Let us make covenant with the Lord our God
A covenant is an agreement, or a treaty or a contract between two people or party. The Almighty God who made us like to establish and maintain a covenant relationship with us right from the beginning.
God made special covenant relationship with Noah before and after the flood came in this world as in (Gen 6:18 NIV) But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark--you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you. After the flood (Gen 9:9 NIV) "I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you. Also in (Gen 9:11 NIV) I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."
God gives a sign for the covenant he made with Noah as in (Gen 9:12 NIV) And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: (Gen 9:13 NIV) I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. (Gen 9:15 NIV) I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. (Gen 9:16 NIV) Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth." (Gen 9:17 NIV) So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth."
Exo 34:8 & 9, “Moses bowed to the ground at once and worshiped. Vs.9, "O Lord, if I have found favor in your eyes," he said, "then let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wickedness and our sin, and take us as your inheritance."
Exo 34:10 Then the LORD said: " I am making a covenant with you . Exo 34:11 Obey what I command you today.
• Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in the entire world.
• The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the LORD, will do for you.
• I will drive out before you the Amorites,
• I will drive out before you the Canaanites,
• I will drive out before you the Hittites,
• I will drive out before you the Perizzites,
• I will drive out before you the Hivites
• I will drive out before you the Jebusites.
Exo 34:12 Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you.
(Gen 15:18 NIV) On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates--
(Gen 17:2 NIV) I will confirm my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers."
(Gen 17:4 NIV) "As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.
(Gen 17:7 NIV) I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
(Gen 17:9 NIV) Then God said to Abraham, "As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.
(Gen 17:10 NIV) This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
(Gen 17:11 NIV) You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.
(Gen 17:13 NIV) Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant.
(Gen 17:14 NIV) Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant."
(Gen 17:19 NIV) Then God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
(Gen 17:21 NIV) But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year."
(Gen 31:44 NIV) Come now, let's make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us."
(Exo 2:24 NIV) God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.
(Exo 6:4 NIV) I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan , where they lived as aliens.
(Exo 6:5 NIV) Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.
(Exo 19:5 NIV) Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine,
(Exo 23:32 NIV) Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods.
(Exo 24:7 NIV) Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, "We will do everything the LORD has said; we will obey."
(Exo 24:8 NIV) Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words."
(Exo 31:16 NIV) The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations to come as a lasting covenant.
(Exo 34:10 NIV) Then the LORD said: "I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the LORD, will do for you.
(Exo 34:27 NIV) Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel ."
(Exo 34:28 NIV) Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant--the Ten Commandments.
(Lev 2:13 NIV) Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings.
(Lev 24:8 NIV) This bread is to be set out before the LORD regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant.
(Lev 26:9 NIV) "'I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you.
(Lev 26:15 NIV) and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,
(Lev 26:25 NIV) And I will bring the sword upon you to avenge the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be given into enemy hands.
(Lev 26:42 NIV) I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
(Lev 26:44 NIV) Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the LORD their God.
(Lev 26:45 NIV) But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the LORD.'"
(Num 10:33 NIV) So they set out from the mountain of the LORD and traveled for three days. The ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them during those three days to find them a place to rest.
(Num 14:44 NIV) Nevertheless, in their presumption they went up toward the high hill country, though neither Moses nor the ark of the Lord's covenant moved from the camp.
(Num 18:19 NIV) Whatever is set aside from the holy offerings the Israelites present to the LORD I give to you and your sons and daughters as your regular share. It is an everlasting covenant of salt before the LORD for both you and your offspring."
(Num 25:12 NIV) Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him.
(Num 25:13 NIV) He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites."
(Deu 4:13 NIV) He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets.
(Deu 4:23 NIV) Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the LORD your God has forbidden.
(Deu 4:31 NIV) For the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your forefathers, which he confirmed to them by oath.
(Deu 5:2 NIV) The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
(Deu 5:3 NIV) It was not with our fathers that the LORD made this covenant, but with us, with all of us who are alive here today.
