Reference: Ordinance
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This term in the O.T. generally signifies that which God 'ordered' for His people to observe. "They kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them." Ps 99:7. "Ye are gone away from mine ordinances." Mal 3:7. It is also applied to things in creation: God giveth "the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night." Jer 31:35. David made an ordinance. Ezr 3:10: cf. Ne 10:32. In the N.T. it refers especially to the enactments of the law: "ordinances of divine service," Heb 9:1,10; "blotting out the handwriting of ordinances." Col 2:14. It is also applied to human laws, Ro 13:2; 1Pe 2:13; and to the rules of the moralists. Col 2:20. The directions that Paul had given to the Corinthians are in the A.V. called 'ordinances,' 1Co 11:2; margin, 'traditions.'
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And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise LORD, after the order of David king of Israel.
Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God,
He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, and the statute that he gave them.
Thus says LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar. LORD of hosts is his name.
From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says LORD of hosts. But ye say, How shall we return?
So that he who resists the office of authority has opposed the ordinance of God, and those who have opposed will receive condemnation to themselves.
Now I praise you, brothers, that ye remember me in all things and keep the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.
having erased the handwriting against us in the regulations that were hostile to us, and he has taken it up from the midst, having nailed it to the cross.
If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do ye submit to rules, as though living in the world?
Now indeed therefore the first had ordinances of divine service and the earthly sanctuary.
only in foods and drinks and various washings: carnal ordinances imposed until a time of reformation.