Jeremiah 11:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:

I commanded

Iron

Deuteronomy 4:20

1 Kings 8:51

Isaiah 48:10

Obey

Ye be

Bible References

I commanded

It will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I delivered them from Egypt. For they violated that covenant, even though I was like a faithful husband to them," says the Lord.

Moses came and told the people all the Lord's words and all the decisions. All the people answered together, "We are willing to do all the words that the Lord has said,"

The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God -- the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officials, every Israelite man,

On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

But showing its fault, God says to them, "Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

Iron

You, however, the Lord has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.

After all, they are your people and your special possession whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace.

Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have purified you in the furnace of misery.

Obey

Consider this: When I spoke to your ancestors after I brought them out of Egypt, I did not merely give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices.

But correct the way you have been living and do what is right. Obey the Lord your God. If you do, the Lord will forgo destroying you as he threatened he would.

and showing covenant faithfulness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Take heed because of him, and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgressions, for my name is in him.

"'If you walk in my statutes and are sure to obey my commandments,

the blessing if you take to heart the commandments of the Lord your God that I am giving you today,

"If you indeed obey the Lord your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving you today, the Lord your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.

Then Samuel said, "Does the Lord take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as he does in obedience? Certainly, obedience is better than sacrifice; paying attention is better than the fat of rams.

Then those who are far away will come and build the temple of the Lord so that you may know that the Lord who rules over all has sent me to you. This will all come to pass if you completely obey the voice of the Lord your God."'"

teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age."

And by being perfected in this way, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,

Ye be

I will give them the desire to acknowledge that I am the Lord. I will be their God and they will be my people. For they will wholeheartedly return to me.'

Then you will again be my people and I will be your God.

"Indeed, a time is coming," says the Lord, "when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah.

Therefore I, the Lord, say: 'I will indeed hand this city over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and the Babylonian army. They will capture it.

I will give the whole land of Canaan -- the land where you are now residing -- to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God."

I will walk among you, and I will be your God and you will be my people.

so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

so that the house of Israel will no longer go astray from me, nor continue to defile themselves by all their sins. They will be my people and I will be their God, declares the sovereign Lord.'"

Then you will live in the land I gave to your fathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God.

They will not defile themselves with their idols, their detestable things, and all their rebellious deeds. I will save them from all their unfaithfulness by which they sinned. I will purify them; they will become my people and I will become their God.

And I will bring them to settle within Jerusalem. They will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and righteousness.'

Then I will bring the remaining third into the fire; I will refine them like silver is refined and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name and I will answer; I will say, 'These are my people,' and they will say, 'The Lord is my God.'"

And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said, "I will live in them and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people."

"For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people.