.
Exodus 12:33
And the Egyptians were forcing the people on, to get them out of the land quickly; for they said, We are all dead men.
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Leviticus 26:44
But for all that, when they are in the land of their haters I will not let them go, or be turned away from them, or give them up completely; my agreement with them will not be broken, for I am the Lord their God.
Leviticus 26:45
And because of them I will keep in mind the agreement which I made with their fathers, whom I took out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, to be their God: I am the Lord.
Deuteronomy 30:1
Now when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse which I have put before you, if the thought of them comes back to your minds, when you are living among the nations where the Lord your God has sent you,
Deuteronomy 30:3
Then the Lord will have pity on you, changing your fate, and taking you back again from among all the nations where you have been forced to go.
1 Kings 8:47
And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, and are turned again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;
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Deuteronomy 8:19
And it is certain that if at any time you are turned away from the Lord your God, and go after other gods, to be their servants and to give them worship, destruction will overtake you.
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Deuteronomy 29:8
And we took their land and gave it to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, for their heritage.
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Joshua 24:22
And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses.
1 Kings 18:21
And Elijah came near to all the people and said, How long will you go on balancing between two opinions? if the Lord is God, then give worship to him; but if Baal, give worship to him. And the people said not a word in answer.
1 Kings 18:38
Then the fire of the Lord came down, burning up the offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and drinking up the water in the drain.
1 Kings 18:39
And when the people saw it, they all went down on their faces, and said, The Lord, he is God, the Lord, he is God.
1 Kings 18:40
And Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal, let not one of them get away. So they took them, and Elijah made them go down to the stream Kishon, and put them to death there.
2 Kings 23:8
And he made all the priests from the towns of Judah come into Jerusalem, and he made unclean the high places where the priests had been burning offerings, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he had the high places of the evil spirits pulled down which were by the doorway of Joshua, the ruler of the town, on the left side of the way into the town.
2 Kings 23:9
Still the priests of the high places never came up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem; but they took their food of unleavened bread among their brothers.
2 Kings 23:10
And Topheth, in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, he made unclean, so that no man might make his son or his daughter go through the fire to Molech.
2 Kings 23:11
And he took away the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the way into the house of the Lord, by the room of Nathan-melech, the unsexed servant, which was in the outer part of the building, and the carriages of the sun he put on fire.
2 Kings 23:12
And the altars on the roof of the high room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord, were pulled down and crushed to bits, and the dust of them was put into the stream Kidron.
2 Kings 23:13
And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting god of the children of Ammon, the king made unclean.
2 Kings 23:14
The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead.
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1 Samuel 18:3
Then Jonathan and David made an agreement together, because of Jonathan's love for David.
1 Samuel 23:18
And the two of them made an agreement before the Lord: and David went on living in Horesh, and Jonathan went back to his house.
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2 Kings 23:15
And the altar at Beth-el, and the high place put up by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil, that altar and that high place were pulled down; and the high place was burned and crushed to dust and the Asherah was burned.
2 Kings 23:16
Then Josiah, turning round, saw on the mountain the places of the dead, and he sent and had the bones taken out of their places and burned on the altar, so making it unclean, as the Lord had said by the man of God when Jeroboam was in his place by the altar on that feast-day. And he, turning his eyes to the resting-place of the man of God who had given word of these things, said:
2 Kings 23:17
What is that headstone I see over there? And the men of the town said to him, It is the resting-place of the man of God who came from Judah and gave word of all these things which you have done to the altar of Beth-el.
2 Kings 23:18
So he said, Let him be; let not his bones be moved. So they let his bones be with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.
2 Kings 23:19
Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el.
2 Kings 23:20
And all the priests of the high places there he put to death on the altars, burning the bones of the dead on them; and then he went back to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 20:5
And Jehoshaphat took his place in the meeting of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord in front of the new open space,
2 Chronicles 31:1
Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.
2 Chronicles 34:6
And in all the towns of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon as far as Naphtali, he made waste their houses round about.
2 Chronicles 34:7
He had the altars and the pillars of wood pulled down and the images crushed to dust, and all the sun-images cut down, through all the land of Israel, and then he went back to Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 36:10
Then Baruch gave a public reading of the words of Jeremiah from the book, in the house of the Lord, in the room of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher square, as one goes in by the new doorway of the Lord's house, in the hearing of all the people.
