Thematic Bible: Separation of
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Israel » Separation of » Of israel from the heathen, encouraged
How will it be known that I and Your people have found favor in Your sight unless You go with us? I and Your people will be distinguished by this from all the other people on the face of the earth.”
Therefore, make a confession to Yahweh the God of your fathers and do His will. Separate yourselves from the surrounding peoples and your foreign wives.”
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and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
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So do not give your daughters to their sons in marriage or take their daughters for your sons. Never seek their peace or prosperity, so that you will be strong, eat the good things of the land, and leave it as an inheritance to your sons forever.”
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You are not to make a covenant with the people who are living in this land, and you are to tear down their altars. But you have not obeyed Me. What is this you have done?
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and so that you do not associate with these nations remaining among you. Do not call on the names of their gods or make an oath to them; do not worship them or bow down to them.
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You are to be holy to Me because I, Yahweh, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be Mine.
and I watch them from the hills.
There is a people living alone;
it does not consider itself among the nations.
Therefore, this is what the Lord says:
If you return, I will restore you;
you will stand in My presence.
And if you speak noble words,
rather than worthless ones,
you will be My spokesman.
It is they who must return to you;
you must not return to them.
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you will stand in My presence.
And if you speak noble words,
rather than worthless ones,
you will be My spokesman.
It is they who must return to you;
you must not return to them.
Israel » Separation of » Vine, a
and planted it with the finest vines.
He built a tower in the middle of it
and even dug out a winepress there.
He expected
but it yielded worthless grapes.
from the very best seed.
How then could you turn into
a degenerate, foreign vine?
it yields fruit for itself.
The more his fruit increased,
the more he increased the altars.
The better his land produced,
the better they made the sacred pillars.
You drove out the nations and planted it.
“Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire as fuel, so I will give up the residents of Jerusalem.
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low in height with its branches turned toward him,
yet its roots stayed under it.
So it became a vine,
produced branches, and sent out shoots.
planted by the water;
it was fruitful and full of branches
because of plentiful waters.
Israel » Separation of » Theocracy of
But the Lord told him, “Listen to the people and everything they say to you. They have not rejected you; they have rejected Me as their king.
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Then all the people responded together, “We will do all that the Lord has spoken.” So Moses brought the people’s words back to the Lord.
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At the Lord’s command the Israelites set out, and at the Lord’s command they camped. As long as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle, they camped.
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so that you may enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, which He is making with you today, so that you may enter into His oath
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But Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord will rule over you.”
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But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was coming against you, you said to me, ‘No, we must have a king rule over us’—even though the Lord your God is your king.
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