The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
- KJV The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
- NKJV The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
- NASB The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
- NLT “The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Mount Sinai.
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Quick answer
Yahweh made a covenant with Israel at Horeb (Sinai). The relationship rests on God's covenant initiative.
Overview
Moses recalls the Horeb covenant as the foundation of Israel's relationship with God. The covenant frames all the commandments that follow as the terms of a bond God established. This covenant structure points forward to the new covenant Christ inaugurates in his blood (Luke 22:20).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Deut 4:23Be careful that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that He made with you; do not make an idol for yourselves in the form of anything He has forbidden you.
- Exod 19:5–8Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
- Exod 24:8So Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
- Heb 8:6–13Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.
- Heb 9:19–23For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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