Trouvé 480 Résultats pour: Covenant Of Abraham
and he spoke thus to the people; Here is a message from the Lord your God. Long ago, these ancestors of yours, Thare and his sons Abraham and Nachor, had a home beyond the Euphrates, and there worshipped alien gods. (Joshua 24, 2)
It was I that bade your father Abraham leave Mesopotamia, and brought him here, to Chanaan, instead. It was I that gave him heirs to succeed him, (Joshua 24, 3)
So Josue, that day, made a covenant with them, there in Sichem, and set before them the laws and decrees they were to follow; (Joshua 24, 25)
So that the Lord complained in high displeasure, This people of mine have annulled the covenant I made with their fathers, and refuse me obedience; (Judges 2, 20)
It was only after the death of Gedeon that the Israelites went back to their old ways, and played the wanton with gods of the country-side. They had a covenant now with Baal, that he should be their god, (Judges 8, 33)
When this news reached the men who dwelt in Sichem Watch-tower, they took refuge in the temple of their god, whom they called Berith because they had made a covenant with him there. It gave its name to the ground on which it stood, which was strongly fortified. (Judges 9, 46)
So the army fell back upon its encampment; and now the elders of Israel were at a loss; why had the Lord so left them at the mercy of the Philistines? They would send to Silo for the ark that bore record of the Lord’s covenant; surely he would come into their midst, and save them from the power of their enemies. (1 Samuel 4, 3)
And now Samuel called on the people to come with him to Galgala, and renew the covenant of the kingship there; (1 Samuel 11, 14)
and Jonathan, loving him dearly as his own life, made a covenant of friendship with David, (1 Samuel 18, 3)
I am thy servant, and thou hast made me swear a covenant of friendship with thee before the Lord; do me, then, this kindness. And if I am guilty of any fault, do thou thyself slay me, without seeking to reconcile me with thy father. (1 Samuel 20, 8)
Thus did Jonathan make a covenant with the line of David, and the Lord’s vengeance fell only on David’s enemies.✻ (1 Samuel 20, 16)
So they made a covenant between them, there in the Lord’s presence; and David lay close in the woods, while Jonathan went home again. (1 Samuel 23, 18)
