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Thematic Bible



During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God. Verse ConceptsBeggarsMonotonyPeace, Human Search ForPrayer, As Asking GodSuffering, HardshipSuffering, Of The InnocentCaptivity, Of IsraelCrying To GodMoving UpwardsCries Of Distress To GodMaking SlavesDeath Of Office HoldersParents Prayer For Their Childrenprocess

So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. Verse ConceptsAbuse Of Authority, Examples OfOppression, Nature OfStoringSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, HardshipSuffering, Nature OfTaskmastersStores Of FoodForced Labour

In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking a Hebrew man, one of his own people. Verse ConceptsVisitingGrowing UpForced Labourempathymanhood

The king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!" Verse ConceptsDoing One's Workdistractions

how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly. Verse ConceptsPeople Actually Doing EvilStaying A Long Time

He caused them to hate his people, and to mistreat his servants. Verse ConceptsHating Peoples

But God spoke as follows: 'Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years. Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions Of100 Years And MoreThose OppressedReckoned As ForeignersGroups Of SlavesStrangers in israelslaveryoppression


They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend them, Verse ConceptsGoadsThoughtWritingThoughts Of The WickedWriting On PeopleJustified By WorksKnowing Right And WrongTaking The Law To HeartThings As WitnessesHeart, HumanEthicsMoralityconscienceaccusations

"For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people. Verse ConceptsMorality, And RedemptionTabletsWritingReceptive HeartsWriting On PeopleI Will Be Their GodTaking The Law To HeartJournalizing

I will make a lasting covenant with them that I will never stop doing good to them. I will fill their hearts and minds with respect for me so that they will never again turn away from me. Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfGod, The EternalRenewed HeartThe Eternal CovenantLater Covenants With GodEverlastingGod's Covenant Is EverlastingGod Turning Bad Things Into Goodcovenant



"But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel after I plant them back in the land," says the Lord. "I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts and minds. I will be their God and they will be my people. Verse ConceptsDiscernment, Source OfHardness Of HeartIntelligenceMorality, And RedemptionSpirit, Fallen And RedeemedTabletsWritingWorship With The HeartReceptive HeartsWriting On PeopleI Will Be Their GodTaking The Law To Heart


"This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds," Verse ConceptsCovenant, the newIntelligenceTabletsWritingReceptive HeartsWriting On PeopleTaking The Law To Heart

Hear this, you peoples of the earth: 'Take note! I am about to bring disaster on these people. It will come as punishment for their scheming. For they have paid no attention to what I have said, and they have rejected my law. Verse ConceptsRejecting ThingsRejection Of GodRejection Of God, Results OfRejection Of God's CallRefusing To HearGod Will Bring Harm

Therefore, as flaming fire devours straw, and dry grass disintegrates in the flames, so their root will rot, and their flower will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the law of the Lord who commands armies, they have spurned the commands of the Holy One of Israel. Verse ConceptsRejecting God's WordDecayGrassRejection Of GodStrawRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRootsPeople RottingBurning Plants

For these are rebellious people -- they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the Lord's law. Verse ConceptsChildren, attitudes towardsSin, Nature OfBible, Names OfRefusing To HearLying And Deceitrebellion

But they mocked God's messengers, despised his warnings, and ridiculed his prophets. Finally the Lord got very angry at his people and there was no one who could prevent his judgment. Verse ConceptsAbuse, To God's PeopleContemptMockeryRejection Of God, Results OfRejection Of GodResentment, Against GodSin, And God's CharacterRejection Of Spiritual InstructionInfidelity To GodScoffersFunServant Leadershipprophetsacting

You have destroyed my people by failing to acknowledge me! Because you refuse to acknowledge me, I will reject you as my priests. Because you reject the law of your God, I will reject your descendants. Verse ConceptsBad CounselDangers Of IgnorancedecisionsPoverty, SpiritualRejection Of GodRejection Of God, Results OfRetributionAdvice, Rejecting God's AdviceWisdom, Source Of HumanValuing KnowledgeGod ForgettingForsaking God's ThingsDeposingIgnorance of GodRejectionignorance

The Lord answered, "This has happened because these people have rejected my laws which I gave them. They have not obeyed me or followed those laws. Verse ConceptsDisobedience, To GodForsaking God's ThingsBreaking God's Law