(Deu 7:9 NIV) Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands.
(Deu 7:12 NIV) If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the LORD your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your forefathers.
(Deu 8:18 NIV) But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today.
(Deu 9:9 NIV) When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.
(Deu 9:11 NIV) At the end of the forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.
(Deu 9:15 NIV) So I turned and went down from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.
(Deu 10:8 NIV) At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister and to pronounce blessings in his name, as they still do today.
(Deu 17:2 NIV) If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns the LORD gives you is found doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God in violation of his covenant,
(Deu 29:1 NIV) These are the terms of the covenant the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in Moab , in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.
(Deu 29:9 NIV) Carefully follow the terms of this covenant, so that you may prosper in everything you do.
(Deu 29:12 NIV) You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God, a covenant the LORD is making with you this day and sealing with an oath,
(Deu 29:14 NIV) I am making this covenant, with its oath, not only with you
(Deu 29:21 NIV) The LORD will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.
(Deu 29:25 NIV) And the answer will be: "It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt .
(Deu 31:9 NIV) So Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel .
(Deu 31:16 NIV) And the LORD said to Moses: "You are going to rest with your fathers, and these people will soon prostitute themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake me and break the covenant I made with them.
(Deu 31:20 NIV) When I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, the land I promised on oath to their forefathers, and when they eat their fill and thrive, they will turn to other gods and worship them, rejecting me and breaking my covenant.
(Deu 31:25 NIV) he gave this command to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD:
(Deu 31:26 NIV) "Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God. There it will remain as a witness against you.
(Deu 33:9 NIV) He said of his father and mother, 'I have no regard for them.' He did not recognize his brothers or acknowledge his own children, but he watched over your word and guarded your covenant.
(Josh 3:3 NIV) giving orders to the people: "When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests, who are Levites, carrying it, you are to move out from your positions and follow it.
(Josh 3:6 NIV) Joshua said to the priests, "Take up the ark of the covenant and pass on ahead of the people." So they took it up and went ahead of them.
(Josh 3:8 NIV) Tell the priests who carry the ark of the covenant: 'When you reach the edge of the Jordan 's waters, go and stand in the river.'"
(Josh 3:11 NIV) See, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth will go into the Jordan ahead of you.
(Josh 3:14 NIV) So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan , the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them.
(Josh 3:17 NIV) The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan , while all Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground.
(Josh 4:7 NIV) tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan , the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever."
(Josh 4:9 NIV) Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been in the middle of the Jordan at the spot where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant had stood. And they are there to this day.
(Josh 4:18 NIV) And the priests came up out of the river carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD. No sooner had they set their feet on the dry ground than the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and ran at flood stage as before.
(Josh 6:6 NIV) So Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant of the LORD and have seven priests carry trumpets in front of it."
(Josh 6:8 NIV) When Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets before the LORD went forward, blowing their trumpets, and the ark of the Lord's covenant followed them.
(Josh 7:11 NIV) Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenant, which I commanded them to keep. They have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen, they have lied, they have put them with their own possessions.
(Josh 7:15 NIV) He who is caught with the devoted things shall be destroyed by fire, along with all that belongs to him. He has violated the covenant of the LORD and has done a disgraceful thing in Israel !'"
(Josh 8:33 NIV) All Israel , aliens and citizens alike, with their elders, officials and judges, were standing on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the LORD, facing those who carried it--the priests, who were Levites. Half of the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal , as Moses the servant of the LORD had formerly commanded when he gave instructions to bless the people of Israel .
(Josh 23:16 NIV) If you violate the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the Lord's anger will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land he has given you."
(Josh 24:25 NIV) On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he drew up for them decrees and laws.
(Judg 2:1 NIV) The angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, "I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I swore to give to your forefathers. I said, 'I will never break my covenant with you,
(Judg 2:2 NIV) and you shall not make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall break down their altars.' Yet you have disobeyed me. Why have you done this?
