Levítico 26

Levítico 26

Morgan - Because they walked contrary unto Me, I also walked contrary unto them. —Lev. 26.40, 41. In this chapter two gracious promises and solemn warnings are set forth. It opens with the reiteration of fundamental laws. There is to be no idolatry. There must be a constant observance of the Sabbath. The reverence of the Sanctuary must be maintained. Then follow the promises showing that conditions of well-being are entirely dependent upon obedience to the government of God. In like manner the warnings show that disobedience will always be followed by calamity. It is most suggestive to notice how, even in the giving of the Law, the declension and wandering of the people were known to the King, and yet, notwithstanding this fact, that these promises of final restoration were made. Thus human responsibility was solemnly enforced; and yet the whole chapter cannot be read without the conviction being created that the love of God will prove finally victorious over all failure. (ED: AMEN AND AMEN!) The words we stress reveal the law of the soul's relation to God perpetually. God is faithful and unchangeable. We may change our experience of His government by a change of attitude toward it. If we walk with Him, He walks with us, and all His infinite resources of wisdom and power and love are at our disposal. If we change our course, and walk contrary to Him, He pursues His way of wisdom, love, and power, but His goings are against us, and we experience the contradiction of His opposition. He remaineth faithful. He cannot deny Himself. Therefore we know His government as strength, helping or opposing, according to whether we walk with Him or contrary to Him. Leviticus 26:42 then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also My covenant with Isaac, and My covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land. NETS Septuagint - And I will remember the covenant of Iakob, and I will remember the covenant of Isaak and the covenant of Abraam, and I will remember the land. KJV Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. CSB then I will remember My covenant with Jacob. I will also remember My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. ESV then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. NLT Then I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. I will: Ge 9:16 Ex 2:24 6:5 De 4:31 Ps 106:45 Eze 16:60 Lu 1:72 and I will: Ps 85:1,2 136:23 Eze 36:1-15,33,34 Joel 2:18 Leviticus 26 Commentaries - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries Related Passages: Exodus 6:5+ “Furthermore I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant (CLEARLY REFERRING TO THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT EVEN COME TO MOUNT SINAI).. Psalm 106:45+ And He remembered His covenant for their sake, And relented according to the greatness of His lovingkindness. GOD'S COVENANT WITH THE PATRIARCHS Then (expression of time) It should always prompt at least the question "When?" For answer see "IF" (in Lev 26:40, 41) for what "event" has to transpire. In a word Israel would have to confess their sin and humble their heart, even these acts being energized by the Holy Spirit (cf Jn 16:8-9) I will remember...remember...remember - It is not that He would ever forget. (Ex 6:5; Ps 106:45) God remembered when the Jews groaned in Egyptian bondage (Ex 3:15-17). The promise of Lev 26:40-46 is similar to that in Deuteronomy 30, and there, too, God remembers the word he “swore to ... Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” (Dt 30:20). Solomon prayed that the Lord would hear the people’s prayer of repentance in captivity (1 Ki 8:46-53). Covenant (01285) see berit/berith/beriyth My covenant with Jacob...Isaac...Abraham (aka "the patriarchs") - This refers to the Abrahamic Covenant which preceded the conditional Mosaic Covenant. In Galatian 3:15-18 Paul explains the that the Law did not invalidate the Abrahamic Covenant. Brethren, I speak in terms of human relations: even though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been ratified, no one sets it aside or adds conditions to it. 16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as referring to many, but rather to one, “And to your seed,” that is, Christ. 17 What I am saying is this: the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise. 18 For if the inheritance is based on law, it is no longer based on a promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by means of a promise. (See notes) And I will remember the land - "That is, to cause it to be repeopled by its former inhabitants or their seed." (Bush) Paul declares that the promises to Israel and the fathers are “irrevocable” (Ro 11:28, 29). But the Jews will not fully re-inherit Palestine in peace and blessing until they return to the Lord, which will occur when He returns at the Second Coming. George Bush - Leviticus Notes Critical and Practical - Leviticus 26 Then will I remember my covenant. This remembrance on the part of God signifies his actual performance of the mercies promised; as appears from Ex. 6:5, 6, ‘I have remembered my covenant &c. and will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.’ So our remembering God’s precepts is explained, Ps. 103:18, as equivalent to doing them. See Note on Gen. 8:1. So again when Christ, ‘the horn of salvation.’ was raised up in the house of David, God is said, Luke 1:72+, ‘to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant.’ It is somewhat singular that in the original, the preposition answering to ‘with’ is omitted before each of the patriarchs’ names in this connexion, and the fact ought to have been indicated by the usual Italic sign, in our version. The reason of the omission, or the bearing it ought to have on the construction, was are incompetent to slate. The Gr. has μνησθησομαι της διαθηκης Ιακωβ, I will remember the covenant of Jacob, &c., omitting the suffix ‘my’ which occurs in the Hebrew. Leviticus 26:43 'For the land will be abandoned by them, and will make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making amends for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and their soul abhorred My statutes. NETS Septuagint - And the land shall be abandoned by them. Then the land shall accept its sabbaths while it was made desolate by them, and they themselves shall accept their lawlessness on account of which they disdained my judgments and were vexed in their soul by my ordinances. shall enjoy (KJV): Lev 26:34,35 and they (KJV): Lev 26:41 1Ki 8:46-48 2Ch 33:12 Job 5:17 34:31,32 Ps 50:15 Ps 119:67,71,75 Isa 26:16 Jer 31:19 Da 9:7-9,14 Heb 12:5-11 they despised (KJV): Lev 26:15 2Ki 17:7-17 2Ch 36:14-16 their soul (KJV): Lev 26:15,30 Ps 50:17 Am 5:10 Zec 11:8 Joh 7:7 15:23,24 Ro 8:7 Leviticus 26 Commentaries - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries For the land will be abandoned by them, and will make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them - Israel would not abandon the promised land by choice but by (divine) force! There was a debt to pay, for Israel had neglected the Sabbath years for 490 years! They, meanwhile, will be making amends for their iniquity - Making amends is the idea of paying for their sins, but does not suggest that this would then merit restoration to the land. It simply refers to the fact that Israel was suffering the consequences of their disobedience. NLT = "at last the people will pay for their sins, for they have continually rejected my regulations and despised my decrees." because - Term of explanation. Explaining why they are paying for their 470 years of Sabbath year disobedience. They rejected My ordinances and their soul abhorred My statutes - This is an amazing and frightening statement. The verb rejected carries the connotations of to despise or refuse. This was not sin of ignorance, but sin carried out willfully, in the full light of God's clear statutes! The Septuagint translates rejected (ma'as) with the rare verb huperorao which means to overlook, to disdain, to despise, "to disregard as not worthy of one’s notice" and "to indulgently take no notice of." (BDAG) Liddell-Scott adds that huperorao means to "look down upon!" This is tantamount to Israel carrying out "in Your face" disobedience to Yahweh! But here is the even more amazing truth. This same verb is used by Dr. Luke in Acts 17:30+ of the forgiving character of our amazing God, writing "Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent." In addition the same Hebrew verb rejected (ma'as) is used in the very next passage - "Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so abhor them as to destroy them, breaking My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God." Is this not the essence of Psalm 103:17 "But the lovingkindness of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, And His righteousness to children’s children." Brothers and sisters, this is OUR GREAT GOD! Rejected (03988)(ma'as) means to despise, to treat as loathsome (that which is repulsive, detestable, causing disgust). In Hosea 4:6 we see that Israel rejected (ma'as) knowledge and thus God rejected them. In 1Sa 8:7 God told Samuel "they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them." THOUGHT - To reject God's statutes it to reject His rule over one's life and to do so at the detriment of one's souls! We must continually remember that sin is costly and the wages ultimately are death! In an ironic twist Isaiah records that men will cast away (ma'as) their idols when they see how useless they are to help (Isa 31:6). George Bush - Leviticus Notes Critical and Practical - Leviticus 26 The land shall also be left of them. Heb. מהם mêhem, which may be rendered either by them, or on their account, for their sakes. This verse, in the connexion in which it stands, is somewhat obscure. As the tone of the context is bland and encouraging, we naturally inquire how it is that a transition is suddenly made to the language of threatening. It seems, on the whole, on comparing it with what follows, that the design of its introduction here is to heighten the expression of mercy in the ensuing verse. God had said in the preceding verse that he would ‘remember the land;’ but the favor involved in such a promise, could only be appreciated by a just view of the condition to which the land would have been reduced by reason of the sins of its inhabitants. Notwithstanding it should have been left destitute of its occupants, who were driven away into penal exile, and should thus remain desolate and uncultivated, enjoying the septennial sabbaths which had been denied it in their season, yet for all that, he would not forget or forego his mercies; he would remember the land by remembering its possessors, and bringing them back from their dispersion and planting them again within its borders. And shall enjoy her Sabbaths. Heb. תרץ את שבתתיה tiretz eth shabbethothëhâ. Gr. προσδεξεται τα σαββατα αυτης, shall receive her sabbaths. The true force of the language in this verse can be understood only by a correct explication of the original word for ‘enjoy,’ which is employed here and also in the subsequent clause, ‘shall accept (ירצו yirtzu) of the punishment of their iniquity.’ Its primary meaning is to have pleasure, delight, complacency in any thing; and the drift of the passage is undoubtedly to convey the idea, by an ironical intimation, that while the land in its desolation was having pleasure in its sabbaths, the people of Israel were also, if the expression could be allowed, having pleasure in the punishment of their iniquity. There would at least be so much of a parallel in the two cases, that the same form of speech should be employed in reference to both. It is indeed a bold figure of speech to represent the inhabitants as taking pleasure in the calamities which they had procured to themselves; but as they had voluntarily incurred them ‘despising the judgments of God and abhorring his statutes,’ when perfectly aware of the consequences, was he not authorized to charge them with having complacency in the course of transgression which they had adopted? He is but stating the legitimate conclusion to be drawn from the premises. On This view of the language it is not only strictly proper, but highly significant and emphatic, and pointed with the sting of a well merited rebuke. Because, even because they despised my judgments, &c. The particle is here doubled, to give intensity to the alleged reason of their calamities, and to intimate that it was nothing else than their deliberate rejection of the divine laws which bad procured them. If so, had they any grounds to be surprised that it was charged upon them that they preferred, were pleased with, enjoyed, the natural results of their conduct? This interpretation, it will be seen, perfectly harmonizes with that given above. Leviticus 26:44 'Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so abhor them as to destroy them, breaking My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God. NETS Septuagint - And not even when they were in the land of their enemies did I ever disdain them or was angered by them so as to destroy them utterly, to scatter to the wind my covenant with them; for it is I who am the Lord their God, I will not reject them Dt 4:29-31 2Ki 13:23 Ne 9:31 Ps 94:14 Eze 14:22,23 Ro 11:2,26 nor will I so abhor them as to destroy them: Lev 26:11 breaking My covenant with them Ps 89:33 Jer 14:21 33:20,21 Eze 16:60 Leviticus 26 Commentaries - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries YAHWEH IS A COVENANT KEEPER NOT A COVENANT BREAKER The chosen people of Israel have continued to exist as a distinct people for 3500 years despite being without a homeland for most of that period. This constitutes an amazing testimony to divine inspiration and fulfilled prophecy and God's faithfulness to His covenant promises! Before they had even entered their promised land, God had given Israel a prophetic warning that they would be scattered it if they disobeyed. And just as He prophesied, Israel was indeed scattered among the heathen lands and yet God refused to "destroy them utterly" or to "break my covenant with them" for He had made this promise to Abraham before they were even born (Ge 17:4-8). Yet in spite of this - Term of contrast and what a gracious contrast it is! Despite that fact that Israel rejected God's ordinances and their soul abhorred His statutes. When they are in the land of their enemies - This is not just a reference to Assyria and Babylon (the first aspect of the historical fulfillment of this prophecy), but to all of history, for wherever the Jews have lived, they have been hated and persecuted and killed by their enemies ( What is the cause of anti-Semitism?) and the global an anti-Semitism will