COVENANT

Passages on this topic · 300

• Genesis 2:16

  Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;

• Genesis 2:17

  but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

• Genesis 8:16

  “Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

• Genesis 8:20

  Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

• Genesis 8:21

  Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

• Genesis 8:22

  While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

• Genesis 9:1

  God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.

• Genesis 9:2

  The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.

• Genesis 9:3

  Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

• Genesis 9:4

  But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.

• Genesis 9:5

  I will surely require your blood of your lives; at the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.

• Genesis 9:6

  Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

• Genesis 9:7

  Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”

• Genesis 9:8

  God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

• Genesis 9:9

  “As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,

• Genesis 9:10

  and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.

• Genesis 9:11

  I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

• Genesis 9:12

  God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

• Genesis 9:13

  I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

• Genesis 9:14

  When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,

• Genesis 9:15

  and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

• Genesis 9:16

  The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

• Genesis 9:17

  God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

• Genesis 12:1

  Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.

• Genesis 12:2

  I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

• Genesis 12:3

  I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

• Genesis 15:9

  He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

• Genesis 15:10

  He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.

• Genesis 15:11

  The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

• Genesis 15:12

  When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

• Genesis 15:13

  He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

• Genesis 15:14

  I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,

• Genesis 15:15

  but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

• Genesis 15:16

  In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”

• Genesis 15:17

  It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

• Genesis 17:1

  When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.

• Genesis 17:2

  I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”

• Genesis 17:3

  Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,

• Genesis 17:4

  “As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

• Genesis 17:5

  Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

• Genesis 17:6

  I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

• Genesis 17:7

  I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.

• Genesis 17:8

  I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”

• Genesis 17:9

  God said to Abraham, “As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.

• Genesis 17:10

  This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.

• Genesis 17:11

  You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

• Genesis 17:12

  He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.

• Genesis 17:13

  He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

• Genesis 17:14

  The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”

• Genesis 17:15

  God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

• Genesis 17:16

  I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”

• Genesis 17:17

  Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”

• Genesis 17:18

  Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”

• Genesis 17:19

  God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

• Genesis 17:20

  As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

• Genesis 17:21

  But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”

• Genesis 17:22

  When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

• Genesis 21:22

  At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.

• Genesis 21:23

  Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”

• Genesis 21:24

  Abraham said, “I will swear.”

• Genesis 21:25

  Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

• Genesis 21:26

  Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”

• Genesis 21:27

  Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.

• Genesis 21:28

  Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

• Genesis 21:29

  Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?”

• Genesis 21:30

  He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.”

• Genesis 21:31

  Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.

• Genesis 21:32

  So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

• Genesis 22:16

  and said, “I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

• Genesis 26:3

  Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

• Genesis 26:26

  Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

• Genesis 26:27

  Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”

• Genesis 26:28

  They said, “We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,

• Genesis 26:29

  that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of Yahweh.”

• Genesis 26:30

  He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

• Genesis 26:31

  They rose up some time in the morning, and swore to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

• Genesis 28:13

  Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your offspring.

• Genesis 28:14

  Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring will all the families of the earth be blessed.

• Genesis 28:15

  Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

• Genesis 28:20

  Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,

• Genesis 28:21

  so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,

• Genesis 28:22

  then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give a tenth to you.”

• Genesis 31:44

  Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you.”

• Genesis 31:45

  Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

• Genesis 31:46

  Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.

• Genesis 31:47

  Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

• Genesis 31:48

  Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed

• Genesis 31:49

  and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

• Genesis 31:50

  If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”

• Genesis 31:51

  Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.

• Genesis 31:52

  May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

• Genesis 31:53

  The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.

• Genesis 31:54

  Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.

• Genesis 50:24

  Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

• Exodus 6:4

  I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.

• Exodus 6:5

  Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.

• Exodus 6:6

  Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments:

• Exodus 6:7

  and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

• Exodus 6:8

  I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am Yahweh.’”

• Exodus 24:7

  He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient.”

• Exodus 24:8

  Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”

• Exodus 31:16

  Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

• Exodus 34:28

  He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

• Leviticus 2:13

  Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.

• Leviticus 26:25

  I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

• Leviticus 26:26

  When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.

• Leviticus 26:27

  “‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me;

• Leviticus 26:28

  then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.

• Leviticus 26:29

  You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

• Leviticus 26:30

  I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

• Leviticus 26:31

  I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.

• Leviticus 26:32

  I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.

• Leviticus 26:33

  I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

• Leviticus 26:34

  Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

• Leviticus 26:35

  As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths, when you lived on it.

• Leviticus 26:36

  “‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

• Leviticus 26:37

  They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.

• Leviticus 26:38

  You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up.

• Leviticus 26:39

  Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.

• Leviticus 26:40

  “‘If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

• Leviticus 26:41

  I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;

• Leviticus 26:42

  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.

• Leviticus 26:43

  The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

• Leviticus 26:44

  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 Yahweh their God;

• Leviticus 26:45

  but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.’”