(Judg 2:20 NIV) Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and said, "Because this nation has violated the covenant that I laid down for their forefathers and has not listened to me,
(Judg 20:27 NIV) And the Israelites inquired of the LORD. (In those days the ark of the covenant of God was there,
(1 Sam 4:3 NIV) When the soldiers returned to camp, the elders of Israel asked, "Why did the LORD bring defeat upon us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the Lord's covenant from Shiloh , so that it may go with us and save us from the hand of our enemies."
(1 Sam 4:4 NIV) So the people sent men to Shiloh , and they brought back the ark of the covenant of the LORD Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim. And Eli's two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
(1 Sam 4:5 NIV) When the ark of the Lord's covenant came into the camp, all Israel raised such a great shout that the ground shook.
(1 Sam 18:3 NIV) And Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.
(1 Sam 20:8 NIV) As for you, show kindness to your servant, for you have brought him into a covenant with you before the LORD. If I am guilty, then kill me yourself! Why hand me over to your father?"
(1 Sam 20:16 NIV) So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, "May the LORD call David's enemies to account."
(1 Sam 22:8 NIV) Is that why you have all conspired against me? No one tells me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is concerned about me or tells me that my son has incited my servant to lie in wait for me, as he does today."
(1 Sam 23:18 NIV) The two of them made a covenant before the LORD. Then Jonathan went home, but David remained at Horesh.
(2 Sam 15:24 NIV) Zadok was there, too, and all the Levites who were with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. They set down the ark of God, and Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people had finished leaving the city.
(2 Sam 23:5 NIV) "Is not my house right with God? Has he not made with me an everlasting covenant, arranged and secured in every part? Will he not bring to fruition my salvation and grant me my every desire?
(1 Ki 3:15 NIV) Then Solomon awoke--and he realized it had been a dream. He returned to Jerusalem , stood before the ark of the Lord's covenant and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then he gave a feast for all his court.
(1 Ki 6:19 NIV) He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
(1 Ki 8:1 NIV) Then King Solomon summoned into his presence at Jerusalem the elders of Israel , all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the Lord's covenant from Zion , the City of David .
(1 Ki 8:6 NIV) The priests then brought the ark of the Lord's covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place , and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim.
(1 Ki 8:9 NIV) There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt .
(1 Ki 8:21 NIV) I have provided a place there for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD that he made with our fathers when he brought them out of Egypt ."
(1 Ki 8:23 NIV) and said: "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth below--you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way.
(1 Ki 11:11 NIV) So the LORD said to Solomon, "Since this is your attitude and you have not kept my covenant and my decrees, which I commanded you, I will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your subordinates.
(1 Ki 19:10 NIV) He replied, "I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too."
(1 Ki 19:14 NIV) He replied, "I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too."
(2 Ki 11:4 NIV) In the seventh year Jehoiada sent for the commanders of units of a hundred, the Carites and the guards and had them brought to him at the temple of the LORD. He made a covenant with them and put them under oath at the temple of the LORD. Then he showed them the king's son.
(2 Ki 11:12 NIV) Jehoiada brought out the king's son and put the crown on him; he presented him with a copy of the covenant and proclaimed him king. They anointed him, and the people clapped their hands and shouted, "Long live the king!"
(2 Ki 11:17 NIV) Jehoiada then made a covenant between the LORD and the king and people that they would be the Lord's people. He also made a covenant between the king and the people.
(2 Ki 13:23 NIV) But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion and showed concern for them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. To this day he has been unwilling to destroy them or banish them from his presence.
(2 Ki 17:15 NIV) They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their fathers and the warnings he had given them. They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the LORD had ordered them, "Do not do as they do," and they did the things the LORD had forbidden them to do.
(2 Ki 17:35 NIV) When the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites, he commanded them: "Do not worship any other gods or bow down to them, serve them or sacrifice to them.