come to fruition in the time of the Great Tribulation when two-thirds of the world's Jews will be exterminated while one-third will be saved (Zech 13:8-9+). I will not reject (ma'as) them - Don't miss the fact that the same verb was used in the preceding verse to describe Israel's rejection of Yahweh's statutes (and thus rejecting Yahweh Himself!) THOUGHT The Jews today may feel like God has rejected them, especially the Jews who had to endure the Nazi death camps, but the fact is the "non-lying" God gives a prophetic promise that He will not reject the Israelites as a people group. Why? Because He is forever faithful to the Abrahamic Covenant and He will be "the LORD their God!" Forever! Nor will I so abhor them as to destroy them, breaking My covenant with them - God will be faithful to His covenant. That is the reason He will not abhor Israel or destroy Israel in the future. Abhor (01602)(ga'al) describes an intense aversion which is expressed often in punitive or adverse action. To detest; abhor, loathe, vilely cast away. 5 of the 10 uses are in Leviticus 26, the first and the last being affirmations by Jehovah that He will not reject them (Lev 26:11, 44), of the Jews abhorring His ordinances (Lev 26:15, 43), of God abhorring them for their practice of idolatry (Lev 26:30). In Lev 26:11 the Lxx uses bdelusso (bdéo = stink or reek) is a verb which means literally to emit a foul odor or to render foul and figuratively means to strongly detest something on the basis that it is abominable (as used in Rev 21:8) (abominable = quite disagreeable, worthy of disgust, whatever is odious to the mind or offensive to the senses). In Greek usage bdelusso means to feel a nausea or loathing for food and so came to be used of disgust in general. And so the verb bdelusso pictures one turning away from a stench as in disgust. Most of the uses of ga'al are translated in Lxx with the verb prosochthizo which means to be very upset over something someone has done (of God's anger with Israel in the wilderness - Heb 3:10-note, Heb 3:17-note). For I am the LORD their God - God's Name Jehovah (Yahweh)(I Am) is His guarantee that He will be faithful to His covenant promises made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and through them to the nation of Israel. George Bush - The history of the Jewish people to the present day, is a standing proof of the truth of this merciful declaration. Though scattered and peeled, and pressed down by an unprecedented weight of misfortunes from age to age, yet they still subsist as a distinct people, and the covenant of future restoration remains to them unbroken (ED: See Dt 30:3+, Jer 29:14 Amos 9:14+, Zeph 3:20+, etal). 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NETS Septuagint - and I will remember their former covenant when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of slavery in the sight of the nations, to be their God; I am the Lord. for their (KJV): Ge 12:2 15:18 17:7,8 Ex 2:24 19:5,6 Lu 1:72,73 Ro 11:12,23-26,28,29 2Co 3:15,16 whom I (KJV): Lev 22:33 25:38 in the sight (KJV): Ps 98:2,3 Eze 20:9,14,22 Leviticus 26 Commentaries - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries I WILL BE THEIR GOD But I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors: The Abrahamic Covenant. I agree with Gordon Wenham who writes "What this remembering will mean in practice is not spelled out here, but Deut. 30:1-10, a similar passage in a similar context, explains that it will mean restoration to the land of promise and prosperity there. This would seem to be implicit in this Leviticus passage too." (NICOT - Leviticus) KJV STUDY BIBLE - The amazing truth of these verses is confounding to all atheists, skeptics and doubters. God promised that even while they were in their enemies’ land, He would not completely destroy them or break His covenant with them. Archaeology has uncovered the remains of the Canaanites, but where are they today? One can travel to the excavated ancient capital of the Hittites and the ruined cities of the Philistines, but they do not exist as a people today. Yet the Jew possesses a distinct identity. All know who the Jews are, no matter what country they reside in or what language they speak. This is truly a remarkable prophecy! Whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations - In the sight of the nations. God wanted the pagan nations to see and be drawn to Israel's God, but Israel intermingled with the pagans and spoiled her testimony of distinctiveness (holy unto the LORD). How is your testimony in the world? Are you in the world but not of it OR are you toying with the "toys" of the world and/or the passing pleasures of sin and thereby spoiling your testimony? That I might be their God - Though it is not stated directly, this phrase is clearly in a form that implies it is a description of the results of the New Covenant of Jehovah with Judah and Israel. Compare the following passages that have a similar description of the LORD... And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them. And I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh (NEW COVENANT), that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God. (Ezekiel 11:19-20-note) ‘For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land; and I will build them up and not overthrow them, and I will plant them and not pluck them up. I will give them a heart to know Me (NEW COVENANT), for I am the LORD; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart. (Jer 24:6-7) “Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD. 33 “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the LORD, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it (NEW COVENANT); and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. (Jer 31:31-33-note) Behold, I will gather them out of all the lands to which I have driven them in My anger, in My wrath and in great indignation; and I will bring them back to this place and make them dwell in safety. 38 “They shall be My people, and I will be their God; (Jer 32:37-38-note) “And I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David will be prince among them; I the LORD have spoken. I will make a covenant of peace with them and eliminate harmful beasts from the land so that they may live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. (Ezekiel 34:24-25) “Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations and no longer be divided into two kingdoms. They will no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God. (Ezek 37:21-23-note) “I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will place them and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in their midst forever. My dwelling place also will be with them; and I will be their God, and they will be My people. (Ezek 37:26-27-note) Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘Behold, I am going to save My people from the land of the east and from the land of the west; and I will bring them back and they will live in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God in truth and righteousness (NEW COVENANT).’ (Zec 8:7-8) I am the LORD - Literally "I am Yahweh". This phrase is like a "divine punctuation mark" which serves to authenticate all that has been said in this chapter. All the blessings and cursings will occur in Israel's history. The revival and restoration of Israel will occur in the future, in the "last days." Why? Because God is Jehovah, the omnipotent One. What trial, adversity or affliction is there in your life that you cannot trust Jehovah to give you relief and/or give you the ability by His Spirit to abide in Christ if the affliction continues for a little while? This phrase occurs 164x in 161v in the OT with none in the NT- Gen. 15:7; 28:13; Exod. 6:2,6ff,29; 7:5,17; 10:2; 12:12; 14:4,18; 16:12; 20:2; 29:46; 31:13; Lev. 11:44f; 18:2,4ff,21,30; 19:3f,10,12,14,16,18,25,28,30ff,34,36f; 20:7f,24; 21:12,15,23; 22:2f,8f,16,30ff; 23:22,43; 24:22; 25:17,38,55; 26:1f,13,44f; Num. 3:13,41,45; 10:10; 15:41; Deut. 5:6; 29:6; Jdg. 6:10; 1 Ki. 20:13,28; Isa. 41:13; 42:6,8; 43:3,11,15; 45:5ff,18; 48:17; 49:23; 51:15; Jer. 9:24; 24:7; 32:27; Ezek. 6:7,10,13f; 7:4,27; 11:10,12; 12:15f,20; 13:9,14,21,23; 14:8; 15:7; 16:62; 17:24; 20:5,7,12,19f,26,38,42,44; 22:16; 23:49; 24:24,27; 25:5,7,11,17; 26:6; 28:22ff,26; 29:6,9,16,21; 30:8,19,25f; 32:15; 33:29; 34:27; 35:4,9,15; 36:11,23,38; 37:6,13,28; 38:23; 39:6f,22,28; Joel 2:27; 3:17; Zech. 10:6 Leviticus has the most uses of I AM THE LORD (48v of 164v) with 15v in Lev 19:1-37 (Lev 19:3, 4, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 25, 28, 30, 31, 34, 36, 37) where each use serves to remind Israel why they were to obey God's regulations. The first use in the book of Leviticus summarizes why believers are to be holy, the reason of course being that God is eternally "I AM THE LORD." So beginning the book of Leviticus we read God's command to saints in both the Old and New Testaments ‘For (term of explanation = explains why He gave the previous charge in Lev 11:43) I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. And you shall not make yourselves unclean with any of the swarming things that swarm on the earth. 45 ‘For I am the LORD who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God; thus you shall be holy, for I am holy.’” (Lev 11:44-45-note) This charge to be holy is repeated by Peter Therefore (term of conclusion = "born again, etc" 1 Pe 1:3-note), prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14 As obedient children, do not be conformed (suschematizo [only other use = Ro 12:2-note] in the present tense = the only way to obey this charge continually is by continual reliance on the enabling power of the Spirit. Passive voice = the external forces seeking to conform our hearts to the godless world system = they will exert their influence continually which is why we need the Holy Spirit to continually enable holiness) to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, 15 but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; 16 because it is written, “YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.” (1 Peter 1:13-16-note) George Bush - Leviticus Notes Critical and Practical - Leviticus 26 I will for their sakes remember the covenant, &c. That is, for their good and advantage. He does not indeed, in this connexion expressly assure them of their being brought back to their own land, but the whole scope of the context requires us to understand it. How could he effectually remember them for good when in the land of their enemies, otherwise than by restoring their captivity? And why should he refer to the deliverance from Egypt, except to intimate that in like manner he would bring them to their own borders? Leviticus 26:46 These are the statutes and ordinances and laws which the LORD established between Himself and the sons of Israel through Moses at Mount Sinai. NETS Septuagint - These are the judgments and the ordinances and the law that the Lord established between him and between the sons of Israel on the mountain Sina by the hand of Moyses. These are the statutes and ordinances and laws: Lev 27:34 De 6:1 12:1 13:4 Joh 1:17 at Mount Sinai: Lev 25:1 which the LORD established: Lev 8:36 Nu 4:37 Ps 77:2 Leviticus 26 Commentaries - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries Mt Sinai by Eizen REMINDER OF THE MOSAIC COVENANT Kenneth Matthew - There is always an advantage for the speaker who has the last word in a discussion or debate. The last words in any conversation are typically the ones best remembered. Also, the expression the last word can refer to ultimate authority, such as, "The doctor has the last word on my physical therapy." That chapter 26 presents the Lord's "last word" on worship and holy living in Leviticus makes this chapter especially important for our Christian lives. The final verse of the chapter reads, "These are the statutes and rules and laws that the Lord made between him and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai" (Lev 26:46). This verse implies all of the instructions found in the whole book, not just chapter 26. The verse echoes the very first verse of the book: "The Lord called Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying..." (Lev 1:1). After that the Lord gave Moses the message of the book to the people. So chapter 26 wraps up the revelation made at the Tent of Meeting. (Leviticus: Holy God, Holy People) These are the statutes and ordinances and laws which the LORD established between Himself and the sons of Israel through Moses at Mount Sinai - In a sense (as discussed below) these words mark an end to the book of Leviticus. Notice that Moses is the mediator between Yahweh and men. Of course the ultimate and final mediator is Christ Jesus Paul writing For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, (1 Ti 2:5) John adds For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. (John 1:17+) And finally the writer of Hebrews states But now He (CHRIST JESUS) has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises. (Heb 8:6+) For this reason He (CHRIST JESUS) is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. (Heb 9:15+) George Bush comments that "This verse appears so peculiarly proper, as the conclusion of the whole book, that it is extremely difficult to account for the addition of the chapter which follows, containing matter of a ceremonial kind, such as would come in far more appropriately in a preceding part of the book. Adam Clarke proposes to solve the difficulty by supposing that there has been an accidental transposition of Leviticus 27, from where it belongs, at the close of Leviticus 25. Others think that Leviticus 27 was added after the book was finished; but nothing is certain, and we have to receive the sacred canon as we find it. Merrill Unger - These are the statutes and ordinances and laws (hahuqqim wehammispatim wehattorot)—Three terms are used to summarize the material of Leviticus 1-26. In this verse there does not appear to be a desire to make a distinction between them (for huqqa see Lev. 3:17; for mispat see Lev. 5:10; for torah see Lev. 6:9), but rather this is an effort to be all-inclusive so as not to eliminate any regulation given in the book of Leviticus. The terms "decrees" and "laws" represent the two Hebrew terms mispat and ljaq, which have been used as synonyms (9x) throughout Leviticus (cf. Lev. 18:4). Here translated "regulations," the term toil is used in parallel as a synonym to "decrees" and "laws." Throughout Leviticus the term "torah" is used in context to refer to a specific set of instructions (cf. Lev. 6:9 [6:2 MT]). Here, for the first time, it can be seen to have a broader nuance referring to the entire material of chapters 1-26. In the NT the term "torah" is