They did not keep their covenant with God, and they refused to obey his law. Verse ConceptsContemptDisobedience, To GodProvokingSelf WillBreaking The CovenantBreaking God's Law

This is what the Lord says: "Because Judah has committed three covenant transgressions -- make that four! -- I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They rejected the Lord's law; they did not obey his commands. Their false gods, to which their fathers were loyal, led them astray. Verse ConceptsAncestorsBad ParentsFalse GodsGuidance, Need For God'sRejecting ThingsRejection Of GodAbominations, Judgments OfThree Or FourBreaking God's Law

He also said to them, "You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition. Verse ConceptsCommands, in NT

"Take this scroll of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God. It will remain there as a witness against you, Verse ConceptsBook of the LawThings As WitnessesThe Law Given To Israel


Hilkiah the high priest informed Shaphan the scribe, "I found the law scroll in the Lord's temple." Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan and he read it. Verse ConceptsArchivesScribesReading The ScripturesThe Law Given To Israel

The king went up to the Lord's temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, all the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the prophets. All the people were there, from the youngest to the oldest. He read aloud all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord's temple. Verse ConceptsBook of the CovenantReadingLiteracyReading The ScripturesGreat And Small

They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the scroll of the law of the Lord. They traveled to all the cities of Judah and taught the people. Verse ConceptsBook of the LawBible

They read from the book of God's law, explaining it and imparting insight. Thus the people gained understanding from what was read. Verse ConceptsUnderstandingReading The ScripturesReading The Bible

For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law." Verse ConceptsCurses, DivineAtonementBook of the LawAffirmative ActionBible, Names OfTrusting In WorksThe Curse Of The LawUnder The LawWorks Of The LawBreaking The Ten Commandmentslawcursesobeying

And he revealed to you the covenant he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments, writing them on two stone tablets. Verse ConceptsLaw, Ten CommandmentsStonesTabletsTen ThingsTwo Stone TabletsTerms Of The Covenant At Sinaicommandments


Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets. Verse ConceptsFinger Of GodLaw, Ten CommandmentsengravingGod Writing With His Finger

So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfThe Number FortyWaterForty DaysTen ThingsMore Than One MonthFasting For Long PeriodsTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiThe Law Given Through Moses


The Lord then wrote on the tablets the same words, the ten commandments, which he had spoken to you at the mountain from the middle of the fire at the time of that assembly, and he gave them to me. Verse ConceptsLaw, Ten CommandmentsTen ThingsGod Appearing In FireThe Law Given By God

There, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua inscribed on the stones a duplicate of the law written by Moses. Verse ConceptsCopies Of Documents

On that day the book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people. They found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite may ever enter the assembly of God, Verse ConceptsAudiencesReadingMoses, Significance OfReading The ScripturesBook of the LawLaws Restricting Foreigners

The king went up to the Lord's temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, all the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the prophets. All the people were there, from the youngest to the oldest. He read aloud all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord's temple. Verse ConceptsBook of the CovenantReadingLiteracyReading The ScripturesGreat And Small

Joshua read aloud every commandment Moses had given before the whole assembly of Israel, including the women, children, and resident foreigners who lived among them. Verse ConceptsForeignersChildren, needs ofTeaching ChildrenTraining Children

So he read it before the plaza in front of the Water Gate from dawn till noon before the men and women and those children who could understand. All the people were eager to hear the book of the law. Verse ConceptsDawnNoonBible, Names OfNamed GatesReading The Bible

Ezra read in the book of the law of God day by day, from the first day to the last. They observed the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly as was required. Verse ConceptsCongregationWeeksDaily DutyDay 8Seven DaysReading The Scriptures

when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses, you must read this law before them within their hearing. Verse ConceptsChoicesPilgrimageReading The ScripturesReading The Bible

So you go there the next time all the people of Judah come in from their towns to fast in the Lord's temple. Read out loud where all of them can hear you what I told you the Lord said, which you wrote in the scroll. Verse ConceptsReading The ScripturesFasting Regularly

when he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace, Verse ConceptsNew ThingsLaws, AbolishedLaw, And GospelRitual LawRitualSalvation, Nature OfLaw, TemporaryAbolish, Evil ThingsAnnulmentTwo GroupsNew LifeChurch Distinct From IsraelMaking Peace With God