(2 Ki 17:38 NIV) Do not forget the covenant I have made with you, and do not worship other gods.
(2 Ki 18:12 NIV) This happened because they had not obeyed the LORD their God, but had violated his covenant--all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded. They neither listened to the commands nor carried them out.
(2 Ki 23:2 NIV) He went up to the temple of the LORD with the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem , the priests and the prophets--all the people from the least to the greatest. He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant, which had been found in the temple of the LORD.
(2 Ki 23:3 NIV) The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the LORD--to follow the LORD and keep his commands, regulations and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, thus confirming the words of the covenant written in this book. Then all the people pledged themselves to the covenant.
(2 Ki 23:21 NIV) The king gave this order to all the people: "Celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant."
(1 Chr 15:25 NIV) So David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of units of a thousand went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-Edom, with rejoicing.
(1 Chr 15:26 NIV) Because God had helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD, seven bulls and seven rams were sacrificed.
(1 Chr 15:28 NIV) So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouts, with the sounding of rams' horns and trumpets, and of cymbals, and the playing of lyres and harps.
(1 Chr 15:29 NIV) As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David , Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David dancing and celebrating, she despised him in her heart.
(1 Chr 16:6 NIV) and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests were to blow the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.
(1 Chr 16:15 NIV) He remembers his covenant forever, the word he commanded, for a thousand generations,
(1 Chr 16:16 NIV) the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac.
(1 Chr 16:17 NIV) He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
(1 Chr 16:37 NIV) David left Asaph and his associates before the ark of the covenant of the LORD to minister there regularly, according to each day's requirements.
(1 Chr 17:1 NIV) After David was settled in his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, "Here I am, living in a palace of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent."
(1 Chr 22:19 NIV) Now devote your heart and soul to seeking the LORD your God. Begin to build the sanctuary of the LORD God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the sacred articles belonging to God into the temple that will be built for the Name of the LORD."
(1 Chr 28:2 NIV) King David rose to his feet and said: "Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I had it in my heart to build a house as a place of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, for the footstool of our God, and I made plans to build it.
(1 Chr 28:18 NIV) and the weight of the refined gold for the altar of incense. He also gave him the plan for the chariot, that is, the cherubim of gold that spread their wings and shelter the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
(2 Chr 5:2 NIV) Then Solomon summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel , all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the Lord's covenant from Zion , the City of David .
(2 Chr 5:7 NIV) The priests then brought the ark of the Lord's covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place , and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim.
(2 Chr 5:10 NIV) There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt .
(2 Chr 6:11 NIV) There I have placed the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD that he made with the people of Israel ."
(2 Chr 6:14 NIV) He said: "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth--you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way.
(2 Chr 13:5 NIV) Don't you know that the LORD, the God of Israel, has given the kingship of Israel to David and his descendants forever by a covenant of salt?
(2 Chr 15:12 NIV) They entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul.
(2 Chr 21:7 NIV) Nevertheless, because of the covenant the LORD had made with David, the LORD was not willing to destroy the house of David. He had promised to maintain a lamp for him and his descendants forever.
(2 Chr 23:1 NIV) In the seventh year Jehoiada showed his strength. He made a covenant with the commanders of units of a hundred: Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zicri.
(2 Chr 23:3 NIV) the whole assembly made a covenant with the king at the temple of God . Jehoiada said to them, "The king's son shall reign, as the LORD promised concerning the descendants of David.
(2 Chr 23:11 NIV) Jehoiada and his sons brought out the king's son and put the crown on him; they presented him with a copy of the covenant and proclaimed him king. They anointed him and shouted, "Long live the king!"
(2 Chr 23:16 NIV) Jehoiada then made a covenant that he and the people and the king would be the Lord's people.
(2 Chr 29:10 NIV) Now I intend to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger will turn away from us.
(2 Chr 34:30 NIV) He went up to the temple of the LORD with the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem , the priests and the Levites--all the people from the least to the greatest. He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant, which had been found in the temple of the LORD.
