when you disobey the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them. Then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you."
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
The angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, "I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers; and I said, 'I will never break my covenant with you:
and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.' But you have not listened to my voice: why have you done this?
The anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel; and he said, "Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice;
The children of Israel asked of the LORD (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt; neither shall you allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.
Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually. It is on the behalf of the children of Israel an everlasting covenant.
"'I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;
I will bring a sword upon you, that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; and you will be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.
Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God;
but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.'"
to show mercy towards our fathers, to remember his holy covenant,
Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi," says the LORD of Armies.
"My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.
But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says the LORD of Armies.
Don't we all have one father? Hasn't one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
Yet you say, 'Why?' Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
"Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!" says the LORD of Armies.
He said to them, "This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.
for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.
and said, "I beg you, the LORD, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:
and found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his seed, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.
Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don't let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests, seal to it."
Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.
They set forward from the Mount of the LORD three days' journey. The ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them.
But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, didn't depart out of the camp.
All the wave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to the LORD, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever: it is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD to you and to your seed with you."
Therefore say, 'Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace:
and it shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.'"
who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:
All the paths of the LORD are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
The friendship of the LORD is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.
"Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."
But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.
To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lily of the Covenant." A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.
Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law.
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lilies of the Covenant." A Psalm by Asaph.
"I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,
I will keep my loving kindness for him forevermore. My covenant will stand firm with him.
I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.
to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.
He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,
and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
He has given food to those who fear him. He always remembers his covenant.
He has sent redemption to his people. He has ordained his covenant forever. His name is holy and awesome!
If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forevermore."
God's temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord's covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed.
without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
This is my covenant to them, when I will take away their sins."
As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
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