used as synonymous with the entire Pentateuch (cf. Matt. 5:17; 11:13; 22:40; Luke 24:44; Acts 13:15; Rom. 3:21). This verse functions as the conclusion to the book of Leviticus. A comparison of Lev 26:46 with Lev 27:34 suggests that chapter 27 is an appendix. (The Bible Knowledge Key Word Study) Ordinances (04941)(mishpat/mispat from shaphat = to judge, govern) is a masculine noun used over 400x in the OT and has general meanings including a judgment, a legal decision, a legal case, a claim, proper, rectitude. Vine writes that mishpat/mispat "has two main senses; the first deals with the act of sitting as a judge, hearing a case, and rendering a proper verdict. Eccl. 12:14 is one such occurrence. Mishpat can also refer to the “rights” belonging to someone (Ex 23:6). This second sense carries several nuances: the sphere in which things are in proper relationship to one’s claims (Ge 18:19—first occurrence); a judicial verdict (Dt. 17:9); the statement of the case for the accused (Nu 27:5); and an established ordinance (Exod. 21:1). (Vine's Expository Dictionary) Mishpat/mispat is translated in a variety of ways in the NAS which gives you a sense of the many nuances of this Hebrew word: arrangements(1), case(5), case*(1), cause(7), charge(1), claim(1), court(2), crimes(1), custom(11), customs(2), decide(1), decision(2), decisions(1), deserving(1), destruction(1), due(1), injustice*(2), judge(1), judged(1), judgment(62), judgments(40), just(4), justice(118), justly(3), kind(1), manner(3), matters of justice(1), mode of life(1), order(1), ordinance(29), ordinances(79), plan(1), plans(1), practice(1), procedure(4), properly(2), regulation(1), right(8), rightful place(1), rights(2), rule(1), sentence(2), sentenced(1), standard(1), trial(1), unjustly*(1), verdict(1), way prescribed(2), what is right(2), worthy(1). This Hebrew noun can take on several nuances depending on the context. Here is Swanson's summary in Semantic Domains: 1. judgment, i.e., the act. of deciding a legal dispute or case (Dt 1:17); 2. court, i.e., a place where a legal case is decided (Dt 25:1; Job 9:32); 3. case, lawsuit, i.e., a legal action taken in court (2Sa 15:4); 4. decision, sentence, i.e., an official proclamation in a legal verdict (1Ki 20:40); 5. justice, i.e., a state or condition of fairness in disputes (Ex 23:6); 6. law, regulation, prescription, specification, i.e., a spoken or written command which is to be obeyed, often with penalties for non-compliance (Ex 21:1); 7. plan, formally, prescription, i.e., a graphic or verbal description of how to build something (Ex 26:30; 1Ki 6:38) 8. share, i.e., what is a just amount of a whole (Dt 18:3; 1Ki 4:28); 9. custom, practice, i.e., a behavior which is more or less fixed and accepted as a normal practice (1Sa 2:13); also part of a compound name, En Mishpat Gilbrant on mishpat/mispat "most often refers to dictates from leadership (1 Kings 20:40). In the plural, it is used in parallel with other terms for the commandments, laws, instructions and ordinances given by the Lord to Israel (Dt. 12:1; Ps. 119). Individual cases are referred to with this term as well (Ex 21:31; Nu. 27:5). The priests had "a breastpiece for making decisions" (Ex. 28:15NIV). Deuteronomy 1:17 says Moses charged the judges to judge fairly and not show partiality "for judgment belongs to God" (NIV). God's leaders were to seek to make good decisions in all the cases and situations they faced in leading and caring for God's people. God's kind of decisions are always just (Ge 18:19, 25). Therefore, mishpāt involves dispensing justice and was a strong part of the prophets' messages as they called the backslidden covenant people, and especially their leaders, back to his ways (Isa. 1:21; Amos 5:24; Mic. 3:1, 8; 6:8). It is a description of good government. Ultimately, the coming Servant of the Lord was to establish it in the earth (Isa. 42:3f). When God's decisions, which reveal his character and deal with sin, are in the world, people learn righteousness (Isa. 26:9). A more general use of the term for a custom or practice which was decided upon as a policy is found in some places (1 Sa 2:13; 27:11). Also the "plan" for the Tabernacle shown Moses on the mountain uses this word and thus may emphasize that it was a sovereign prescription from God (Exo. 26:30). Proverbs 16:33 says "The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision [mishpāt] is from the Lord" (NASB). (Complete Biblical Library Hebrew-English Dictionary) Unger on Ordinances - The term for "prescribed way" (Lev 5:10NIV) is mispat (translated "law" or "manner" in the KJV) but it is not the usual term for "law" or "torah." Rather, this term comes from a verb (§pf) meaning "judge, govern"(BDB, 1047). Culver suggests that in the OT there may be as many as 13 related, but distinct, aspects of this Hebrew word, all related to the concept of "justice" (R. Culver, see TWOT, 2:948-49). The noun first appears here in Leviticus, but when it is used in the plural it is often translated "ordinances, laws" (cf. Lev. 18:4). It is used as a noun 14x in Leviticus and except for here and 9:16 is used only in chapters 18-20 and 24-26. It carries here the idea of doing the sacrifice according to the lawful, prescribed manner. When speaking of God's reign and relationship with his creatures, the term is frequently allied with the concept of righteousness using the Hebrew words sedeq and s 'Maga. In Leviticus, when used in the plural, the word is always in parallel to 1115q (see Lev. 18:4), translated "decrees" (9x; 18:4, 5, 26; 19:37; 20:22; 25:18; 26:15, 43, 46). The Israelites must understand that because God is who he is, his instructions must be followed in his prescribed way in order to live righteously. (Ibid) Robert Culver Justice, ordinance, custom, manner. Represents what is doubtless the most important idea for correct understanding of government—whether of man by man or of the whole creation by God. Though rendered “judgment” in most of the four hundred or so appearances of mišpāṭ in the Hebrew Bible, this rendering is often defective for us moderns by reason of our novel way of distinctly separating legislative, executive, and judicial functions and functionaries in government. Hence šāpaṭ, the common verb (from which our word mišpaṭ is derived) meaning “to rule, govern,” referring to all functions of government is erroneously restricted to judicial processes only, whereas both the verb and noun include all these functions. An analysis of all uses in the Bible turns up at least thirteen related, but distinct, aspects of the central idea, which if to oe rendered by a single English word with similar range of meaning, ought by all means to be the word “justice.” Even the ASV, which inclines strongly toward regular rendering of Hebrew and Greek words has thus updated the rendering of mišpāṭ, though not regularly (contrast “thy judgments” [Ps 72:1] with “with justice” [Ps 72:2]). The noun mišpāṭ can be used to designate almost any aspect of civil or religious government, as follows: 1. The act of deciding a case of litigation brought before a civil magistrate. BDB finds 204 instances beginning at Ex 21:31–though RSV and NASB disallow this first, rendering otherwise. But most of the occurrences are very clear (Deut 25:1; Josh 20:6 are examples). 2. The place of deciding a case of litigation. A clear case of this rather rare (because indecisive) use is 1 Kgs 7:7. 3. The process of litigation is called mišpāṭ. There are many doubtful cases, it being hard to distinguish between meanings 1 and 2. An instance is Isa 3:14. “Litigation” would be an apt rendering for this class. The clearest instances employ ʿim with a following noun “a judgment with so-and-so” (Job 22:4 or ʾet (Ps 143:2). 4. A case of litigation (i.e. a specific cause brought to the magistrate). Solomon, e.g., asked God for understanding that he might “hear mišpāṭ.”—a case brought before him (1 Kgs 3:11, ASV marg.) If this case be disallowed (RSV) then Job’s ʿāraktî mišpāṭ (“I have set in order [my] case” 13:18) seems unassailable. See also 1 Kgs 8:59. This usage parallels the noun rîb. 5. A sentence or decision issuing from a magistrate’s court. This is very common. In such cases the prevalent “judgment” as rendering is entirely correct (1 Kgs 20:40). In Jer 26:11, 16 “worthy of death” renders mišpaṭ mawwet, in each case clearly meaning, a sentence of death. 6. The time of judgment. A clear case is Ps 1:5; Eccl 12:14, “God will bring every work into mišpāṭ” is close to presenting the same. BDB assert that “execution of judgment” in general is the meaning in a group including the preceeding instance. The cases cited, however, seem better classified in relation to the idea or attribute of justice. All the above are examples mainly of mišpāṭ in the judicial side of government. There now follows a use closely parallel to what men now think of as authority. 7. Sovereignty, the legal foundation of government in the sense of ultimate authority or right. Men today are accustomed to finding this in constitutions and the nature of man (“natural rights”) but in the Hebrew Scriptures (a) all authority is God’s and it is this authority which is denominated mišpāṭ. “The mišpāṭ is God’s” (Dt 1:17); "The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole mišpāṭ thereof is of the LORD (Pr 16:33). Individual men, as created by God, have inalienable mišpāṭîm (“rights”). (See R. D. Culver, Toward a Biblical View of Civil Government, 1974). (b) The magistrate’s mišpāṭ is conferred by God as best shown by the reference to King Messiah’s magisterial authority (Ps 72:1–2). Of course the doctrine of providence is basic to this idea (Ps 103:19; cf. Ro 13:1ff). This universal reign and rule of God seems to be the idea conveyed by mišpāṭ in Jer 8:7, “My people do not know the law (mišpāṭ) of God.” There are also uses involving the legislative side of government. 8. The attribute of justice in all correct personal civil administration is emphasized. (a) This justice is primarily an attribute of God, all true mišpāṭ finding its source in God himself and therefore carrying with it his demand. “When therefore the Scripture speaks of the mišpāṭ of God, as it frequently does, the word has a particular shade of meaning and that is not so much just statutes of God as the just claims of God. God, who is the Lord, can demand and He does demand” (Koehler, OT Theology, pp. 205–206). All the right (justice, authority, etc.) there is is his, “because Jehovah is the God of justice” (Isa 30:18; cf. Gen 18:25). God loves mišpāṭ in this sense (Ps 37:28). Psalm 36:6 in kĕtîb reads, “Thy mišpāṭ (singular) is a great abyss.” (b) mišpāṭ, as justice, i.e. rightness rooted in God’s character, ought to be an attribute of man in general and of judicial process among them (Ps 106:37). Wise men speak it (Ps 37:30) and think it (Pr 12:5) and God requires it of them (Mic 6:8). The righteous enjoy it (Pr 21:15) and righteous magistrates employ it in judgment (Mic 3:1; cf. Pr 29:4). 9. mišpāṭ also designates an ordinance of law—often used co-ordinately with ḥōq “ordinance” (Ex 15:25) and tôrâ “law” (Isa 42:4). The Pentateuchal ordinances are mišpāṭ (Lev 5:10; 9:16, et al.), in fact the individual ordinances of Mosaic law are mišpāṭ (Deut 33:10, 21; 16 times in Ps 119). 10. A plan (Ex 26:30) or 11. custom (2 Kgs 17:33) or even 12. a fitting measure taken (1 Kgs 5:8) seem to come under the scope of this word, though they are extended meanings, hardly standard. 13. One’s right under law, human or divine, is denominated mišpāṭ (Dt 18:3; Jer 32:7). Frequently associated with ṣedeq and ṣĕdāqâ in OT descriptions of God’s reign and ways with his creatures, this idea lies at the very heart of a true understanding of the Biblical world-and-life view. Note: The breastplate worn by the high priest is called a “breastplate of judgment” (Ex 28:15, 29–30), not from any alleged revelation given by the stones Urim and Thummim but because the breastplate covered Aaron’s heart and “they shall be upon Aaron’s heart when he goeth in before the Lord and Aaron shall bear the judgment (mišpāṭ) of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.” What Aaron was concerned with before God was Israel’s justification, i.e. judicial sentence (see above) of guiltiness. Thus “in prophetic vision as in actual oriental life, the sentence of justification was often expressed by the nature of the robe worn. …Isaiah 61:10 is a good illustration of this.” Also see Isa 62:3; Rev 3:5; 7:9; 19:14; Est 6:8–9, 12 (A. C. Hervey, Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible, Hackett ed., 11, pp. 1066–67). (Online Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament) Gesenius Definition - mishpat/mispat מִשְׁפָּט (from שָׁפַט) (1) judgment (a) used of the act of judging, Levit. 19:15, “do no unrighteousness in judgment;” verse 35 Leviticus 19:35; Deuteronomy 1:17 = “for the judgment (is) God’s.” Isaiah 28:6, = “he who sitteth in judgment.” Ezekiel 21:32 = “until he shall come whose the judgment is.” (b) of the place of judgment (= Ecclesiastes 3:16). to bring any one into judgment, Job 9:32, 22:4 Psalms 143:2 compare Job 14:3; Ecclesiastes 11:9. (c) a forensic cause, Numb. 27:5. עָרַךְ מִשְׁפָּט to set forth a cause, Job 13:18, 23:4.= to plead any one’s cause, to be his patron, Deuteronomy 10:18; Ps 9:5 (compare דִּין and to contend with any one, Jeremiah 12:1. my adversary, prop. he who has a cause with me = Isaiah 50:8. (d) sentence of a judge, 1 Kings 3:28, 20:40 Psalms 17:2 pl. judgments of the Lord, 19:10 119:75, 137 Psalms 119:137. Especially used of a sentence by which penalty is inflicted. מִשְׁפַּט מָוֶת sentence of death, Deut. 21:22 Jeremiah 26:11 = to pass a hard sentence upon one, to impose punishment upon him, Jeremiah 1:16, 4:12 39:5 52:9 2 Kings 25:6 (see the same phrase, let. c.) Also used of punishment [?], Isaiah 53:8. (e) fault, crime, for which one is judged, Jeremiah 51:9. מִשְׁפַּט דָּמִים capital crime, Ezekiel 7:23. (2) right, that which is just, lawful, according to law. to pervert right = Deut 16:19, 27:19 1 Samuel 8:3. to do judgment (right) and justice =Jeremiah 22:15, 23:5 33:15 Deuteronomy 32:4 = “all his ways (are) right,” i.e. just. just balances = Proverbs 16:11. according to what is right, =Jeremiah 46:28 and on the other hand, without right, Proverbs 16:11; Jeremiah 22:13. Specially (a) a law, a statute (as a rule of judging), Exodus 21:1, 24:3 often of the laws of God, Leviticus 18:4, Leviticus 18:5, 26 Leviticus 18:26, 19:37 20:22, seqq.; Deuteronomy 4:1, 7:11, 12 and collect, used of the body of laws (as we say, the law of Moses, the Justinian code), e.g. Isaiah 51:4 and simply מִשְׁפַּט 42:1, Isaiah 42:3, Isaiah 42:4, the divine law (i.q. תּוֹרָה), divine religion. (b) used of that which is lawfully due to any one, (privilege). right of redemption, = Jeremiah 32:7 right of primogeniture = Deuteronomy 21:17 and collect. regal right, or, regal rights and privileges = 1 Samuel 8:9, 11 1 Samuel 8:11, 10:25. The things due to the priests from the people = Deuteronomy 18:3 The privileges of daughters = Exodus 21:9. As laws have arisen not only from the will of a legislator, but also often from the manners and customs of nations, מ׳ is also (c) a manner, custom. 