(2 Chr 34:31 NIV) The king stood by his pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the LORD--to follow the LORD and keep his commands, regulations and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, and to obey the words of the covenant written in this book.
(2 Chr 34:32 NIV) Then he had everyone in Jerusalem and Benjamin pledge themselves to it; the people of Jerusalem did this in accordance with the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
(Ezra 10:3 NIV) Now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all these women and their children, in accordance with the counsel of my lord and of those who fear the commands of our God. Let it be done according to the Law.
(Neh 1:5 NIV) Then I said: "O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and obey his commands,
(Neh 9:8 NIV) You found his heart faithful to you, and you made a covenant with him to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites and Girgashites. You have kept your promise because you are righteous.
(Neh 9:32 NIV) "Now therefore, O our God, the great, mighty and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love, do not let all this hardship seem trifling in your eyes--the hardship that has come upon us, upon our kings and leaders, upon our priests and prophets, upon our fathers and all your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.
(Neh 13:29 NIV) Remember them, O my God, because they defiled the priestly office and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.
(Job 5:23 NIV) For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.
(Job 31:1 NIV) "I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl.
(Psa 25:10 NIV) All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful for those who keep the demands of his covenant.
(Psa 25:14 NIV) The LORD confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them.
(Psa 44:17 NIV) All this happened to us, though we had not forgotten you or been false to your covenant.
(Psa 50:5 NIV) "Gather to me my consecrated ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice."
(Psa 50:16 NIV) But to the wicked, God says: "What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips?
(Psa 55:20 NIV) My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant.
(Psa 60:1 NIV) For the director of music. To the tune of "The Lily of the Covenant." A miktam of David. For teaching. When he fought Aram Naharaim and Aram Zobah, and when Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt . You have rejected us, O God, and burst forth upon us; you have been angry--now restore us!
(Psa 74:20 NIV) Have regard for your covenant, because haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
(Psa 78:10 NIV) they did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his law.
(Psa 78:37 NIV) their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.
(Psa 80:1 NIV) For the director of music. To the tune of "The Lilies of the Covenant." Of Asaph. A psalm. Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock; you who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth
(Psa 89:3 NIV) You said, "I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant,
(Psa 89:28 NIV) I will maintain my love to him forever, and my covenant with him will never fail.
(Psa 89:34 NIV) I will not violate my covenant or alter what my lips have uttered.
(Psa 89:39 NIV) You have renounced the covenant with your servant and have defiled his crown in the dust.
(Psa 103:18 NIV) with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.
(Psa 105:8 NIV) He remembers his covenant forever, the word he commanded, for a thousand generations,
(Psa 105:9 NIV) the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac.
(Psa 105:10 NIV) He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
(Psa 106:45 NIV) for their sake he remembered his covenant and out of his great love he relented.
(Psa 111:5 NIV) He provides food for those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever.
(Psa 111:9 NIV) He provided redemption for his people; he ordained his covenant forever-- holy and awesome is his name.
(Psa 132:12 NIV) if your sons keep my covenant and the statutes I teach them, then their sons will sit on your throne for ever and ever."
(Prov 2:17 NIV) who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.
(Isa 24:5 NIV) The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant.
(Isa 28:15 NIV) You boast, "We have entered into a covenant with death, with the grave we have made an agreement. When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by, it cannot touch us, for we have made a lie our refuge and falsehood our hiding place."
(Isa 28:18 NIV) Your covenant with death will be annulled; your agreement with the grave will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by, you will be beaten down by it.
(Isa 42:6 NIV) "I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles,
(Isa 49:8 NIV) This is what the LORD says: "In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances,
(Isa 54:10 NIV) Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
(Isa 55:3 NIV) Give ear and come to me; hear me, that your soul may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.