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2 Chronicles 30:2
For the king, after discussion with his chiefs and all the body of the people in Jerusalem, had made a decision to keep the Passover in the second month.
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2 Chronicles 6:22
If a man does wrong to his neighbour and has to take an oath, and comes before your altar to take his oath in this house:
2 Chronicles 6:23
Then let your ear be open in heaven, and be the judge of your servants, giving punishment to the wrongdoer, so that his sin may come on his head; and, by your decision, keeping from evil him who has done no wrong.
Ezra 10:3
Let us now make an agreement with our God to put away all the wives and all their children, if it seems right to my lord and to those who go in fear of the words of our God; and let it be done in keeping with the law.
Ezra 10:5
Then Ezra got up, and made the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and all Israel take an oath that they would do this. So they took an oath.
Nehemiah 5:12
Then they said, We will give them back, and take nothing for them; we will do as you say. Then I sent for the priests and made them take an oath that they would keep this agreement.
Nehemiah 13:25
And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
Jeremiah 34:9
That every man was to let his Hebrew man-servant and his Hebrew servant-girl go free; so that no one might make use of a Jew, his countryman, as a servant:
Jeremiah 34:10
And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every one let his man-servant and his servant-girl go free, not to be used as servants any longer; they did so, and let them go.
Jeremiah 34:13
The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, I made an agreement with your fathers on the day when I took them out of Egypt, out of the prison-house, saying,
Jeremiah 34:18
And I will give the men who have gone against my agreement and have not given effect to the words of the agreement which they made before me, when the ox was cut in two and they went between the parts of it,
Matthew 26:63
But Jesus said not a word. And the high priest said to him, I put you on oath, by the living God, that you will say to us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.
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Psalms 50:14
Make an offering of praise to God; keep the agreements which you have made with the Most High;
Psalms 116:18
I will make the offerings of my oath, even before all his people;
Ecclesiastes 5:5
It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.
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Deuteronomy 31:26
Take this book of the law and put it by the ark of the Lord's agreement, so that it may be a witness against you.
2 Samuel 5:3
So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel.
2 Kings 11:12
Then he made the king's son come out, and put the crown on him and the arm-bands, and made him king, and put the holy oil on him; and they all, making sounds of joy with their hands, said, Long life to the king.
Psalms 89:3
I have made an agreement with the man of my selection, I have made an oath to David my servant;
Psalms 89:28
I will keep my mercy for him for ever; my agreement with him will not be changed.
Psalms 89:34
I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed.
Psalms 89:35
I have made an oath once by my holy name, that I will not be false to David.
Psalms 89:36
His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me.
Ecclesiastes 8:2
I say to you, Keep the king's law, from respect for the oath of God.
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1 Kings 8:22
Then Solomon took his place before the altar of the Lord, all the men of Israel being present, and stretching out his hands to heaven,
2 Kings 18:28
Then the Rab-shakeh got up and said with a loud voice in the Jews' language, Give ear to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria;
2 Chronicles 6:12
Then he took his place in front of the altar of the Lord, all the men of Israel being present,
Job 11:13
But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;
Psalms 63:4
So will I go on blessing you all my life, lifting up my hands in your name.
Isaiah 1:15
And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.
Jeremiah 4:3
For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.
Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?
Ezekiel 46:2
And the ruler is to go in through the covered way of the outer doorway outside, and take his place by the pillar of the doorway, and the priests will make his burned offering and his peace-offerings and he will give worship at the doorstep of the doorway; then he will go out, and the door will not be shut till the evening.
Zephaniah 1:4
And my hand will be stretched out on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem, cutting off the name of the Baal from this place, and the name of the false priests,
1 Timothy 2:8
It is my desire, then, that in every place men may give themselves to prayer, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or argument.
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Isaiah 9:11
For this cause the Lord has made strong the haters of Israel, driving them on to make war against him;
Ezekiel 29:7
When they took a grip of you in their hands, you were crushed so that their arms were broken: and when they put their weight on you for support, you were broken and all their muscles gave way.