2 Kings 11:14, “and behold the king stood upon a standing place according to the manner;” 2Ki 17:33, 34 2 Kings 17:34, 40 2 Kings 17:40. Genesis 40:13, “in the former manner,” Exodus 26:30; Jeremiah 30:18. Hence (d) fashion, kind, plan. 2 Kings 1:7 = “what kind of a man was he?” Judges 13:12, =“what kind of a boy shall he be? and what will he do?” Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition noun masculine Genesis 40:13 judgment; — absolute Exodus 21:31 Ezekiel 44:24; construct מִשְׁמַּט Exodus 23:6 50t.; suffix מִשְׁמָּטִי Isaiah 40:27 +; מִשְׁמָּטָם Jeremiah 49:12 +; Numbers 27:5; plural Jeremiah 4:12 34t.; Deuteronomy 33:10 +, etc.; — 1 judgment: a. act of deciding a case: ׳מ belongeth to God Deuteronomy 1:17, is from him Proverbs 16:33; Proverbs 29:26; ׳אֱלֹהֵי הַמּ Malachi 2:17; Exodus 28:15 the pouch of judgment, so Exodus 28:29; Exodus 28:30 (P); worn on heart of Aaron Exodus 28:30 (P); Deuteronomy 16:18;Job 32:9; 1 Kings 3:28; 1 Kings 3:28; Deuteronomy 17:9; 2 Chronicles 19:6; ׳רוח מ Isaiah 28:6; במשׁפט Leviticus 19:15,35 (H) Deuteronomy 1:17; Proverbs 16:10; Proverbs 24:23; Numbers 27:21 (P); Numbers 35:12; Joshua 20:6 (P) Deuteronomy 17:8; Judges 4:5; 2 Samuel 15:2,6; 2 Chronicles 19:8; Isaiah 34:5; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 54:17; Isaiah 59:11; Habakkuk 1:12; Malachi 3:5; Psalm 9:8; Psalm 35:23; Psalm 76:10; Psalm 122:5; Job 9:19 ( Ezekiel 44:24 see above). b. place, court seat of judgment Deuteronomy 25:1; 1 Kings 7:7; Isaiah 28:6; Ecclesiastes 3:16. c. process, procedure, litigation before judges: ׳הֵבִיא במ Job 14:3; Ecclesiastes 11:9; Ecclesiastes 12:14; ׳בא במ, with עם Isaiah 3:14; Job 22:4, with את Psalm 143:2, with יחדו Job 9:32, ׳חלד במ Job 34:23, compare Ezekiel 34:16; Psalm 112:5; plural דבּר משׁפטים, with את litigate with Jeremiah 1:16; Jeremiah 4:12; Jeremiah 12:1; Jeremiah 39:5 = Jeremiah 52:9, singular מִשְׁמָּט in "" 2 Kings 25:6, by error. d. case or cause presented for judgment: ׳בעל מ Isaiah 50:8; ׳ערךְ מ Job 13:18; Job 23:4; ׳שׁמע מ 1 Kings 3:11; ׳שׁפט מ Lamentations 3:59, compare Numbers 27:5 (P) 2 Samuel 15:4. e. sentence, decision of judgment: 1 Kings 20:40 thus is thy sentence; Ecclesiastes 8:5,6 time and sentence; Deuteronomy 17:11 according to the sentence; Deuteronomy 19:6; Deuteronomy 21:22; Jeremiah 26:11,16; Ezekiel 7:23, compare Habakkuk 1:4 (twice in verse); Psalm 7:7; Psalm 17:2; Ezekiel 23:45; plural only Ezekiel 16:68 ; Hosea 6:5 read singular f. execution of judgment, in General, ׳עשׂה מ, with בֵּין Jeremiah 7:5; Ezekiel 18:8, compare Deuteronomy 32:41; Zephaniah 3:8; with בְּ against Psalm 119:84; Psalm 149:9; ב omitted Psalm 9:17; Ezekiel 39:21, בא אל׳מ Jeremiah 48:21, ׳ברוח מ Isaiah 4:4, מואב׳מ Jeremiah 48:47, compare Isaiah 53:8; Jeremiah 51:9; Hosea 5:1,11; Hosea 10:4; Job 36:17; plural Isaiah 26:8,9; Ezekiel 5:8; Zephaniah 3:15; Psalm 10:5; in favour of, עשׂה משׁפטִי Micah 7:9; Psalm 9:5; לעשׁוקים׳מ Psalm 146:7; והציל׳דין מ Jeremiah 21:12, compare Zechariah 7:9; Zechariah 8:16; plural Psalm 48:12 = Psalm 97:8 Psalm 6; Psalm 5; 7= 1 Chronicles 16:12,14. g. time of judgment, ׳לִא יקומו במ Psalm 1:5 (late; probably judgment of the resurrection). 2 attribute of theשֹׁפֵט, justice, right, rectitude: a. of God, Isaiah 30:18; Genesis 18:25 (J), compare Job 40:8; Deuteronomy 32:4; Psalm 111:7; he loves it Psalm 33:5; Psalm 37:28; Psalm 99:4; Hosea 2:21; Psalm 89:15 = Psalm 97:2; will not pervert it Job 8:3; Job 34:12, compare Job 37:23 Psalm 119:149 Psalm 36:7 (read singular). b. of man:׳אַשְׁרֵי שֹׁמְרֵי מ Psalm 106:8; the tongue of the wise speaketh ׳מ Psalm 37:30; so of thoughts ׳מ Proverbs 12:5; put on ׳מ as robe Job 29:14, chosen Job 34:4; ׳עשׂה מ: God requires that man should do it Micah 6:8; Isaiah 1:17; Isaiah 56:1, compare Isaiah 61:8; it is the joy of the righteous Proverbs 21:15; rulers should know it Micah 3:1, compare Proverbs 29:4; wicked ruler ׳שׂוֺנֵא מ Job 34:17; abhors it Micah 3:9, compare Proverbs 19:28; Proverbs 21:7; Proverbs 28:5. 3 ordinance promulgated 1 Samuel 8:9,11; 1 Samuel 10:25 (law of king); Levitical ordinances Leviticus 5:10; Leviticus 9:16 13t. P, 1 Chronicles 15:13; 1 Chronicles 24:19; 2 Chronicles 4:7,20; 8:14; 35:13; Nehemiah 8:18; ׳חק ומ Exodus 15:25; Joshua 24:25 (E) 1 Samuel 30:25, compare Psalm 81:5; ׳חקת מ Numbers 27:11; Numbers 35:29 (P); divine law in General יהוה׳מ Jeremiah 8:7; ׳מאלהים Isaiah 58:2; Jeremiah 5:4,5 ("" דֶּרֶךְ), compare Psalm 25:9; "" תורה Isaiah 42:4; Isaiah 51:4; Ezra 7:10; compare Zephaniah 2:3; Psalm 119:43; Psalm 119:160; plural of particular ordinances Deuteronomy 33:10,21 (poem), Isaiah 58:2; Ezekiel 44:24; Psalm 19:10; Psalm 119:7 16t., Psalm 147:20. 4 decision of the שֹׁפֵט in a case of law: singular of particular decision of a case Exodus 21:31 (E); plural of series of decisions Exodus 21:1; Exodus 24:3 (JE) Deuteronomy 7:12 (D2); in covt. code and D, collection of pentads in conditional or temporal compare, with כּי or אםin D, and subject in combination, Deuteronomy 4:1. 5. 8. 14. 45 +; in code of H and after, in combination Leviticus 18:4,5,26; Leviticus 19:37; other combinations, redactional and later, Leviticus 26:46; Numbers 36:13; Deuteronomy 30:16; 2 Kings 17:37; 2 Chronicles 33:8; Nehemiah 9:13; Psalm 18:23; Psalm 89:31; Psalm 147:19. 5 one's (legal) right, privilege, due: Deuteronomy 18:3 due of the priests, Deuteronomy 21:17;Jeremiah 32:7 right of redemption; Jeremiah 32:8; ׳הִטָּה מ Exodus 23:6 (E) wrest right, so Deuteronomy 16:19; Deuteronomy 23:6; Deuteronomy 24:17; Deuteronomy 27:19; 1 Samuel 8:3; Lamentations 3:35, compare Proverbs 18:5; יְתוֺם׳מ Deuteronomy 10:18; אביון׳מ Exodus 23:6 (E) Jeremiah 5:28; Psalm 140:13; עניים׳מ Isaiah 10:2; Job 36:6; ׳הסיר מ Job 27:2; Job 34:5, compare Isaiah 40:27; Isaiah 49:4. 6. a. proper, fitting, measure 1 Kings 5:8; fitness Isaiah 28:26; Isaiah 40:14 (of fitness in the order of nature; compare Di). b. custom, manner: 1 Samuel 2:13 custom of the priests ( rightful due, according to Th We Dr and most); מִשְׁמָּטוֺ 1 Samuel 27:11 his (David's) custom; ׳מהגוים 2 Kings 17:33 manner of the nations, compare 2 Kings 17:26,27 (Rs sem. 1,24, 2nd ed. 23); ׳כמ after the manner, custom, fashion (of) Genesis 40:13; Exodus 21:9 (E) Judges 18:7; 1 Kings 18:28; 2 Kings 11:14; 2 Kings 17:34; 1 Chronicles 6:17; Ezekiel 42:11; Psalm 119:132. c. Judges 13:12 what manner of a boy, compare 2 Kings 1:7. d. plan . . . of the tabernacle Exodus 26:30 (P); temple 1 Kings 6:38; palace Jeremiah 30:18. Mishpat/mispat - 403 verses in the OT (see above for ways it is translated in the NAS) Gen. 18:19; Gen. 18:25; Gen. 40:13; Exod. 15:25; Exod. 21:1; Exod. 21:9; Exod. 21:31; Exod. 23:6; Exod. 24:3; Exod. 26:30; Exod. 28:15; Exod. 28:29; Exod. 28:30; Lev. 5:10; Lev. 9:16; Lev. 18:4; Lev. 18:5; Lev. 18:26; Lev. 19:15; Lev. 19:35; Lev. 19:37; Lev. 20:22; Lev. 24:22; Lev. 25:18; Lev. 26:15; Lev. 26:43; Lev. 26:46; Num. 9:3; Num. 9:14; Num. 15:16; Num. 15:24; Num. 27:5; Num. 27:11; Num. 27:21; Num. 29:6; Num. 29:18; Num. 29:21; Num. 29:24; Num. 29:27; Num. 29:30; Num. 29:33; Num. 29:37; Num. 35:12; Num. 35:24; Num. 35:29; Num. 36:13; Deut. 1:17; Deut. 4:1; Deut. 4:5; Deut. 4:8; Deut. 4:14; Deut. 4:45; Deut. 5:1; Deut. 5:31; Deut. 6:1; Deut. 6:20; Deut. 7:11; Deut. 7:12; Deut. 8:11; Deut. 10:18; Deut. 11:1; Deut. 11:32; Deut. 12:1; Deut. 16:18; Deut. 16:19; Deut. 17:8; Deut. 17:9; Deut. 17:11; Deut. 18:3; Deut. 19:6; Deut. 21:17; Deut. 21:22; Deut. 24:17; Deut. 25:1; Deut. 26:16; Deut. 26:17; Deut. 27:19; Deut. 30:16; Deut. 32:4; Deut. 32:41; Deut. 33:10; Deut. 33:21; Jos. 6:15; Jos. 20:6; Jos. 24:25; Jdg. 4:5; Jdg. 13:12; Jdg. 18:7; 1 Sam. 2:13; 1 Sam. 8:3; 1 Sam. 8:9; 1 Sam. 8:11; 1 Sam. 10:25; 1 Sam. 27:11; 1 Sam. 30:25; 2 Sam. 8:15; 2 Sam. 15:2; 2 Sam. 15:4; 2 Sam. 15:6; 2 Sam. 22:23; 1 Ki. 2:3; 1 Ki. 3:11; 1 Ki. 3:28; 1 Ki. 4:28; 1 Ki. 6:12; 1 Ki. 6:38; 1 Ki. 7:7; 1 Ki. 8:45; 1 Ki. 8:49; 1 Ki. 8:58; 1 Ki. 8:59; 1 Ki. 9:4; 1 Ki. 10:9; 1 Ki. 11:33; 1 Ki. 18:28; 1 Ki. 20:40; 2 Ki. 1:7; 2 Ki. 11:14; 2 Ki. 17:26; 2 Ki. 17:27; 2 Ki. 17:33; 2 Ki. 17:34; 2 Ki. 17:37; 2 Ki. 17:40; 1 Chr. 6:32; 1 Chr. 15:13; 1 Chr. 16:12; 1 Chr. 16:14; 1 Chr. 18:14; 1 Chr. 22:13; 1 Chr. 23:31; 1 Chr. 24:19; 1 Chr. 28:7; 2 Chr. 4:7; 2 Chr. 4:20; 2 Chr. 6:35; 2 Chr. 6:39; 2 Chr. 7:17; 2 Chr. 8:14; 2 Chr. 9:8; 2 Chr. 19:6; 2 Chr. 19:8; 2 Chr. 19:10; 2 Chr. 30:16; 2 Chr. 33:8; 2 Chr. 35:13; Ezr. 3:4; Ezr. 7:10; Neh. 1:7; Neh. 8:18; Neh. 9:13; Neh. 9:29; Neh. 10:29; Job 8:3; Job 9:19; Job 9:32; Job 13:18; Job 14:3; Job 19:7; Job 22:4; Job 23:4; Job 27:2; Job 29:14; Job 31:13; Job 32:9; Job 34:4; Job 34:5; Job 34:6; Job 34:12; Job 34:17; Job 34:23; Job 35:2; Job 36:6; Job 36:17; Job 37:23; Job 40:8; Ps. 1:5; Ps. 7:6; Ps. 9:4; Ps. 9:7; Ps. 9:16; Ps. 10:5; Ps. 17:2; Ps. 18:22; Ps. 19:9; Ps. 25:9; Ps. 33:5; Ps. 35:23; Ps. 36:6; Ps. 37:6; Ps. 37:28; Ps. 37:30; Ps. 48:11; Ps. 72:1; Ps. 72:2; Ps. 76:9; Ps. 81:4; Ps. 89:14; Ps. 89:30; Ps. 94:15; Ps. 97:2; Ps. 97:8; Ps. 99:4; Ps. 101:1; Ps. 103:6; Ps. 105:5; Ps. 105:7; Ps. 106:3; Ps. 111:7; Ps. 112:5; Ps. 119:7; Ps. 119:13; Ps. 119:20; Ps. 119:30; Ps. 119:39; Ps. 119:43; Ps. 119:52; Ps. 119:62; Ps. 119:75; Ps. 119:84; Ps. 119:91; Ps. 119:102; Ps. 119:106; Ps. 119:108; Ps. 119:120; Ps. 119:121; Ps. 119:132; Ps. 119:137; Ps. 119:149; Ps. 119:156; Ps. 119:160; Ps. 119:164; Ps. 119:175; Ps. 122:5; Ps. 140:12; Ps. 143:2; Ps. 146:7; Ps. 147:19; Ps. 147:20; Ps. 149:9; Prov. 1:3; Prov. 2:8; Prov. 2:9; Prov. 8:20; Prov. 12:5; Prov. 13:23; Prov. 16:8; Prov. 16:10; Prov. 16:11; Prov. 16:33; Prov. 17:23; Prov. 18:5; Prov. 19:28; Prov. 21:3; Prov. 21:7; Prov. 21:15; Prov. 24:23; Prov. 28:5; Prov. 29:4; Prov. 29:26; Eccl. 3:16; Eccl. 5:8; Eccl. 8:5; Eccl. 8:6; Eccl. 11:9; Eccl. 12:14; Isa. 1:17; Isa. 1:21; Isa. 1:27; Isa. 3:14; Isa. 4:4; Isa. 5:7; Isa. 5:16; Isa. 9:7; Isa. 10:2; Isa. 16:5; Isa. 26:8; Isa. 26:9; Isa. 28:6; Isa. 28:17; Isa. 28:26; Isa. 30:18; Isa. 32:1; Isa. 32:7; Isa. 32:16; Isa. 33:5; Isa. 34:5; Isa. 40:14; Isa. 40:27; Isa. 41:1; Isa. 42:1; Isa. 42:3; Isa. 42:4; Isa. 49:4; Isa. 50:8; Isa. 51:4; Isa. 53:8; Isa. 54:17; Isa. 56:1; Isa. 58:2; Isa. 59:8; Isa. 59:9; Isa. 59:11; Isa. 59:14; Isa. 59:15; Isa. 61:8; Jer. 1:16; Jer. 4:2; Jer. 4:12; Jer. 5:1; Jer. 5:4; Jer. 5:5; Jer. 5:28; Jer. 7:5; Jer. 8:7; Jer. 9:24; Jer. 10:24; Jer. 12:1; Jer. 17:11; Jer. 21:12; Jer. 22:3; Jer. 22:13; Jer. 22:15; Jer. 23:5; Jer. 26:11; Jer. 26:16; Jer. 30:11; Jer. 30:18; Jer. 32:7; Jer. 32:8; Jer. 33:15; Jer. 46:28; Jer. 48:21; Jer. 48:47; Jer. 49:12; Jer. 51:9; Lam. 3:35; Lam. 3:59; Ezek. 5:6; Ezek. 5:7; Ezek. 5:8; Ezek. 7:23; Ezek. 7:27; Ezek. 11:12; Ezek. 11:20; Ezek. 16:38; Ezek. 18:5; Ezek. 18:8; Ezek. 18:9; Ezek. 18:17; Ezek. 18:19; Ezek. 18:21; Ezek. 18:27; Ezek. 20:11; Ezek. 20:13; Ezek. 20:16; Ezek. 20:18; Ezek. 20:19; Ezek. 20:21; Ezek. 20:24; Ezek. 20:25; Ezek. 21:27; Ezek. 22:29; Ezek. 23:24; Ezek. 23:45; Ezek. 33:14; Ezek. 33:16; Ezek. 33:19; Ezek. 34:16; Ezek. 36:27; Ezek. 37:24; Ezek. 39:21; Ezek. 42:11; Ezek. 44:24; Ezek. 45:9; Dan. 9:5; Hos. 2:19; Hos. 5:1; Hos. 5:11; Hos. 6:5; Hos. 10:4; Hos. 12:6; Amos 5:7; Amos 5:15; Amos 5:24; Amos 6:12; Mic. 3:1; Mic. 3:8; Mic. 3:9; Mic. 6:8; Mic. 7:9; Hab. 1:4; Hab. 1:7; Hab. 1:12; Zeph. 2:3; Zeph. 3:5; Zeph. 3:8; Zeph. 3:15; Zech. 7:9; Zech. 8:16; Mal. 2:17; Mal. 3:5; Mal. 4:4 All 431 verses of Shamar Genesis 2:15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. Genesis 3:24 So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life. Genesis 4:9 Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?" Genesis 17:9 God said further to Abraham, "Now as for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations. Genesis 17:10 "This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: every male among you shall be circumcised. Genesis 18:19 "For I have chosen him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken about him." Genesis 24:6 Then Abraham said to him, "Beware that you do not take my son back there! Genesis 26:5 because Abraham obeyed Me and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My laws." Genesis 28:15 "Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you." Genesis 28:20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I take, and will give me food to eat and garments to wear, Genesis 30:31 So he said, "What shall I give you?" And Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this one thing for me, I will again pasture and keep your flock: Genesis 31:24 God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night and said to him, "Be careful that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad." Genesis 31:29 "It is in my power to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Be careful not to speak either good or bad to Jacob.' Genesis 37:11 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind. Genesis 41:35 "Then let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and store up the grain for food in the cities under Pharaoh's authority, and let them guard it. Exodus 10:28 Then Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me! Beware, do not see my face again, for in the day you see my face you shall die!" Exodus 12:17 'You shall also observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent ordinance. Exodus 12:24 "And you shall observe this event as an ordinance for you and your children forever. Exodus 12:25 "When you enter the land which the LORD will give you, as He has promised, you shall observe this rite. Exodus 13:10 "Therefore, you shall keep this ordinance at its appointed time from year to year. Exodus 15:26 And He said, "If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your healer." Exodus 16:28 Then the LORD said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My instructions? Exodus 19:5 'Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; Exodus 19:12 "You shall set bounds for the people all around, saying, 'Beware that you do not go up on the mountain or touch the border of it; whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death. Exodus 20:6 but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. Exodus 21:29 "If, however, an ox was previously in the habit of goring and its owner has been warned, yet he does not confine it and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death. Exodus 21:36 "Or if it is known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not