(Isa 56:4 NIV) For this is what the LORD says: "To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose what pleases me and hold fast to my covenant--
(Isa 56:6 NIV) And foreigners who bind themselves to the LORD to serve him, to love the name of the LORD, and to worship him, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant--
(Isa 59:21 NIV) "As for me, this is my covenant with them," says the LORD. "My Spirit, who is on you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of their descendants from this time on and forever," says the LORD.
(Isa 61:8 NIV) "For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity. In my faithfulness I will reward them and make an everlasting covenant with them.
(Jer 3:16 NIV) In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land," declares the LORD, "men will no longer say, 'The ark of the covenant of the LORD.' It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made.
(Jer 11:2 NIV) "Listen to the terms of this covenant and tell them to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem .
(Jer 11:3 NIV) Tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Cursed is the man who does not obey the terms of this covenant--
(Jer 11:6 NIV) The LORD said to me, "Proclaim all these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem : 'Listen to the terms of this covenant and follow them.
(Jer 11:8 NIV) But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubbornness of their evil hearts. So I brought on them all the curses of the covenant I had commanded them to follow but that they did not keep.'"
(Jer 11:10 NIV) They have returned to the sins of their forefathers, who refused to listen to my words. They have followed other gods to serve them. Both the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their forefathers.
(Jer 14:21 NIV) For the sake of your name do not despise us; do not dishonor your glorious throne. Remember your covenant with us and do not break it.
(Jer 22:9 NIV) And the answer will be: 'Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.'"
(Jer 31:31 NIV) "The time is coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah .
(Jer 31:32 NIV) It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt , because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them, " declares the LORD.
(Jer 31:33 NIV) "This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time," declares the LORD. "I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
(Jer 32:40 NIV) I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me.
(Jer 33:20 NIV) "This is what the LORD says: 'If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night no longer come at their appointed time,
(Jer 33:21 NIV) then my covenant with David my servant--and my covenant with the Levites who are priests ministering before me--can be broken and David will no longer have a descendant to reign on his throne.
(Jer 33:25 NIV) This is what the LORD says: 'If I have not established my covenant with day and night and the fixed laws of heaven and earth,
(Jer 34:8 NIV) The word came to Jeremiah from the LORD after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim freedom for the slaves.
(Jer 34:10 NIV) So all the officials and people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their male and female slaves and no longer hold them in bondage. They agreed, and set them free.
(Jer 34:13 NIV) "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your forefathers when I brought them out of Egypt , out of the land of slavery. I said,
(Jer 34:15 NIV) Recently you repented and did what is right in my sight: Each of you proclaimed freedom to his countrymen. You even made a covenant before me in the house that bears my Name.
(Jer 34:18 NIV) The men who have violated my covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two and then walked between its pieces.
(Jer 50:5 NIV) They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.
(Ezek 16:8 NIV) "'Later I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love, I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness. I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Sovereign LORD, and you became mine.
(Ezek 16:59 NIV) "'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will deal with you as you deserve, because you have despised my oath by breaking the covenant.
(Ezek 16:60 NIV) Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
(Ezek 16:61 NIV) Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both those who are older than you and those who are younger. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on the basis of my covenant with you.
(Ezek 16:62 NIV) So I will establish my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
(Ezek 17:18 NIV) He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Because he had given his hand in pledge and yet did all these things, he shall not escape.
(Ezek 17:19 NIV) "'Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: As surely as I live, I will bring down on his head my oath that he despised and my covenant that he broke.
(Ezek 20:37 NIV) I will take note of you as you pass under my rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.
(Ezek 30:5 NIV) Cush and Put , Lydia and all Arabia , Libya and the people of the covenant land will fall by the sword along with Egypt .
(Ezek 34:25 NIV) "'I will make a covenant of peace with them and rid the land of wild beasts so that they may live in the desert and sleep in the forests in safety.
(Ezek 37:26 NIV) I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and increase their numbers, and I will put my sanctuary among them forever.
