Nehemiah 10:29

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;

Clave

Entered

Acts 23:12

To walk

Jeremiah 26:4

Given

To observe

Titus 2:11

The lord

Psalm 8:1

General references

Exodus 19:8

Bible References

Clave

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob.

Who, when he came and saw the grace of God, was glad; and he made clear to them the need of keeping near the Lord with all the strength of their hearts:

But some men gave him their support: among whom was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.

Entered

Then they said, We will give them back, and take nothing for them; we will do as you say. Then I sent for the priests and made them take an oath that they would keep this agreement.

And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.

With the purpose of taking part in the agreement of the Lord your God, and his oath which he makes with you today:

And that anyone, small or great, man or woman, who was not true to the Lord, the God of Israel, would be put to death.

I have made an oath and kept it, to be guided by your upright decisions.

And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no food or drink till they had put Paul to death.

To walk

But Jehu did not take care to keep the law of the Lord with all his heart: he did not keep himself from the sin which Jeroboam did and made Israel do.

And the king took his place by the pillar, and made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in the book; and all the people gave their word to keep the agreement.

So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place before me on the seat of the kingdom of Israel; if only your children give attention to their ways, walking in my law, as you have done before me.

Then the king, taking his place by the pillar, made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and to keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and with all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in this book.

And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: If you do not give ear to me and go in the way of my law which I have put before you,

Given

Moses gave us a law, a heritage for the people of Jacob.

Keep in mind the law of Moses, my servant, which I gave him in Horeb for all Israel, even the rules and the decisions.

For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ.

Did not Moses give you the law? Even so, not one of you keeps the law. Why have you a desire to put me to death?

To observe

And Moses sent for all Israel, and said to them, Give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I give you today, and give attention to them so that you may keep and do them.

So that they might keep his orders, and be true to his laws. Give praise to the Lord.

And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.

You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.

For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men,

The lord

O Lord, our Lord, whose glory is higher than the heavens, how noble is your name in all the earth!

General references

And all the people, answering together, said, Whatever the Lord has said we will do. And Moses took back to the Lord the words of the people.