confined it, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall become his. Exodus 22:7 "If a man gives his neighbor money or goods to keep for him and it is stolen from the man's house, if the thief is caught, he shall pay double. Exodus 22:10 "If a man gives his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep for him, and it dies or is hurt or is driven away while no one is looking, Exodus 23:13 "Now concerning everything which I have said to you, be on your guard; and do not mention the name of other gods, nor let them be heard from your mouth. Exodus 23:15 "You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. And none shall appear before Me empty-handed. Exodus 23:20 "Behold, I am going to send an angel before you to guard you along the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. Exodus 23:21 "Be on your guard before him and obey his voice; do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your transgression, since My name is in him. Exodus 31:13 "But as for you, speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'You shall surely observe My sabbaths; for this is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you. Exodus 31:14 'Therefore you are to observe the sabbath, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people. Exodus 31:16 'So the sons of Israel shall observe the sabbath, to celebrate the sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.' Exodus 34:11 "Be sure to observe what I am commanding you this day: behold, I am going to drive out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite. Exodus 34:12 "Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst. Exodus 34:18 "You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt. Leviticus 8:35 "At the doorway of the tent of meeting, moreover, you shall remain day and night for seven days and keep the charge of the LORD, so that you will not die, for so I have been commanded." Leviticus 18:4 'You are to perform My judgments and keep My statutes, to live in accord with them; I am the LORD your God. Leviticus 18:5 'So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which a man may live if he does them; I am the LORD. Leviticus 18:26 'But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you Leviticus 18:30 'Thus you are to keep My charge, that you do not practice any of the abominable customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; I am the LORD your God.'" Leviticus 19:3 'Every one of you shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep My sabbaths; I am the LORD your God. Leviticus 19:19 'You are to keep My statutes. You shall not breed together two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear a garment upon you of two kinds of material mixed together. Leviticus 19:30 'You shall keep My sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am the LORD. Leviticus 19:37 'You shall thus observe all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them; I am the LORD.'" Leviticus 20:8 'You shall keep My statutes and practice them; I am the LORD who sanctifies you. Leviticus 20:22 'You are therefore to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them, so that the land to which I am bringing you to live will not spew you out. Leviticus 22:9 'They shall therefore keep My charge, so that they will not bear sin because of it and die thereby because they profane it; I am the LORD who sanctifies them. Leviticus 22:31 "So you shall keep My commandments, and do them; I am the LORD. Leviticus 25:18 'You shall thus observe My statutes and keep My judgments, so as to carry them out, that you may live securely on the land. Leviticus 26:2 'You shall keep My sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary; I am the LORD. Leviticus 26:3 'If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out, Numbers 1:53 "But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that there will be no wrath on the congregation of the sons of Israel. So the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the testimony." Numbers 3:7 "They shall perform the duties for him and for the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle. Numbers 3:8 "They shall also keep all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, along with the duties of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle. Numbers 3:10 "So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons that they may keep their priesthood, but the layman who comes near shall be put to death." Numbers 3:28 In the numbering of every male from a month old and upward, there were 8,600, performing the duties of the sanctuary. Numbers 3:32 and Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest was the chief of the leaders of Levi, and had the oversight of those who perform the duties of the sanctuary. Numbers 3:38 Now those who were to camp before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrise, are Moses and Aaron and his sons, performing the duties of the sanctuary for the obligation of the sons of Israel; but the layman coming near was to be put to death. Numbers 6:24 The LORD bless you, and keep you; Numbers 8:26 "They may, however, assist their brothers in the tent of meeting, to keep an obligation, but they themselves shall do no work. Thus you shall deal with the Levites concerning their obligations." Numbers 9:19 Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, the sons of Israel would keep the LORD'S charge and not set out. Numbers 9:23 At the command of the LORD they camped, and at the command of the LORD they set out; they kept the LORD'S charge, according to the command of the LORD through Moses. Numbers 18:3 "And they shall thus attend to your obligation and the obligation of all the tent, but they shall not come near to the furnishings of the sanctuary and the altar, or both they and you will die. Numbers 18:4 "They shall be joined with you and attend to the obligations of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; but an outsider may not come near you. Numbers 18:5 "So you shall attend to the obligations of the sanctuary and the obligations of the altar, so that there will no longer be wrath on the sons of Israel. Numbers 18:7 "But you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar and inside the veil, and you are to perform service. I am giving you the priesthood as a bestowed service, but the outsider who comes near shall be put to death." Numbers 23:12 He replied, "Must I not be careful to speak what the LORD puts in my mouth?" Numbers 28:2 "Command the sons of Israel and say to them, 'You shall be careful to present My offering, My food for My offerings by fire, of a soothing aroma to Me, at their appointed time.' Numbers 31:30 "From the sons of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys and of the sheep, from all the animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the LORD." Numbers 31:47 and from the sons of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animals, and gave them to the Levites, who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. Deuteronomy 2:4 and command the people, saying, "You will pass through the territory of your brothers the sons of Esau who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So be very careful; Deuteronomy 4:2 "You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. Deuteronomy 4:6 "So keep and do them, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes and say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.' Deuteronomy 4:9 "Only give heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your sons and your grandsons. Deuteronomy 4:15 "So watch yourselves carefully, since you did not see any form on the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire, Deuteronomy 4:23 "So watch yourselves, that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a graven image in the form of anything against which the LORD your God has commanded you. Deuteronomy 4:40 "So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am giving you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may live long on the land which the LORD your God is giving you for all time." Deuteronomy 5:1 Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I am speaking today in your hearing, that you may learn them and observe them carefully. Deuteronomy 5:10 but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. Deuteronomy 5:12 'Observe the sabbath day to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. Deuteronomy 5:29 'Oh that they had such a heart in them, that they would fear Me and keep all My commandments always, that it may be well with them and with their sons forever! Deuteronomy 6:2 so that you and your son and your grandson might fear the LORD your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged. Deuteronomy 6:3 "O Israel, you should listen and be careful to do it, that it may be well with you and that you may multiply greatly, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. Deuteronomy 6:12 then watch yourself, that you do not forget the LORD who brought you from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Deuteronomy 6:17 "You should diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and His testimonies and His statutes which He has commanded you. Deuteronomy 6:25 "It will be righteousness for us if we are careful to observe all this commandment before the LORD our God, just as He commanded us. Deuteronomy 7:8 but because the LORD loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the LORD brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Deuteronomy 7:9 "Know therefore that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments; Deuteronomy 7:11 "Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them. Deuteronomy 7:12 "Then it shall come about, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you His covenant and His lovingkindness which He swore to your forefathers. Deuteronomy 8:1 "All the commandments that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give to your forefathers. Deuteronomy 8:2 "You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. Deuteronomy 8:6 "Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him. Deuteronomy 8:11 "Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding you today; Deuteronomy 10:13 and to keep the LORD'S commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good? Deuteronomy 11:1 "You shall therefore love the LORD your God, and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments. Deuteronomy 11:8 "You shall therefore keep every commandment which I am commanding you today, so that you may be strong and go in and possess the land into which you are about to cross to possess it; Deuteronomy 11:16 "Beware that your hearts are not deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods and worship them. Deuteronomy 11:22 "For if you are careful to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and hold fast to Him, Deuteronomy 11:32 and you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you today. Deuteronomy 12:1 "These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall carefully observe in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess as long as you live on the earth. Deuteronomy 12:13 "Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every cultic place you see, Deuteronomy 12:19 "Be careful that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land. Deuteronomy 12:28 "Be careful to listen to all these words which I command you, so that it may be well with you and your sons after you forever, for you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God. Deuteronomy 12:30 beware that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, 'How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise?' Deuteronomy 12:32 "Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away from it. Deuteronomy 13:4 "You shall follow the LORD your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him. Deuteronomy 13:18 if you will listen to the voice of the LORD your God, keeping all His commandments which I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the sight of the LORD your God. Deuteronomy 15:9 "Beware that there is no base thought in your heart, saying, 'The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,' and your eye is hostile toward your poor brother, and you give him nothing; then he may cry to the LORD against you, and it will be a sin in you. Deuteronomy 16:1 "Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night. Deuteronomy 16:12 "You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes. Deuteronomy 17:10 "You shall do according to the terms of the verdict which they declare to you from that place which the LORD chooses; and you shall be careful to observe according to all that they teach you. Deuteronomy 19:9 if you carefully observe all this commandment which I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in His ways always-- then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three. Deuteronomy 23:9 "When you go out as an army against your enemies, you shall keep yourself from every evil thing. Deuteronomy 23:23 "You shall be careful to perform what goes out from your lips, just as you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God, what you have promised. Deuteronomy 24:8 "Be careful against an infection of leprosy, that you diligently observe and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you; as I have commanded them, so you shall be careful to do. Deuteronomy 26:16 "This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul. Deuteronomy 26:17 "You have today declared the LORD to be your God, and that you would walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments and His ordinances, and listen to His voice. Deuteronomy 26:18 "The LORD has today declared you to be His people, a treasured possession, as He promised you, and that you should keep all His commandments; Deuteronomy 27:1 Then Moses and the elders of Israel charged the people, saying, "Keep all the commandments which I command you today. Deuteronomy 28:1 "Now it shall be, if you diligently obey the LORD your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. Deuteronomy 28:9 "The LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways. Deuteronomy 28:45 "So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. Deuteronomy 28:58 "If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honored and awesome name, the LORD your God, Deuteronomy 29:9 "So keep the words of this covenant to do them, that you may prosper in all that you do. Deuteronomy 30:10 if you obey the LORD your God to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law, if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and soul. Deuteronomy 30:16 