'Commandment' in the Bible

Now the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandment which I have written for their instruction.”

There I will meet with you; and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak to you about all that I will give you in commandment for the sons of Israel.

These are the numbered men of the Kohathite families, everyone who was serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the Lord through Moses.

These are the numbered men of the families of the sons of Gershon, everyone who was serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the Lord.

These are the numbered men of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the Lord through Moses.

According to the commandment of the Lord through Moses, they were numbered, everyone by his serving or carrying; thus these were his numbered men, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

So they moved out for the first time according to the commandment of the Lord through Moses.

But Moses said, “Why then are you transgressing the commandment of the Lord, when it will not succeed?

even all that the Lord has commanded you through Moses, from the day when the Lord gave commandment and onward throughout your generations,

Because he has despised the word of the Lord and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; his guilt will be on him.’”

“Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which the Lord your God has commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it,

It will be righteousness for us if we are careful to observe all this commandment before the Lord our God, just as He commanded us.

Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.

“You shall therefore keep every commandment which I am commanding you today, so that you may be strong and go in and possess the land into which you are about to cross to possess it;

For if you are careful to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and hold fast to Him,

if only you listen obediently to the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all this commandment which I am commanding you today.

that his heart may not be lifted up above his countrymen and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel.

if you carefully observe all this commandment which I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in His ways always—then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three.

“For this commandment which I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it out of reach.

You have not forsaken your brothers these many days to this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the Lord your God.

Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Samuel said to Saul, “You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, for now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.

and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have disobeyed the command of the Lord, and have not observed the commandment which the Lord your God commanded you,

The statutes and the ordinances and the law and the commandment which He wrote for you, you shall observe to do forever; and you shall not fear other gods.

But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king’s commandment was, “Do not answer him.”

and did so according to the daily rule, offering them up according to the commandment of Moses, for the sabbaths, the new moons and the three annual feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Booths.

And they did not depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites in any manner or concerning the storehouses.

and commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers and to observe the law and the commandment.

Whenever any dispute comes to you from your brethren who live in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you shall warn them so that they may not be guilty before the Lord, and wrath may not come on you and your brethren. Thus you shall do and you will not be guilty.

They assembled their brothers, consecrated themselves, and went in to cleanse the house of the Lord, according to the commandment of the king by the words of the Lord.

Every work which he began in the service of the house of God in law and in commandment, seeking his God, he did with all his heart and prospered.

So now let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

For there was a commandment from the king concerning them and a firm regulation for the song leaders day by day.

In each and every province and in each and every city, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree arrived, there was gladness and joy for the Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many among the peoples of the land became Jews, for the dread of the Jews had fallen on them.

The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart;The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Be to me a rock of habitation to which I may continually come;You have given commandment to save me,For You are my rock and my fortress.

I have seen a limit to all perfection;Your commandment is exceedingly broad.

My son, observe the commandment of your fatherAnd do not forsake the teaching of your mother;

For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light;And reproofs for discipline are the way of life

The one who despises the word will be in debt to it,But the one who fears the commandment will be rewarded.

He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul,But he who is careless of conduct will die.

But they were silent and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Do not answer him.”

Then King Zedekiah gave commandment, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guardhouse and gave him a loaf of bread daily from the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guardhouse.

“And now this commandment is for you, O priests.

Then you will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that My covenant may continue with Levi,” says the Lord of hosts.