Reference: Decree
Hastings
What theologians speak of as the 'decrees of God,' and describe as one, immutable, eternal, all-embracing, free, etc., do not receive this designation in Scripture. The equivalents are to be sought for under such headings as Election, Predestination, Providence, Reprobate. In the English Version the term is frequently used in Esther, Ezra, Daniel, with different Heb. and Aramaic words, for royal decrees (in Da 6 RV 'interdict'; in Da 2:9 RV 'law,' elsewhere 'decree'). In the NT also the Gr. word dogmata is employed of decrees of C
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When He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning to thunder;
I will declare the decree of Jehovah. He has said to Me, You are My Son; today I have begotten You.
He laid the earth on its foundations; it shall not be shaken forever.
You have set a bound that they may not pass over, so that they do not turn again to cover the earth.
According to Your loving-kindness give me life; so shall I keep the testimony of Your mouth. LAMED: Forever, O Jehovah, Your Word is settled in the heavens. read more. Your faithfulness is to all generations; You have founded the earth, and it remains. They stand to this day according to Your ordinances; for all are Your servants.
He has also settled them forever and ever; He has made a decree which shall not pass away.
when He gave to the sea its limit that the waters should not pass His command; when He appointed the foundations of the earth;
Do you not fear Me? says Jehovah. Will you not tremble at My presence, I who have placed the sand for the boundary of the sea by a never-ending decree, so that it cannot pass it? And though they toss themselves, yet they cannot prevail; though its waves roar, yet they cannot pass over it?
He has made the earth by His power; He has established the world by His wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by His judgment.
But if you will not make the dream known to me, there is only one judgment for you. For you have prepared lying and deceiving words to speak before me, until the time has changed. Therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can reveal to me its meaning.
This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones, so that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.
this is the meaning, O king, and this the decree of the Most High, which has come on my lord the king.
before the birth of the decree, the day shall pass like the chaff; yet not before the hot anger of Jehovah comes on you, yet not before the day of Jehovah's anger comes on you.
And it happened in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
And as they passed through the cities, they delivered to them the commandments to keep, the ones that were ordained by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem.
whom Jason has received. And these all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.
having abolished in His flesh the enmity (the Law of commandments contained in ordinances) so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, making peace between them;
If then you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to its ordinances: