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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I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father.
He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.
You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don't turn again to cover the earth.
Preserve my life according to your loving kindness, so I will obey the statutes of your mouth. LAMED Yahweh, your word is settled in heaven forever. read more. Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains. Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.
He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.
when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;
Don't you fear me?' says Yahweh 'Won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.'
He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:
But if you don't make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me its interpretation.
The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent 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 interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which is come on my lord the king:
before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh's anger comes on you.
Now it happened in those days, that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.
As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.
whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!"
having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;
If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,