in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you may live and multiply, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it. Deuteronomy 31:12 "Assemble the people, the men and the women and children and the alien who is in your town, so that they may hear and learn and fear the LORD your God, and be careful to observe all the words of this law. Deuteronomy 33:9 Who said of his father and his mother, 'I did not consider them'; And he did not acknowledge his brothers, Nor did he regard his own sons, For they observed Your word, And kept Your covenant. Joshua 1:7 "Only be strong and very courageous; be careful to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you go. Joshua 1:8 "This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success. Joshua 6:18 "But as for you, only keep yourselves from the things under the ban, so that you do not covet them and take some of the things under the ban, and make the camp of Israel accursed and bring trouble on it. Joshua 10:18 Joshua said, "Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave, and assign men by it to guard them, Joshua 22:2 and said to them, "You have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you. Joshua 22:3 "You have not forsaken your brothers these many days to this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God. Joshua 22:5 "Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul." Joshua 23:6 "Be very firm, then, to keep and do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, so that you may not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left, Joshua 23:11 "So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the LORD your God. Joshua 24:17 for the LORD our God is He who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did these great signs in our sight and preserved us through all the way in which we went and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed. Judges 1:24 The spies saw a man coming out of the city and they said to him, "Please show us the entrance to the city and we will treat you kindly." Judges 2:22 in order to test Israel by them, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk in it as their fathers did, or not." Judges 7:19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just posted the watch; and they blew the trumpets and smashed the pitchers that were in their hands. Judges 13:4 "Now therefore, be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing. Judges 13:13 So the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, "Let the woman pay attention to all that I said. Judges 13:14 "She should not eat anything that comes from the vine nor drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; let her observe all that I commanded." 1 Samuel 1:12 Now it came about, as she continued praying before the LORD, that Eli was watching her mouth. 1 Samuel 2:9 "He keeps the feet of His godly ones, But the wicked ones are silenced in darkness; For not by might shall a man prevail. 1 Samuel 7:1 And the men of Kiriath-jearim came and took the ark of the LORD and brought it into the house of Abinadab on the hill, and consecrated Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD. 1 Samuel 9:24 Then the cook took up the leg with what was on it and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, "Here is what has been reserved! Set it before you and eat, because it has been kept for you until the appointed time, since I said I have invited the people." So Saul ate with Samuel that day. 1 Samuel 13:13 Samuel said to Saul, "You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, for now the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. 1 Samuel 13:14 "But now your kingdom shall not endure. The LORD has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart, and the LORD has appointed him as ruler over His people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you." 1 Samuel 17:20 So David arose early in the morning and left the flock with a keeper and took the supplies and went as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the circle of the camp while the army was going out in battle array shouting the war cry. 1 Samuel 17:22 Then David left his baggage in the care of the baggage keeper, and ran to the battle line and entered in order to greet his brothers. 1 Samuel 19:2 So Jonathan told David saying, "Saul my father is seeking to put you to death. Now therefore, please be on guard in the morning, and stay in a secret place and hide yourself. 1 Samuel 19:11 Then Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, in order to put him to death in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be put to death." 1 Samuel 21:4 The priest answered David and said, "There is no ordinary bread on hand, but there is consecrated bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women." 1 Samuel 25:21 Now David had said, "Surely in vain I have guarded all that this man has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him; and he has returned me evil for good. 1 Samuel 26:15 So David said to Abner, "Are you not a man? And who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not guarded your lord the king? For one of the people came to destroy the king your lord. 1 Samuel 26:16 "This thing that you have done is not good. As the LORD lives, all of you must surely die, because you did not guard your lord, the LORD'S anointed. And now, see where the king's spear is and the jug of water that was at his head." 1 Samuel 28:2 David said to Achish, "Very well, you shall know what your servant can do." So Achish said to David, "Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life." 1 Samuel 30:23 Then David said, "You must not do so, my brothers, with what the LORD has given us, who has kept us and delivered into our hand the band that came against us. 2 Samuel 11:16 So it was as Joab kept watch on the city, that he put Uriah at the place where he knew there were valiant men. 2 Samuel 15:16 So the king went out and all his household with him. But the king left ten concubines to keep the house. 2 Samuel 16:21 Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house; then all Israel will hear that you have made yourself odious to your father. The hands of all who are with you will also be strengthened." 2 Samuel 18:12 The man said to Joab, "Even if I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I would not put out my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king charged you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, 'Protect for me the young man Absalom!' 2 Samuel 20:3 Then David came to his house at Jerusalem, and the king took the ten women, the concubines whom he had left to keep the house, and placed them under guard and provided them with sustenance, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as widows. 2 Samuel 20:10 But Amasa was not on guard against the sword which was in Joab's hand so he struck him in the belly with it and poured out his inward parts on the ground, and did not strike him again, and he died. Then Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri. 2 Samuel 22:22 "For I have kept the ways of the LORD, And have not acted wickedly against my God. 2 Samuel 22:24 "I was also blameless toward Him, And I kept myself from my iniquity. 2 Samuel 22:44 "You have also delivered me from the contentions of my people; You have kept me as head of the nations; A people whom I have not known serve me. 2 Samuel 23:5 "Truly is not my house so with God? For He has made an everlasting covenant with me, Ordered in all things, and secured; For all my salvation and all my desire, Will He not indeed make it grow? 1 Kings 2:3 "Keep the charge of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His ordinances, and His testimonies, according to what is written in the Law of Moses, that you may succeed in all that you do and wherever you turn, 1 Kings 2:4 so that the LORD may carry out His promise which He spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your sons are careful of their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.' 1 Kings 2:43 "Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD, and the command which I have laid on you?" 1 Kings 3:6 Then Solomon said, "You have shown great lovingkindness to Your servant David my father, according as he walked before You in truth and righteousness and uprightness of heart toward You; and You have reserved for him this great lovingkindness, that You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. 1 Kings 3:14 "If you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and commandments, as your father David walked, then I will prolong your days." 1 Kings 6:12 "Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes and execute My ordinances and keep all My commandments by walking in them, then I will carry out My word with you which I spoke to David your father. 1 Kings 8:23 He said, "O LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing lovingkindness to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart, 1 Kings 8:24 who have kept with Your servant, my father David, that which You have promised him; indeed, You have spoken with Your mouth and have fulfilled it with Your hand as it is this day. 1 Kings 8:25 "Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, keep with Your servant David my father that which You have promised him, saying, 'You shall not lack a man to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way to walk before Me as you have walked.' 1 Kings 8:58 that He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances, which He commanded our fathers. 1 Kings 8:61 "Let your heart therefore be wholly devoted to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day." 1 Kings 9:4 "As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you and will keep My statutes and My ordinances, 1 Kings 9:6 "But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, 1 Kings 11:10 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not observe what the LORD had commanded. 1 Kings 11:11 So the LORD said to Solomon, "Because you have done this, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant. 1 Kings 11:34 'Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of My servant David whom I chose, who observed My commandments and My statutes; 1 Kings 11:38 'Then it will be, that if you listen to all that I command you and walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight by observing My statutes and My commandments, as My servant David did, then I will be with you and build you an enduring house as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you. 1 Kings 13:21 and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, 'Because you have disobeyed the command of the LORD, and have not observed the commandment which the LORD your God commanded you, 1 Kings 14:8 and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you-- yet you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only that which was right in My sight; 1 Kings 14:27 So King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed them to the care of the commanders of the guard who guarded the doorway of the king's house. 1 Kings 20:39 As the king passed by, he cried to the king and said, "Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside and brought a man to me and said, 'Guard this man; if for any reason he is missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.' 2 Kings 6:9 The man of God sent word to the king of Israel saying, "Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Arameans are coming down there." 2 Kings 6:10 The king of Israel sent to the place about which the man of God had told him; thus he warned him, so that he guarded himself there, more than once or twice. 2 Kings 9:14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. Now Joram with all Israel was defending Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram, 2 Kings 10:31 But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel sin. 2 Kings 11:5 He commanded them, saying, "This is the thing that you shall do: one third of you, who come in on the sabbath and keep watch over the king's house 2 Kings 11:6 (one third also shall be at the gate Sur, and one third at the gate behind the guards), shall keep watch over the house for defense. 2 Kings 11:7 "Two parts of you, even all who go out on the sabbath, shall also keep watch over the house of the LORD for the king. 2 Kings 12:9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid and put it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of the LORD; and the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money which was brought into the house of the LORD. 2 Kings 17:13 Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah through all His prophets and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets." 2 Kings 17:19 Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the customs which Israel had introduced. 2 Kings 17:37 "The statutes and the ordinances and the law and the commandment which He wrote for you, you shall observe to do forever; and you shall not fear other gods. 2 Kings 18:6 For he clung to the LORD; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the LORD had commanded Moses. 2 Kings 21:8 "And I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them." 2 Kings 22:4 "Go up to Hilkiah the high priest that he may count the money brought in to the house of the LORD which the doorkeepers have gathered from the people. 2 Kings 22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter); and they spoke to her. 2 Kings 23:3 The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant. 2 Kings 23:4 Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the doorkeepers, to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. 2 Kings 25:18 Then the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest, with the three officers of the temple. 1 Chronicles 9:19 Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his relatives of his father's house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent; and their fathers had been over the camp of the LORD, keepers of the entrance. 1 Chronicles 10:13 So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against the LORD, because of the word of the LORD which he did not keep; and also because he asked counsel of a medium, making inquiry of it, 1 Chronicles 12:29 Of the sons of Benjamin, Saul's kinsmen, 3,000; for until now the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul. 1 Chronicles 22:12 "Only the LORD give you discretion and understanding, and give you charge over Israel, so that you may keep the law of the LORD your God. 1 Chronicles 22:13 "Then you will prosper, if you are careful to observe the statutes and the ordinances which the LORD commanded Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous, do not fear nor be dismayed. 