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.
But this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by the decision of the Lord;
Then Saul said to the Lord, the God of Israel, Why have you not given me an answer today? If the sin is in me or in Jonathan my son, O Lord God of Israel, give Urim, and if it is in your people Israel, give Thummim. And by the decision of the Lord, Saul and Jonathan were marked out, and the people went free.
And Saul said, Give your decision between my son Jonathan and me. And Jonathan was taken.
So let the Lord be judge, and give a decision between me and you, and see and give support to my cause, and keep me from falling into your hands.
And David was king over all Israel, judging and giving right decisions for all his people.
And more than this, Absalom said, If only I was made judge in the land, so that every man who has any cause or question might come to me, and I would give a right decision for him!
For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.
And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let us come into the hands of the Lord, for great are his mercies: let me not come into the hands of men.
And news of this decision which the king had made went through all Israel; and they had fear of the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to give decisions.
About this house which you are building: if you will keep my laws and give effect to my decisions and be guided by my rules, I will give effect to my word which I gave to David your father.
Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof.
Then let your ear be open in heaven, and be the judge of your servants, giving your decision against the wrongdoer, so that punishment for his sins may come on his head; and, by your decision, keeping from evil him who has done no wrong.
Turning our hearts to himself, guiding us to go in all his ways, to keep his orders and his laws and his decisions, which he gave to our fathers.
As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;
Because they are turned away from me to the worship of Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Chemosh, the god of Moab, and Milcom, the god of the Ammonites; they have not been walking in my ways or doing what is right in my eyes or keeping my laws and my decisions as his father David did.
But while your servant was turning this way and that, he was gone. Then the king of Israel said to him, You are responsible; you have given the decision against yourself.
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.
And to the rest of the sons of Kohath there were given by the Lord's decision ten towns out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and out of the tribe of Dan and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh.
And to the sons of Merari, by their families, twelve towns were given by the Lord's decision, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun.
And they gave by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these towns whose names are given.
And to the families of the sons of Kohath were given towns by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of Ephraim.
Keep in mind the great works which he has done; his wonders, and the decisions of his mouth;
So David was king over all Israel, judging and giving right decisions for all his people.
And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let me come into the hands of the Lord, for great are his mercies: let me not come into the hands of men.
So they were put into groups, by the Lord's decision, one with another; for there were rulers of the holy place and rulers of the house of God among the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar.
And the families were taken by the decision of the Lord for every door; the small family had the same chance as the great.
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.
And as for you, if you will go on your way before me as David your father did, doing whatever I have given you orders to do and keeping my laws and my decisions:
And said to the judges, Take care what you do, for you are judging not for man but for the Lord, and he is with you in the decisions you give.
Then in Jerusalem he gave authority to certain of the Levites and the priests and the heads of families of Israel to give decisions for the Lord, and in the causes of those living in Jerusalem.
And if any cause comes before you from your brothers living in their towns, where the death punishment is in question, or where there are questions of law or order, or rules or decisions, make them take care that they are not in the wrong before the Lord, so that wrath may not come on you and on your brothers; do this and you yourselves will not be in the wrong.
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.
Then the king, taking his place by the pillar, made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and to keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and with all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in this book.
And the Tirshatha said that they were not to have the most holy things for their food, till a priest came to give decision by Urim and Thummim.
For Ezra had given his mind to learning the law of the Lord and doing it, and to teaching his rules and decisions in Israel.
We have done great wrong against you, and have not kept the orders, the rules, and the decisions, which you gave to your servant Moses.
And the Tirshatha said that they were not to have the most holy things for their food, till a priest came to give decision by the Urim and Thummim.
And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders:
And gave witness against them so that you might make them come back again to your law: but their hearts were lifted up, and they gave no attention to your orders and went against your decisions (which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him), and turning their backs on you, made their necks stiff and did not give ear.
They were united with their brothers, their rulers, and put themselves under a curse and an oath, to keep their steps in the way of God's law, which was given by Moses, the servant of God, and to keep and do all the orders of the Lord, our Lord, and his decisions and his rules;
And we, the priests and the Levites and the people, made selection, by the decision of the Lord, of those who were to take the wood offering into the house of God, by families at the regular times, year by year, to be burned on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is recorded in the law;
And the rulers of the people were living in Jerusalem: the rest of the people made selection, by the decision of chance, of one out of every ten to be living in Jerusalem, the holy town; the other nine to go to the other towns.
And the king said to the wise men, who had knowledge of the times, (for this was the king's way with all who were expert in law and in the giving of decisions:
Because Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the hater of all the Jews, had made designs for their destruction, attempting to get a decision by Pur (that is, chance) with a view to putting an end to them and cutting them off;
Does God give wrong decisions? or is the ruler of all not upright in his judging?
There is no one to give a decision between us, who might have control over us.
For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire.
So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.
And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?
I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.
Let us make the decision for ourselves as to what is right; let us have the knowledge among ourselves of what is good.
I will make clear the Lord's decision: he has said to me, You are my son, this day have I given you being.
The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.
And he will be the judge of the world in righteousness, giving true decisions for the peoples.
His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.
To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.
He who does not put out his money at interest, or for payment give false decisions against men who have done no wrong. He who does these things will never be moved.
For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.
The fear of the Lord is clean, and has no end; the decisions of the Lord are true and full of righteousness.
They make a division of my robes among them, by the decision of chance they take my clothing.