• Leviticus 26:46

  These are the statutes, ordinances and laws, which Yahweh made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.

• Numbers 18:19

  All the wave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, I have given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your offspring with you.”

• Numbers 25:12

  Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace.

• Numbers 25:13

  It shall be to him, and to his offspring after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.’”

• Deuteronomy 4:31

  For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.

• Deuteronomy 5:2

  Yahweh our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

• Deuteronomy 5:3

  Yahweh didn’t make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive today.

• Deuteronomy 7:8

  but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

• Deuteronomy 7:9

  Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

• Deuteronomy 9:9

  When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.

• Deuteronomy 29:1

  These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

• Deuteronomy 29:2

  Moses called to all Israel, and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;

• Deuteronomy 29:3

  the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.

• Deuteronomy 29:4

  But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

• Deuteronomy 29:5

  I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.

• Deuteronomy 29:6

  You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.

• Deuteronomy 29:7

  When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them.

• Deuteronomy 29:8

  We took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.

• Deuteronomy 29:9

  Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

• Deuteronomy 29:10

  All 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,

• Deuteronomy 29:11

  your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;

• Deuteronomy 29:12

  that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today;

• Deuteronomy 29:13

  that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

• Deuteronomy 29:14

  Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only,

• Deuteronomy 29:15

  but with those who stand here with us today before Yahweh our God, and also with those who are not here with us today

• Joshua 9:18

  The children of Israel didn’t strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.

• Joshua 9:19

  But all the princes said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. Now therefore we may not touch them.

• Joshua 9:20

  We will do this to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.”

• Joshua 9:21

  The princes said to them, “Let them live, so they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them.”

• Judges 2:1

  Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.

• Ruth 4:7

  Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the way of legalizing transactions in Israel.

• Ruth 4:8

  So the near kinsman said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” then he took off his shoe.

• Ruth 4:9

  Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, “You are witnesses today, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi.

• Ruth 4:10

  Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”

• Ruth 4:11

  All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

• 1 Samuel 18:3

  Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

• 1 Samuel 18:4

  Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave it to David, and his clothing, even including his sword, his bow, and his sash.

• 1 Samuel 20:16

  So Jonathan made a covenant with David’s house, saying, “Yahweh will require it at the hand of David’s enemies.”

• 1 Samuel 20:42

  Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have both sworn in Yahweh’s name, saying, ‘Yahweh is between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’” He arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.

• 2 Samuel 7:12

  When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

• 2 Samuel 7:13

  He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

• 2 Samuel 7:14

  I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

• 2 Samuel 7:15

  but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.

• 2 Samuel 7:16

  Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever.”’”

• 2 Samuel 21:1

  There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

• 2 Samuel 21:2

  The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);

• 2 Samuel 21:3

  and David said to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? And with what should I make atonement, that you may bless Yahweh’s inheritance?”

• 2 Samuel 21:4

  The Gibeonites said to him, “It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.” He said, “Whatever you say, that I will do for you.”

• 2 Samuel 21:5

  They said to the king, “The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

• 2 Samuel 21:6

  let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh.” The king said, “I will give them.”

• 2 Samuel 21:7

  But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

• 2 Samuel 23:5

  Most certainly my house is not so with God, yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow.

• 1 Kings 8:23

  and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;

• 1 Kings 20:34

  Ben Hadad said to him, “The cities which my father took from your father I will restore. You shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria.” “I”, said Ahab, “will let you go with this covenant.” So he made a covenant with him, and let him go.

• 1 Chronicles 17:11

  It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

• 1 Chronicles 17:12

  He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.

• 1 Chronicles 17:13

  I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;

• 1 Chronicles 17:14

  but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His throne will be established forever.”’”

• 2 Chronicles 6:16

  “Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’

• 2 Chronicles 13:5

  Ought you not to know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

• 2 Chronicles 15:12

  They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

• 2 Chronicles 15:13

  and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

• 2 Chronicles 15:14

  They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with cornets.

• 2 Chronicles 15:15

  All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.

• 2 Chronicles 23:1

  In the seventh year, Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into a covenant with him.

• 2 Chronicles 23:2

  They went around in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 23:3

  All the assembly made a covenant with the king in God’s house. He said to them, “Behold, the king’s son must reign, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David.

• 2 Chronicles 23:16

  Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh’s people.

• Ezra 10:19

  They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.

• Nehemiah 9:38

  Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”

• Nehemiah 10:28

  The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the temple servants, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge, and understanding —

• Nehemiah 10:29

  they joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

• Nehemiah 10:30

  and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

• Nehemiah 10:31

  and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

• Nehemiah 10:32

  Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;

• Nehemiah 13:29

  Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

• Psalms 89:20

  I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,

• Psalms 89:21

  with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him.

• Psalms 89:22

  No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.

• Psalms 89:23

  I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.

• Psalms 89:24

  But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.

• Psalms 89:25

  I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.

