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.
And shaking out the folds of my robe, I said, So may God send out from his house and his work every man who does not keep this agreement; even so let him be sent out and made as nothing. And all the meeting of the people said, So be it, and gave praise to the Lord. And the people did as they had said.
For in Judah there were a number of people who had made an agreement by oath with him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah, the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken as his wife the daughter of Meshullam, the son of Berechiah.
And because of all this we are making an agreement in good faith, and putting it in writing; and our rulers, our Levites, and our priests are putting their names to it.
You saw that his heart was true to you, and made an agreement with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite, even to give it to his seed, and you have done what you said; for righteousness is yours:
So they went forward three days' journey from the mountain of the Lord; and the ark of the Lord's agreement went three days' journey before them, looking for a resting-place for them;
But they gave no attention to his words and went to the top of the mountain, though Moses and the ark of the Lord's agreement did not go out of the tent-circle.
All the lifted offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord, I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as a right for ever. This is an agreement made with salt before the Lord, to you and to your seed for ever.
So say to them that I will make with him an agreement of peace:
And by this agreement, he and his sons after him have the right to be priests for ever; because, by his care for the honour of his God, he took away the sin of the children of Israel.
A man without sense gives his hand in an agreement, and makes himself responsible before his neighbour.
Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:
Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts:
If they keep his agreement, and have his laws in mind to do them.
And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;
He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;
The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;
And kept in mind his agreement with them, and in his great mercy gave them forgiveness.
He has given food to his worshippers; he will keep his agreement in mind for ever.
All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.
The secret of the Lord is with those in whose hearts is the fear of him; he will make his agreement clear to them.
For see! the kings came together by agreement, they were joined together.
But to the sinner, God says, What are you doing, talking of my laws, or taking the words of my agreement in your mouth?
When you saw a thief, you were in agreement with him, and you were joined with those who took other men's wives.
Let my saints come together to me; those who have made an agreement with me by offerings.
He has put out his hand against those who were at peace with him; he has not kept his agreement.
And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.
For they have all come to an agreement; they are all joined together against you:
I will keep my mercy for him for ever; my agreement with him will not be changed.
I have made an agreement with the man of my selection, I have made an oath to David my servant;
I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed.
You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth.
And the house of God which is in heaven was open; and the ark of his agreement was seen in his house, and there were flames and voices and thunders and an earth-shock and a rain of ice.
And this is my agreement with them, when I will take away their sins.
Be in harmony with one another. Do not have a high opinion of yourselves, but be in agreement with common people. Do not give yourselves an air of wisdom.
Now to him who is able to make you strong in agreement with the good news which I gave you and the preaching of Jesus Christ, in the light of the revelation of that secret which has been kept through times eternal,
But, if I do that which I have no mind to do, I am in agreement with the law that the law is good.
And he who is the searcher of hearts has knowledge of the mind of the Spirit, because he is making prayers for the saints in agreement with the mind of God.
Paul, a servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, in agreement with the faith of the saints of God and the full knowledge of what is true in harmony with religion,
But let your words be in agreement with true and right teaching:
And I took my rod Beautiful, cutting it in two, so that the Lord's agreement, which he had made with all the peoples, might be broken.
And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water.
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