(Ezek 44:7 NIV) In addition to all your other detestable practices, you brought foreigners uncircumcised in heart and flesh into my sanctuary, desecrating my temple while you offered me food, fat and blood, and you broke my covenant.
(Dan 9:4 NIV) I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed: "O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with all who love him and obey his commands,
(Dan 9:27 NIV) He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' In the middle of the 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him."
(Dan 11:22 NIV) Then an overwhelming army will be swept away before him; both it and a prince of the covenant will be destroyed.
(Dan 11:28 NIV) The king of the North will return to his own country with great wealth, but his heart will be set against the holy covenant. He will take action against it and then return to his own country.
(Dan 11:30 NIV) Ships of the western coastlands will oppose him, and he will lose heart. Then he will turn back and vent his fury against the holy covenant. He will return and show favor to those who forsake the holy covenant.
(Dan 11:32 NIV) With flattery he will corrupt those who have violated the covenant, but the people who know their God will firmly resist him.
(Hosea 2:18 NIV) In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that move along the ground. Bow and sword and battle I will abolish from the land, so that all may lie down in safety.
(Hosea 6:7 NIV) Like Adam, they have broken the covenant-- they were unfaithful to me there.
(Hosea 8:1 NIV) "Put the trumpet to your lips! An eagle is over the house of the LORD because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.
(Zec 9:11 NIV) As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit.
(Zec 11:10 NIV) Then I took my staff called Favor and broke it, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.
(Mal 2:4 NIV) And you will know that I have sent you this admonition so that my covenant with Levi may continue," says the LORD Almighty.
(Mal 2:5 NIV) "My covenant was with him, a covenant of life and peace, and I gave them to him; this called for reverence and he revered me and stood in awe of my name.
(Mal 2:8 NIV) But you have turned from the way and by your teaching have caused many to stumble; you have violated the covenant with Levi," says the LORD Almighty.
(Mal 2:10 NIV) Have we not all one Father ? Did not one God create us? Why do we profane the covenant of our fathers by breaking faith with one another?
(Mal 2:14 NIV) You ask, "Why?" It is because the LORD is acting as the witness between you and the wife of your youth, because you have broken faith with her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.
(Mal 3:1 NIV) "See, I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come," says the LORD Almighty.
(Mat 26:28 NIV) This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
(Mark 14:24 NIV) "This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many," he said to them.
(Luke 1:72 NIV) to show mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant,
(Luke 22:20 NIV) In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
(Acts 3:25 NIV) And you are heirs of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers. He said to Abraham, 'Through your offspring all peoples on earth will be blessed.'
(Acts 7:8 NIV) Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. And Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after his birth. Later Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
(Rom 11:27 NIV) And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins."
(1 Cor 11:25 NIV) In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me."
(2 Cor 3:6 NIV) He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant--not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
(2 Cor 3:14 NIV) But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away.
(Gal 3:15 NIV) Brothers, let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case.
(Gal 3:17 NIV) What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise.
(Gal 4:24 NIV) These things may be taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar.
(Heb 7:22 NIV) Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
(Heb 8:6 NIV) But the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, and it is founded on better promises.
(Heb 8:7 NIV) For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another.
(Heb 8:8 NIV) But God found fault with the people and said : "The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah .
(Heb 8:9 NIV) It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt , because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord.
(Heb 8:10 NIV) This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
(Heb 8:13 NIV) By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.
(Heb 9:1 NIV) Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.
(Heb 9:4 NIV) which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron's staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
(Heb 9:15 NIV) For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance--now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.
(Heb 9:18 NIV) This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.
(Heb 9:20 NIV) He said, "This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep."
(Heb 10:16 NIV) "This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds."
(Heb 10:29 NIV) How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
(Heb 12:24 NIV) to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
(Heb 13:20 NIV) May the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
(Rev 11:19 NIV) Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a great hailstorm.
Yours in the kingdom of God's service,
Rev. Dr. T. Marcus Devasahayam.