1 Chronicles 23:32 Thus they are to keep charge of the tent of meeting, and charge of the holy place, and charge of the sons of Aaron their relatives, for the service of the house of the LORD. 1 Chronicles 28:8 "So now, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek after all the commandments of the LORD your God so that you may possess the good land and bequeath it to your sons after you forever. 1 Chronicles 29:18 "O LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, our fathers, preserve this forever in the intentions of the heart of Your people, and direct their heart to You; 1 Chronicles 29:19 and give to my son Solomon a perfect heart to keep Your commandments, Your testimonies and Your statutes, and to do them all, and to build the temple, for which I have made provision." 2 Chronicles 5:11 When the priests came forth from the holy place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, without regard to divisions), 2 Chronicles 6:14 He said, "O LORD, the God of Israel, there is no god like You in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and showing lovingkindness to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart; 2 Chronicles 6:15 who has kept with Your servant David, my father, that which You have promised him; indeed You have spoken with Your mouth and have fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day. 2 Chronicles 6:16 "Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, keep with Your servant David, my father, that which You have promised him, saying, 'You shall not lack a man to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way, to walk in My law as you have walked before Me.' 2 Chronicles 7:17 "As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, even to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My ordinances, 2 Chronicles 12:10 Then King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place and committed them to the care of the commanders of the guard who guarded the door of the king's house. 2 Chronicles 13:11 "Every morning and evening they burn to the LORD burnt offerings and fragrant incense, and the showbread is set on the clean table, and the golden lampstand with its lamps is ready to light every evening; for we keep the charge of the LORD our God, but you have forsaken Him. 2 Chronicles 19:7 "Now then let the fear of the LORD be upon you; be very careful what you do, for the LORD our God will have no part in unrighteousness or partiality or the taking of a bribe." 2 Chronicles 23:6 "But let no one enter the house of the LORD except the priests and the ministering Levites; they may enter, for they are holy. And let all the people keep the charge of the LORD. 2 Chronicles 33:8 and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them according to all the law, the statutes and the ordinances given through Moses." 2 Chronicles 34:9 They came to Hilkiah the high priest and delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the doorkeepers, had collected from Manasseh and Ephraim, and from all the remnant of Israel, and from all Judah and Benjamin and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 2 Chronicles 34:21 "Go, inquire of the LORD for me and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book which has been found; for great is the wrath of the LORD which is poured out on us because our fathers have not observed the word of the LORD, to do according to all that is written in this book." 2 Chronicles 34:22 So Hilkiah and those whom the king had told went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, the keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter); and they spoke to her regarding this. 2 Chronicles 34:31 Then the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD to walk after the LORD, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant written in this book. Ezra 8:29 "Watch and keep them until you weigh them before the leading priests, the Levites and the heads of the fathers' households of Israel at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD." Nehemiah 1:5 I said, "I beseech You, O LORD God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who preserves the covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments, Nehemiah 1:7 "We have acted very corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances which You commanded Your servant Moses. Nehemiah 1:9 but if you return to Me and keep My commandments and do them, though those of you who have been scattered were in the most remote part of the heavens, I will gather them from there and will bring them to the place where I have chosen to cause My name to dwell.' Nehemiah 2:8 and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress which is by the temple, for the wall of the city and for the house to which I will go." And the king granted them to me because the good hand of my God was on me. Nehemiah 3:29 After them Zadok the son of Immer carried out repairs in front of his house. And after him Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the East Gate, carried out repairs. Nehemiah 9:32 "Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and lovingkindness, Do not let all the hardship seem insignificant before You, Which has come upon us, our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers and on all Your people, From the days of the kings of Assyria to this day. Nehemiah 10:29 are joining with their kinsmen, their nobles, and are taking on themselves a curse and an oath to walk in God's law, which was given through Moses, God's servant, and to keep and to observe all the commandments of GOD our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes; Nehemiah 11:19 Also the gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon and their brethren who kept watch at the gates, were 172. Nehemiah 12:45 For they performed the worship of their God and the service of purification, together with the singers and the gatekeepers in accordance with the command of David and of his son Solomon. Nehemiah 13:22 And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come as gatekeepers to sanctify the sabbath day. For this also remember me, O my God, and have compassion on me according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness. Esther 2:3 "Let the king appoint overseers in all the provinces of his kingdom that they may gather every beautiful young virgin to the citadel of Susa, to the harem, into the custody of Hegai, the king's eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let their cosmetics be given them. Esther 2:8 So it came about when the command and decree of the king were heard and many young ladies were gathered to the citadel of Susa into the custody of Hegai, that Esther was taken to the king's palace into the custody of Hegai, who was in charge of the women. Esther 2:14 In the evening she would go in and in the morning she would return to the second harem, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch who was in charge of the concubines. She would not again go in to the king unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name. Esther 2:15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai who had taken her as his daughter, came to go in to the king, she did not request anything except what Hegai, the king's eunuch who was in charge of the women, advised. And Esther found favor in the eyes of all who saw her. Esther 2:21 In those days, while Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king's officials from those who guarded the door, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. Esther 6:2 It was found written what Mordecai had reported concerning Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs who were doorkeepers, that they had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. Job 2:6 So the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your power, only spare his life." Job 10:12 'You have granted me life and lovingkindness; And Your care has preserved my spirit. Job 10:14 If I sin, then You would take note of me, And would not acquit me of my guilt. Job 13:27 "You put my feet in the stocks And watch all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet, Job 14:16 "For now You number my steps, You do not observe my sin. Job 22:15 "Will you keep to the ancient path Which wicked men have trod, Job 23:11 "My foot has held fast to His path; I have kept His way and not turned aside. Job 24:15 "The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, Saying, 'No eye will see me.' And he disguises his face. Job 29:2 "Oh that I were as in months gone by, As in the days when God watched over me; Job 33:11 'He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches all my paths.' Job 36:21 "Be careful, do not turn to evil, For you have preferred this to affliction. Job 39:1 "Do you know the time the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the deer? Psalm 12:7 You, O LORD, will keep them; You will preserve him from this generation forever. Psalm 16:1 A Mikhtam of David. Preserve me, O God, for I take refuge in You. Psalm 17:4 As for the deeds of men, by the word of Your lips I have kept from the paths of the violent. Psalm 17:8 Keep me as the apple of the eye; Hide me in the shadow of Your wings Psalm 18:21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, And have not wickedly departed from my God. Psalm 18:23 I was also blameless with Him, And I kept myself from my iniquity. Psalm 19:11 Moreover, by them Your servant is warned; In keeping them there is great reward. Psalm 25:20 Guard my soul and deliver me; Do not let me be ashamed, for I take refuge in You. Psalm 31:6 I hate those who regard vain idols, But I trust in the LORD. Psalm 34:20 He keeps all his bones, Not one of them is broken. Psalm 37:28 For the LORD loves justice And does not forsake His godly ones; They are preserved forever, But the descendants of the wicked will be cut off. Psalm 37:34 Wait for the LORD and keep His way, And He will exalt you to inherit the land; When the wicked are cut off, you will see it. Psalm 37:37 Mark the blameless man, and behold the upright; For the man of peace will have a posterity. Psalm 39:1 For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, "I will guard my ways That I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth as with a muzzle While the wicked are in my presence." Psalm 41:2 The LORD will protect him and keep him alive, And he shall be called blessed upon the earth; And do not give him over to the desire of his enemies. Psalm 56:6 They attack, they lurk, They watch my steps, As they have waited to take my life. Psalm 59:9 Because of his strength I will watch for You, For God is my stronghold. Psalm 71:10 For my enemies have spoken against me; And those who watch for my life have consulted together, Psalm 78:10 They did not keep the covenant of God And refused to walk in His law; Psalm 78:56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God And did not keep His testimonies, Psalm 86:2 Preserve my soul, for I am a godly man; O You my God, save Your servant who trusts in You. Psalm 89:28 "My lovingkindness I will keep for him forever, And My covenant shall be confirmed to him. Psalm 89:31 If they violate My statutes And do not keep My commandments, Psalm 91:11 For He will give His angels charge concerning you, To guard you in all your ways. Psalm 97:10 Hate evil, you who love the LORD, Who preserves the souls of His godly ones; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked. Psalm 99:7 He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud; They kept His testimonies And the statute that He gave them. Psalm 103:18 To those who keep His covenant And remember His precepts to do them. Psalm 105:45 So that they might keep His statutes And observe His laws, Praise the LORD! Psalm 106:3 How blessed are those who keep justice, Who practice righteousness at all times! Psalm 107:43 Who is wise? Let him give heed to these things, And consider the lovingkindnesses of the LORD. Psalm 116:6 The LORD preserves the simple; I was brought low, and He saved me. Psalm 119:4 You have ordained Your precepts, That we should keep them diligently. Psalm 119:5 Oh that my ways may be established To keep Your statutes! Psalm 119:8 I shall keep Your statutes; Do not forsake me utterly! Beth. Psalm 119:9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Your word. Psalm 119:17 Deal bountifully with Your servant, That I may live and keep Your word. Psalm 119:34 Give me understanding, that I may observe Your law And keep it with all my heart. Psalm 119:44 So I will keep Your law continually, Forever and ever. Psalm 119:55 O LORD, I remember Your name in the night, And keep Your law. Psalm 119:57 The LORD is my portion; I have promised to keep Your words. Psalm 119:60 I hastened and did not delay To keep Your commandments. Psalm 119:63 I am a companion of all those who fear You, And of those who keep Your precepts. Psalm 119:67 Before I was afflicted I went astray, But now I keep Your word. Psalm 119:88 Revive me according to Your lovingkindness, So that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth. Lamedh. Psalm 119:101 I have restrained my feet from every evil way, That I may keep Your word. Psalm 119:106 I have sworn and I will confirm it, That I will keep Your righteous ordinances. Psalm 119:134 Redeem me from the oppression of man, That I may keep Your precepts. Psalm 119:136 My eyes shed streams of water, Because they do not keep Your law. Tsadhe. Psalm 119:146 I cried to You; save me And I shall keep Your testimonies. Psalm 119:158 I behold the treacherous and loathe them, Because they do not keep Your word. Psalm 119:167 My soul keeps Your testimonies, And I love them exceedingly. Psalm 119:168 I keep Your precepts and Your testimonies, For all my ways are before You. Tav. Psalm 121:3 He will not allow your foot to slip; He who keeps you will not slumber. Psalm 121:4 Behold, He who keeps Israel Will neither slumber nor sleep. Psalm 121:5 The LORD is your keeper; The LORD is your shade on your right hand. Psalm 121:7 The LORD will protect you from all evil; He will keep your soul. Psalm 121:8 The LORD will guard your going out and your coming in From this time forth and forever. Psalm 127:1 A Song of Ascents, of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman keeps awake in vain. Psalm 130:3 If You, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? Psalm 130:6 My soul waits for the Lord More than the watchmen for the morning; Indeed, more than the watchmen for the morning. Psalm 132:12 "If your sons will keep My covenant And My testimony which I will teach them, Their sons also shall sit upon your throne