Bible Cross References
made a covenant
2 Chronicles 15:12
They made a covenant in which they agreed to worship the LORD, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and soul.
2 Chronicles 15:14
In a loud voice they took an oath in the LORD's name that they would keep the covenant, and then they shouted and blew trumpets.
2 Chronicles 29:10
"I have now decided to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that he will no longer be angry with us.
2 Chronicles 34:31
He stood by the royal column and made a covenant with the LORD to obey him, to keep his laws and commands with all his heart and soul, and to put into practice the demands attached to the covenant, as written in the book.
2 Chronicles 34:32
He made the people of Benjamin and everyone else present in Jerusalem promise to keep the covenant. And so the people of Jerusalem obeyed the requirements of the covenant they had made with the God of their ancestors.
Deuteronomy 5:2
At Mount Sinai the LORD our God made a covenant,
Deuteronomy 5:3
not only with our fathers, but with all of us who are living today.
Deuteronomy 29:1-15
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These are the terms of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab; all this was in addition to the covenant which the LORD had made with them at Mount Sinai.
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Moses called together all the people of Israel and said to them, "You saw for yourselves what the LORD did to the king of Egypt, to his officials, and to his entire country.
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You saw the terrible plagues, the miracles, and the great wonders that the LORD performed.
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But to this very day he has not let you understand what you have experienced.
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For forty years the LORD led you through the desert, and your clothes and sandals never wore out.
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You did not have bread to eat or wine or beer to drink, but the LORD provided for your needs in order to teach you that he is your God.
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And when we came to this place, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to fight against us. But we defeated them,
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took their land, and divided it among the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh.
9
Obey faithfully all the terms of this covenant, so that you will be successful in everything you do.
10
"Today you are standing in the presence of the LORD your God, all of you---your leaders and officials, your men,
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women, and children, and the foreigners who live among you and cut wood and carry water for you.
12
You are here today to enter into this covenant that the LORD your God is making with you and to accept its obligations,
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so that the LORD may now confirm you as his people and be your God, as he promised you and your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
14
You are not the only ones with whom the LORD is making this covenant with its obligations.
15
He is making it with all of us who stand here in his presence today and also with our descendants who are not yet born.
2 Kings 11:17
The priest Jehoiada had King Joash and the people make a covenant with the LORD that they would be the LORD's people; he also made a covenant between the king and the people.
Ezra 10:3
Now we must make a solemn promise to our God that we will send these women and their children away. We will do what you and the others who honor God's commands advise us to do. We will do what God's Law demands.
Nehemiah 5:12
The leaders replied, "We'll do as you say. We'll give the property back and not try to collect the debts." I called in the priests and made the leaders swear in front of them to keep the promise they had just made.
Nehemiah 5:13
Then I took off the sash I was wearing around my waist and shook it out. "This is how God will shake any of you who don't keep your promise," I said. "God will take away your houses and everything you own, and will leave you with nothing." Everyone who was present said, "Amen!" and praised the LORD. And the leaders kept their promise.
Nehemiah 9:38
Because of all that has happened, we, the people of Israel, hereby make a solemn written agreement, and our leaders, our Levites, and our priests put their seals to it.
Nehemiah 10:29-39
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do hereby join with our leaders in an oath, under penalty of a curse if we break it, that we will live according to God's Law, which God gave through his servant Moses; that we will obey all that the LORD, our Lord, commands us; and that we will keep all his laws and requirements.
30
We will not intermarry with the foreigners living in our land.
31
If foreigners bring grain or anything else to sell to us on the Sabbath or on any other holy day, we will not buy from them. Every seventh year we will not farm the land, and we will cancel all debts.
32
Every year we will each contribute one-eighth of an ounce of silver to help pay the expenses of the Temple.
33
We will provide for the Temple worship the following: the sacred bread, the daily grain offering, the animals to be burned each day as sacrifices, the sacred offerings for Sabbaths, New Moon Festivals, and other festivals, the other sacred offerings, the offerings to take away the sins of Israel, and anything else needed for the Temple.
34
We, the people, priests, and Levites, will draw lots each year to determine which clans are to provide wood to burn the sacrifices offered to the LORD our God, according to the requirements of the Law.
35
We will take to the Temple each year an offering of the first grain we harvest and of the first fruit that ripens on our trees.
36
The first son born to each of us we will take to the priests in the Temple and there, as required by the Law, dedicate him to God. We will also dedicate the first calf born to each of our cows, and the first lamb or kid born to each of our sheep or goats.
37
We will take to the priests in the Temple the dough made from the first grain harvested each year and our other offerings of wine, olive oil, and all kinds of fruit. We will take to the Levites, who collect tithes in our farming villages, the tithes from the crops that grow on our land.
38
Priests who are descended from Aaron are to be with the Levites when tithes are collected, and for use in the Temple the Levites are to take to the Temple storerooms one-tenth of all the tithes they collect.
39
The people of Israel and the Levites are to take the contributions of grain, wine, and olive oil to the storerooms where the utensils for the Temple are kept and where the priests who are on duty, the Temple guards, and the members of the Temple choir have their quarters. We will not neglect the house of our God.
that they should
Deuteronomy 26:17-19
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Today you have acknowledged the LORD as your God; you have promised to obey him, to keep all his laws, and to do all that he commands.
18
Today the LORD has accepted you as his own people, as he promised you; and he commands you to obey all his laws.
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He will make you greater than any other nation that he has created, and you will bring praise and honor to his name. You will be his own people, as he promised."
Joshua 24:21-25
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The people said to Joshua, "No! We will serve the LORD."
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Joshua told them, "You are your own witnesses to the fact that you have chosen to serve the LORD." "Yes," they said, "we are witnesses."
23
"Then get rid of those foreign gods that you have," he demanded, "and pledge your loyalty to the LORD, the God of Israel."
24
The people then said to Joshua, "We will serve the LORD our God. We will obey his commands."
25
So Joshua made a covenant for the people that day, and there at Shechem he gave them laws and rules to follow.
Isaiah 44:5
"One by one, people will say, 'I am the LORD's.' They will come to join the people of Israel. They each will mark the name of the LORD on their arms and call themselves one of God's people."