1 Chronicles 28:8

David charged all Israel to keep God's commandments so they might possess and pass on the good land. It calls the nation to covenant obedience before God and the assembly.

Cross-references · 21

• Deut 4:1Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
• Deut 5:32You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
• Prov 13:22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
• Ezra 9:12Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’
• Prov 2:1–5My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;
• Isa 34:16Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. none will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.
• Ps 119:4You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.
• Deut 29:15but with those who stand here with us today before Yahweh our God, and also with those who are not here with us today
• Acts 10:33Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”
• Deut 4:6Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
• Phil 2:15–16that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
• Acts 17:11Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
• Ps 119:10–11With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
• Matt 5:14–16You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.
• Ps 119:44So I will obey your law continually, forever and ever.
• Ps 119:33–34Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.
• Deut 29:10All of you stand today in the presence of Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
• Heb 12:1–2Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
• Prov 3:1My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
• Deut 4:26I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.
• Ps 119:27Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.

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