• Psalms 89:26

  He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’

• Psalms 89:27

  I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

• Psalms 89:28

  I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him.

• Psalms 89:29

  I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

• Psalms 89:30

  If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;

• Psalms 89:31

  if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments;

• Psalms 89:32

  then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

• Psalms 89:33

  But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

• Psalms 89:34

  I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

• Psalms 89:35

  Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.

• Psalms 89:36

  His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.

• Psalms 89:37

  It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah.

• Psalms 105:8

  He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

• Psalms 105:9

  the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,

• Psalms 105:10

  and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

• Psalms 105:11

  saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance”;

• Psalms 106:45

  He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

• Psalms 111:5

  He has given food to those who fear him. He always remembers his covenant.

• Isaiah 54:10

  For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.

• Isaiah 55:3

  Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

• Isaiah 59:21

  “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from henceforth and forever.”

• Isaiah 61:8

  “For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

• Jeremiah 11:2

  “Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

• Jeremiah 11:3

  and say to them, Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Cursed is the man who doesn’t hear the words of this covenant,

• Jeremiah 22:9

  Then they shall answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.’”

• Jeremiah 31:31

  “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

• Jeremiah 31:32

  not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 31:33

  “But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:

• Jeremiah 31:34

  and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they shall all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.”

• Jeremiah 32:10

  I signed the deed, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances to him.

• Jeremiah 32:11

  So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open;

• Jeremiah 32:12

  and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses who subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard.

• Jeremiah 33:21

  then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

• Jeremiah 34:8

  The word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;

• Jeremiah 34:9

  that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that no one should make bondservants of them, of a Jew his brother.

• Jeremiah 34:10

  All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant, go free, that no one should make bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:

• Jeremiah 34:11

  but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

• Jeremiah 34:12

  Therefore Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

• Jeremiah 34:13

  “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,

• Jeremiah 34:14

  At the end of seven years, every man of you shall release his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years. You shall let him go free from you; but your fathers didn’t listen to me, and didn’t incline their ear.

• Jeremiah 34:15

  You had now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in every man proclaiming liberty to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name;

• Jeremiah 34:16

  but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return; and you brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.’”

• Jeremiah 34:17

  Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

• Jeremiah 34:18

  I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts:

• Jeremiah 34:19

  the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf;

• Jeremiah 34:20

  I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.

• Jeremiah 34:21

  “I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes into the hands of their enemies, into the hands of those who seek their life, and into the hands of the king of Babylon’s army, who has gone away from you.

• Jeremiah 34:22

  Behold, I will command,” says Yahweh, “and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, take it, and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

• Jeremiah 44:26

  “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: ‘Behold, I have sworn by my great name,’ says Yahweh, ‘that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, “As the Lord Yahweh lives.”

• Jeremiah 44:27

  Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until they are all gone.

• Lamentations 5:6

  We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

• Ezekiel 16:59

  “‘For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

• Ezekiel 17:13

  He took some of the royal offspring, and made a covenant with him. He also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land;

• Ezekiel 17:14

  that the kingdom might be brought low, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.

• Ezekiel 17:15

  But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the covenant, and still escape?

• Ezekiel 17:16

  “‘As I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he will die.

• Ezekiel 17:17

  Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons.

• Ezekiel 17:18

  For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things. He won’t escape.

• Ezekiel 17:19

  “Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘As I live, surely my oath that he has despised, and my covenant that he has broken, I will even bring it on his own head.

• Daniel 9:27

  He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the middle of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be poured out on the desolate.

• Micah 7:20

  You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

• Malachi 2:4

  You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.

• Malachi 2:5

  “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.

• Luke 1:73

  the oath which he swore to Abraham, our father,

• Romans 9:7

  Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”

• Romans 9:8

  That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.

• Romans 9:9

  For this is a word of promise, “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”

• Romans 9:10

  Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.

• Romans 9:11

  For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

• Romans 9:12

  it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”

• Romans 9:13

  Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

• Galatians 3:15

  Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.

• Hebrews 6:13

  For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

• Hebrews 6:17

  In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

• Hebrews 6:18

  that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

• Hebrews 8:4

  For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;

• Hebrews 8:5

  who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”

• Hebrews 8:6

  But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

• Hebrews 8:7

  For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

• Hebrews 8:8

  For finding fault with them, he said, “Behold, the days come”, says the Lord, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

• Hebrews 8:9

  not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.

• Hebrews 8:10

  “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

• Hebrews 8:11

  They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know me, from their least to their greatest.

• Hebrews 8:12

  For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.”

• Hebrews 8:13

  In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

• Hebrews 12:18

  For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

• Hebrews 12:19

  the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,

• Hebrews 12:20

  for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”;

• Hebrews 12:21

  and so fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”

• Hebrews 12:22

  But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

• Hebrews 12:23

  to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

• Hebrews 12:24

  to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

• Hebrews 13:20

  Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,