Ezekiel 36:5
For this cause the Lord has said: Truly, in the heat of my bitter feeling I have said things against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who have taken my land as a heritage for themselves with the joy of all their heart, and with bitter envy of soul have made attacks on it:
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Jeremiah 6:10
To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.
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Jeremiah 11:1
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
Jeremiah 11:5
So that I may give effect to the oath which I made to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as at this day. And I said in answer, So be it, O Lord.
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Psalms 1:1
Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.
Psalms 119:115
Go far from me, you evil-doers; so that I may keep the teachings of my God.
Jeremiah 26:4
And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: If you do not give ear to me and go in the way of my law which I have put before you,
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Deuteronomy 4:45
These are the rules and the laws and the decisions which Moses gave to the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt;
Deuteronomy 6:13
Let the fear of the Lord your God be in your hearts, and be his servants, taking your oaths by his name.
Deuteronomy 11:13
And it will be that if you truly give ear to the orders which I put before you this day, loving the Lord your God and worshipping him with all your heart and all your soul,
2 Chronicles 6:16
So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place before me on the seat of the kingdom of Israel; if only your children give attention to their ways, walking in my law, as you have done before me.
Psalms 19:7
The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.
Psalms 19:8
The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.
Psalms 19:9
The fear of the Lord is clean, and has no end; the decisions of the Lord are true and full of righteousness.
Micah 6:8
He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.
Matthew 22:36
Master, which is the chief rule in the law?
Colossians 1:10
Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
1 Thessalonians 4:1
And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.
1 Thessalonians 4:2
Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
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Matthew 22:37
And he said to him, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
Romans 7:12
But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.
Ephesians 6:10
Lastly, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his power.
1 John 5:3
For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.
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2 Samuel 23:5
For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?
2 Kings 23:21
And the king gave orders to all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it says in this book of the law.
2 Chronicles 22:9
And he went in search of Ahaziah; and when they came where he was, (for he was in a secret place in Samaria,) they took him to Jehu and put him to death; then they put his body to rest in the earth, for they said, He is the son of Jehoshaphat, whose heart was true to the Lord. So the family of Ahaziah had no power to keep the kingdom.
2 Chronicles 34:19
And the king, hearing the words of the law, took his robe in his hands, violently parting it as a sign of his grief.
Jeremiah 24:7
And I will give them a heart to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord: and they will be my people, and I will be their God: for they will come back to me with all their heart.
Jeremiah 32:39
And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:
Jeremiah 32:40
And I will make an eternal agreement with them, that I will never give them up, but ever do them good; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not go away from me.
Jeremiah 32:41
And truly, I will take pleasure in doing them good, and all my heart and soul will be given to planting them in this land in good faith.
Jeremiah 50:5
They will be questioning about the way to Zion, with their faces turned in its direction, saying, Come, and be united to the Lord in an eternal agreement which will be kept in mind for ever.
Acts 3:25
You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.
1 John 1:7
But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.
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Jeremiah 34:14
At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear.
Jeremiah 34:16
But again you have put shame on my name, and you have taken back, every one his man-servant and his servant-girl, whom you had sent away free, and you have put them under the yoke again to be your servants and servant-girls.
Acts 9:6
But get up, and go into the town, and it will be made clear to you what you have to do.
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Acts 27:38
And when they had had enough food, they made the weight of the ship less, turning the grain out into the sea.
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Exodus 19:6
And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.
Exodus 24:3
Then Moses came and put before the people all the words of the Lord and his laws: and all the people, answering with one voice, said, Whatever the Lord has said we will do.
Deuteronomy 5:2
The Lord our God made an agreement with us in Horeb.
Deuteronomy 29:21
He will be marked out by the Lord, from all the tribes of Israel, for an evil fate, in keeping with all the curses of the agreement recorded in this book of the law.
Deuteronomy 29:25
Then men will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he took them out of the land of Egypt:
Deuteronomy 30:10
If you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, keeping his orders and his laws which are recorded in this book of the law, and turning to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Jeremiah 31:31
See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah:
Jeremiah 31:32
Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; which agreement was broken by them, and I gave them up, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Jeremiah 31:34
And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.
Jeremiah 32:38
And they will be my people, and I will be their God:
2 Corinthians 8:5
And going even farther than our hope, they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us after the purpose of God.
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