He has destroyed what was against us, a certificate of indebtedness expressed in decrees opposed to us. He has taken it away by nailing it to the cross. Verse ConceptsAbolish, Fulfilled By ChristBlottingLaws, AbolishedOnce Saved Always SavedRitual LawSin BearerLaw, TemporaryNailsCancelling DebtsSignificance Of Christ's CrucifixionThe CrossDebttransition

On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless, Verse ConceptsLaws, AbolishedAnnulmentUseless Words

When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear. Verse ConceptsLaws, AbolishedPast, TheOld ThingsGrowingcovenant

For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship. Verse ConceptsFreedom from the LawLaws, AbolishedForeshadowingRestored In Jesus ChristPerfection, HumanPriesthood, In NtShadowsWorship, Acceptable AttitudesLaw, TemporaryAnimal Sacrifices, As A Type Of ChristAntitypesUnceasingEvery YearDoing RepeatedlyOffering SacrificesReligious FreedomFreedomSacrificeSelf Imagelawimagereality

Now this phrase "once more" indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain. Verse ConceptsLaws, AbolishedDestruction Of The WorldGod ShakingThings ShakingThe keyword of HebrewsRemoving People From Your Life

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the descendant to whom the promise had been made. It was administered through angels by an intermediary. Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstAngels as God's servantsGuardiansLaw, Purpose OfMediationMoses, Significance OfResponsibility, To GodAngels Giving The LawGod's Promise To AbrahamAngels As MediatorsAngels Activities Among BelieversAngelic GuardianshipPromises

realizing that law is not intended for a righteous person, but for lawless and rebellious people, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, Verse ConceptsLawlessnessGrace, And SalvationMurderSin, Nature OfHomosexualityJudgement On MurderersLack Of Holinessdisobedience

Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith. Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstLaw, And GospelLaw, Purpose OfJustification By FaithSchoolsRighteous By FaithSchoollawJustification Is Not By The Law



What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, "Do not covet." Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstethics, and graceHeart, Fallen And RedeemedJustice, In Believers' LivesKnowledge, Of SinKnowledge Of Good And EvilLaw, Purpose OfLaw, Ten CommandmentsMind, Of GodPopularityEffect Of The LawExcellent LawFar Be It!No SinThe Entrance Of SinCovetousnesslaw



when he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace, Verse ConceptsNew ThingsLaws, AbolishedLaw, And GospelRitual LawRitualSalvation, Nature OfLaw, TemporaryAbolish, Evil ThingsAnnulmentTwo GroupsNew LifeChurch Distinct From IsraelMaking Peace With God

For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God. Verse ConceptsLaw, And GospelSpiritual Life, Described ByDead To SinLiving The Life

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God. Verse ConceptsLast JudgmentMutenessSilenceUnder The LawAccountabilityGuilt







Only may the Lord give you insight and understanding when he places you in charge of Israel, so you may obey the law of the Lord your God. Verse ConceptsParents Prayer For Their ChildrenLibertinismWisdom, Human Importance

Be very strong! Carefully obey all that is written in the law scroll of Moses so you won't swerve from it to the right or the left, Verse ConceptsBook of the LawLibertinismMoses, Significance OfThe Authority Of ScriptureWord Of GodBraveryNot Turning AsideStanding FirmKeep The Commandments!

It must be with him constantly and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out. Verse ConceptsLearningStudentsKings, How They Should ActReading The ScripturesFear God!Keep The Commandments!Reading The Bible

If a resident foreigner lives among you and wants to keep the Passover to the Lord, he must do so according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its custom. You must have the same statute for the resident foreigner and for the one who was born in the land.'" Verse ConceptsGentiles, In OtOrdinancesPassoverAliens, Believers DutyStrangersForeigners Permitted At The FeastsForeigners Included In The Law

The same law will apply to the person who is native-born and to the foreigner who lives among you." Verse ConceptsForeignersForeigners Included In The LawStrangers in israelAliens

There will be one regulation for you, whether a foreigner or a native citizen, for I am the Lord your God.'" Verse ConceptsGentiles, In OtForeignersAliens, Believers DutyStrangersForeigners Included In The LawThe Lord Is GodStrangers in israelAliens

One law and one custom must apply to you and to the resident foreigner who lives alongside you.'" Verse ConceptsForeignersForeigners Included In The Law

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