Let there be joy in the mountain of Zion, and let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of your wise decisions.
May he be a judge of your people in righteousness, and make true decisions for the poor.
From heaven you gave your decision; the earth, in its fear, gave no sound,
If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions;
But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.
They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.
Zion gave ear and was glad; and the daughters of Judah were full of joy, because of your decisions, O Lord.
Before the Lord, for he has come as judge of the earth; judging the world in righteousness, and giving true decisions for the peoples.
The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.
The Lord gives decisions in righteousness for all who are in trouble.
Keep in mind the great works which he has done; his wonders, and the decisions of his mouth;
Happy are they whose decisions are upright, and he who does righteousness at all times.
When he is judged, let the decision go against him; and may his prayer become sin.
I will give you praise with an upright heart in learning your right decisions.
With my lips have I made clear all the decisions of your mouth.
My soul is broken with desire for your decisions at all times.
I have taken the way of faith: I have kept your decisions before me.
Take away the shame which is my fear; for your decisions are good.
Take not your true word quite out of my mouth; for I have put my hope in your decisions.
I have kept the memory of your decisions from times past, O Lord; and they have been my comfort.
In the middle of the night I will get up to give you praise, because of all your right decisions.
I have seen, O Lord, that your decisions are right, and that in unchanging faith you have sent trouble on me.
Let the men of pride be shamed; because they have falsely given decision against me; but I will give thought to your orders.
How short is the life of your servant! when will you give your decision against those who are attacking me?
They are ruled this day by your decisions; for all things are your servants.
My heart has not been turned away from your decisions; for you have been my teacher.
I have made an oath and kept it, to be guided by your upright decisions.
Take, O Lord, the free offerings of my mouth, and give me knowledge of your decisions.
My flesh is moved for fear of you; I give honour to your decisions.
<TZADE> O Lord, great is your righteousness, and upright are your decisions.
Let my voice come to you, in your mercy; O Lord, by your decisions give me life.
Great is the number of your mercies, O Lord; give me life in keeping with your decisions.
Your word is true from the first; and your upright decision is unchanging for ever.
Seven times a day do I give you praise, because of your upright decisions.
Give life to my soul so that it may give you praise; and let your decisions be my support.
He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.
Through me kings have their power, and rulers give right decisions.
Decision is in the lips of the king: his mouth will not go wrong in judging.
A thing may be put to the decision of chance, but it comes about through the Lord.
He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.
A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.
To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.
The decision of chance puts an end to argument, parting the strong.
A good-for-nothing witness makes sport of the judge's decision: and the mouth of evil-doers sends out evil like a stream.
The approval of a ruler is desired by great numbers: but the decision in a man's cause comes from the Lord.
Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.
Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.
For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.
Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.
The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.
Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.
And he will be the judge between the nations, and the peoples will be ruled by his decisions: and their swords will be turned into plough-blades, and their spears into vine-knives: no longer will the nations be turning their swords against one another, and the knowledge of war will be gone for ever.
Butter and honey will be his food, when he is old enough to make a decision between evil and good.
For before the child is old enough to make a decision between evil and good, the land whose two kings you are now fearing will have become waste.
Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.
Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:
And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees, or give decisions by the hearing of his ears:
But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.
Give wise directions, make a decision; let your shade be as night in full day: keep safe those who are in flight; do not give up the wandering ones.
And the spirit of Egypt will be troubled in her, and I will make her decisions without effect: and they will be turning to the false gods, and to those who make hollow sounds, and to those who have control of spirits, and to those who are wise in secret arts.
And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.
And I will make right decision the measuring-line, and righteousness the weight: and the ice-storm will take away the safe place of false words, and the secret place will be covered by the flowing waters.
Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.
See, a king will be ruling in righteousness, and chiefs will give right decisions.
See, the Lord God is my helper; who will give a decision against me? truly, all of them will become old like a robe; they will be food for the worm.
No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
And I will give my decision against them on account of all their evil-doing; because they have given me up, burning perfumes to other gods and worshipping the works of their hands.
A full wind will come for me: and now I will give my decision against them.
The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?
For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;
But if any man has pride, let it be in this, that he has the wisdom to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord, working mercy, giving true decisions, and doing righteousness in the earth: for in these things I have delight, says the Lord.
For the Lord of armies, by whom you were planted, has given his decision for evil against you, because of the evil which the people of Israel and the people of Judah have done, In moving me to wrath by offering perfumes to the Baal.
You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?
A noise will come, even to the end of the earth; for the Lord has a cause against the nations, he will give his decision against all flesh; as for the evil-doers, he will give them to the sword, says the Lord.
So now, make a change for the better in your ways and your doings, and give ear to the voice of the Lord your God; then the Lord will let himself be turned from the decision he has made against you for evil.
Did Hezekiah and all Judah put him to death? did he not in the fear of the Lord make prayer for the grace of the Lord, and the Lord let himself be turned from the decision he had made against them for evil? By this act we might do great evil against ourselves.
For this cause give ear to the decision of the Lord which he has made against Edom, and to his purposes designed against the people of Teman: Truly, they will be pulled away by the smallest of the flock; truly, he will make waste their fields with them.
So give ear to the decision of the Lord which he has made against Babylon, and to his purposes designed against the land of the Chaldaeans; Truly, they will be pulled away by the smallest of the flock; truly, he will make waste their fields with them.
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