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 Jehovah, they set the priests in their robes with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Jehovah, according to David king of Israel.
Also we put commands upon ourselves, 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 cloudy pillar; they kept His testimonies and the ordinance that He gave them.
So says Jehovah, who gives the sun for a light by day and the laws of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who divides the sea when its waves roar; Jehovah of Hosts is His name;
From the days of your fathers, you have turned aside from My statutes, and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you, says Jehovah of Hosts. But you say. In what way shall we return?
So that the one resisting the authority resists the ordinance of God; and the ones who resist will receive judgment to themselves.
But I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and you keep the doctrines as I delivered them to you.
blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.
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:
Then truly the first tabernacle had also ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.
which stood only in meats and drinks, and different kinds of washings and fleshly ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.