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 those building will lay the foundation of the temple of Jehovah, and they will cause the priests to stand, being clothed, with trumpets, and the Levites sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise Jehovah according to the hands of David king of Israel.
And we set up commands for us to give for us the third of the shekel in the year for the service of the house of our God.
In a pillar of cloud he will speak to them: they watched his testimonies, and the law he gave them.
Thus said Jehovah, giving the sun for light the day, the laws of the moon and the stars for a light the night., causing the sea to tremble, and its waves shall roar; Jehovah of armies his name.
For from the days of your fathers ye departed from my laws, and ye watched not. Turn back to me and I will turn back to you, said Jehovah of armies. And ye said, In what shall we turn back?
So he opposing the power, has resisted the arrangement of God: and they having resisted shall receive to themselves judgment.
And I approve you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and as I have delivered to you, do ye hold the traditions.
Having wiped out the handwriting against us in enactments, which was opposed to us, and he has taken it from the midst, having nailed it to his cross
If therefore ye died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, do ye dogmatize,
And truly therefore the first had precepts of divine service for him, and a worldly holy place.
Only in food and drinks, and different immersions, and precepts of the flesh, being placed till the time of amendment.