forever." Psalm 140:4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; Preserve me from violent men Who have purposed to trip up my feet. Psalm 141:9 Keep me from the jaws of the trap which they have set for me, And from the snares of those who do iniquity. Psalm 145:20 The LORD keeps all who love Him, But all the wicked He will destroy. Psalm 146:6 Who made heaven and earth, The sea and all that is in them; Who keeps faith forever; Psalm 146:9 The LORD protects the strangers; He supports the fatherless and the widow, But He thwarts the way of the wicked. Proverbs 2:8 Guarding the paths of justice, And He preserves the way of His godly ones. Proverbs 2:11 Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you, Proverbs 2:20 So you will walk in the way of good men And keep to the paths of the righteous. Proverbs 3:26 For the LORD will be your confidence And will keep your foot from being caught. Proverbs 4:4 Then he taught me and said to me, "Let your heart hold fast my words; Keep my commandments and live; Proverbs 4:6 "Do not forsake her, and she will guard you; Love her, and she will watch over you. Proverbs 4:21 Do not let them depart from your sight; Keep them in the midst of your heart. Proverbs 5:2 That you may observe discretion And your lips may reserve knowledge. Proverbs 6:22 When you walk about, they will guide you; When you sleep, they will watch over you; And when you awake, they will talk to you. Proverbs 6:24 To keep you from the evil woman, From the smooth tongue of the adulteress. Proverbs 7:1 My son, keep my words And treasure my commandments within you. Proverbs 7:2 Keep my commandments and live, And my teaching as the apple of your eye. Proverbs 7:5 That they may keep you from an adulteress, From the foreigner who flatters with her words. Proverbs 8:32 "Now therefore, O sons, listen to me, For blessed are they who keep my ways. Proverbs 8:34 "Blessed is the man who listens to me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at my doorposts. Proverbs 10:17 He is on the path of life who heeds instruction, But he who ignores reproof goes astray. Proverbs 13:3 The one who guards his mouth preserves his life; The one who opens wide his lips comes to ruin. Proverbs 13:18 Poverty and shame will come to him who neglects discipline, But he who regards reproof will be honored. Proverbs 14:3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod for his back, But the lips of the wise will protect them. Proverbs 15:5 A fool rejects his father's discipline, But he who regards reproof is sensible. Proverbs 16:17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil; He who watches his way preserves his life. Proverbs 19:8 He who gets wisdom loves his own soul; He who keeps understanding will find good. Proverbs 19:16 He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, But he who is careless of conduct will die. Proverbs 21:23 He who guards his mouth and his tongue, Guards his soul from troubles. Proverbs 22:5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; He who guards himself will be far from them. Proverbs 22:18 For it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, That they may be ready on your lips. Proverbs 27:18 He who tends the fig tree will eat its fruit, And he who cares for his master will be honored. Proverbs 28:4 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, But those who keep the law strive with them. Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained, But happy is he who keeps the law. Ecclesiastes 3:6 A time to search and a time to give up as lost; A time to keep and a time to throw away. Ecclesiastes 5:1 Guard your steps as you go to the house of God and draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know they are doing evil. Ecclesiastes 5:8 If you see oppression of the poor and denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be shocked at the sight; for one official watches over another official, and there are higher officials over them. Ecclesiastes 5:13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being hoarded by their owner to his hurt. Ecclesiastes 8:2 I say, "Keep the command of the king because of the oath before God. Ecclesiastes 8:5 He who keeps a royal command experiences no trouble, for a wise heart knows the proper time and procedure. Ecclesiastes 11:4 He who watches the wind will not sow and he who looks at the clouds will not reap. Ecclesiastes 12:3 in the day that the watchmen of the house tremble, and mighty men stoop, the grinding ones stand idle because they are few, and those who look through windows grow dim; Ecclesiastes 12:13 The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person. Song of Solomon 3:3 "The watchmen who make the rounds in the city found me, And I said, 'Have you seen him whom my soul loves?' Song of Solomon 5:7 "The watchmen who make the rounds in the city found me, They struck me and wounded me; The guardsmen of the walls took away my shawl from me. Isaiah 7:4 and say to him, 'Take care and be calm, have no fear and do not be fainthearted because of these two stubs of smoldering firebrands, on account of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah. Isaiah 21:11 The oracle concerning Edom. One keeps calling to me from Seir, "Watchman, how far gone is the night? Watchman, how far gone is the night?" Isaiah 21:12 The watchman says, "Morning comes but also night. If you would inquire, inquire; Come back again." Isaiah 26:2 "Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter, The one that remains faithful. Isaiah 42:20 You have seen many things, but you do not observe them; Your ears are open, but none hears. Isaiah 56:1 Thus says the LORD, "Preserve justice and do righteousness, For My salvation is about to come And My righteousness to be revealed. Isaiah 56:2 "How blessed is the man who does this, And the son of man who takes hold of it; Who keeps from profaning the sabbath, And keeps his hand from doing any evil." Isaiah 56:4 For thus says the LORD, "To the eunuchs who keep My sabbaths, And choose what pleases Me, And hold fast My covenant, Isaiah 56:6 "Also the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, To minister to Him, and to love the name of the LORD, To be His servants, every one who keeps from profaning the sabbath And holds fast My covenant; Isaiah 62:6 On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; All day and all night they will never keep silent. You who remind the LORD, take no rest for yourselves; Jeremiah 3:5 'Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?' Behold, you have spoken And have done evil things, And you have had your way." Jeremiah 4:17 'Like watchmen of a field they are against her round about, Because she has rebelled against Me,' declares the LORD. Jeremiah 5:24 'They do not say in their heart, "Let us now fear the LORD our God, Who gives rain in its season, Both the autumn rain and the spring rain, Who keeps for us The appointed weeks of the harvest." Jeremiah 8:7 "Even the stork in the sky Knows her seasons; And the turtledove and the swift and the thrush Observe the time of their migration; But My people do not know The ordinance of the LORD. Jeremiah 9:4 "Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor, And do not trust any brother; Because every brother deals craftily, And every neighbor goes about as a slanderer. Jeremiah 16:11 "Then you are to say to them, 'It is because your forefathers have forsaken Me,' declares the LORD, 'and have followed other gods and served them and bowed down to them; but Me they have forsaken and have not kept My law. Jeremiah 17:21 'Thus says the LORD, "Take heed for yourselves, and do not carry any load on the sabbath day or bring anything in through the gates of Jerusalem. Jeremiah 20:10 For I have heard the whispering of many, "Terror on every side! Denounce him; yes, let us denounce him!" All my trusted friends, Watching for my fall, say: "Perhaps he will be deceived, so that we may prevail against him And take our revenge on him." Jeremiah 31:10 Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, And declare in the coastlands afar off, And say, "He who scattered Israel will gather him And keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock." Jeremiah 35:4 and I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was near the chamber of the officials, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the doorkeeper. Jeremiah 35:18 Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father, kept all his commands and done according to all that he commanded you; Jeremiah 51:12 Lift up a signal against the walls of Babylon; Post a strong guard, Station sentries, Place men in ambush! For the LORD has both purposed and performed What He spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. Jeremiah 52:24 Then the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest, with the three officers of the temple. Ezekiel 11:20 that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God. Ezekiel 17:14 that the kingdom might be in subjection, not exalting itself, but keeping his covenant that it might continue. Ezekiel 18:19 "Yet you say, 'Why should the son not bear the punishment for the father's iniquity?' When the son has practiced justice and righteousness and has observed all My statutes and done them, he shall surely live. Ezekiel 18:21 "But if the wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed and observes all My statutes and practices justice and righteousness, he shall surely live; he shall not die. Ezekiel 20:18 "I said to their children in the wilderness, 'Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols. Ezekiel 20:19 'I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and observe them. Ezekiel 20:21 "But the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, nor were they careful to observe My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live; they profaned My sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath on them, to accomplish My anger against them in the wilderness. Ezekiel 36:27 "I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances. Ezekiel 37:24 "My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them. Ezekiel 40:45 He said to me, "This is the chamber which faces toward the south, intended for the priests who keep charge of the temple; Ezekiel 40:46 but the chamber which faces toward the north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who from the sons of Levi come near to the LORD to minister to Him." Ezekiel 43:11 "If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the house, its structure, its exits, its entrances, all its designs, all its statutes, and all its laws. And write it in their sight, so that they may observe its whole design and all its statutes and do them. Ezekiel 44:8 "And you have not kept charge of My holy things yourselves, but you have set foreigners to keep charge of My sanctuary." Ezekiel 44:14 "Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the house, of all its service and of all that shall be done in it. Ezekiel 44:15 "But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept charge of My sanctuary when the sons of Israel went astray from Me, shall come near to Me to minister to Me; and they shall stand before Me to offer Me the fat and the blood," declares the Lord GOD. Ezekiel 44:16 "They shall enter My sanctuary; they shall come near to My table to minister to Me and keep My charge. Ezekiel 44:24 "In a dispute they shall take their stand to judge; they shall judge it according to My ordinances. They shall also keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed feasts and sanctify My sabbaths. Ezekiel 48:11 "It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept My charge, who did not go astray when the sons of Israel went astray as the Levites went astray. Daniel 9:4 I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed and said, "Alas, O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments, Hosea 4:10 They will eat, but not have enough; They will play the harlot, but not increase, Because they have stopped giving heed to the LORD. Hosea 12:6 Therefore, return to your God, Observe kindness and justice, And wait for your God continually. Hosea 12:12 Now Jacob fled to the land of Aram, And Israel worked for a wife, And for a wife he kept sheep. Hosea 12:13 But by a prophet the LORD brought Israel from Egypt, And by a prophet he was kept. Amos 1:11 Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of Edom and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because he pursued his brother with the sword, While he stifled his compassion; His anger also tore continually, And he maintained his fury forever. Amos 2:4 Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of Judah and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because they rejected the law of the LORD And have not kept His statutes; Their lies also have led them astray, Those after which their fathers walked. Jonah 2:8 "Those who regard vain idols Forsake their faithfulness, Micah 6:16 "The statutes of Omri And all the works of the house of Ahab are observed; And in their devices you walk. Therefore I will give you up for destruction And your inhabitants for derision, And you will bear the reproach of My people." Micah 7:5 Do not trust in a neighbor; Do not have confidence in a friend. From her who lies in your bosom Guard your lips. Zechariah 3:7 "Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'If you will walk in My ways and if you will perform My service, then you will also govern My house and also have charge of My courts, and I will grant you free access among these who are standing here. Zechariah 11:11 So it was broken on that day, and thus the afflicted of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the LORD. Malachi 2:7 "For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and men should seek instruction from his mouth; for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts. Malachi 2:9 "So I also have made you despised and abased before all the people, just as you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality in the instruction. Malachi 2:15 "But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while he was seeking a godly offspring? Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth. Malachi 2:16 "For I hate divorce," says the LORD, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with wrong," says the LORD of hosts. "So take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously." Malachi 3:7 "From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you," says the LORD of hosts. "But you say, 'How shall we return?' Malachi 3:14 "You have said, 'It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourning before the LORD of hosts?