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'Commandments' in the Bible

Moses was there with the Lord 40 days and 40 nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. He wrote the Ten Commandments, the words of the covenant, on the tablets.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfThe Number FortyWaterForty DaysTen ThingsMore Than One MonthFasting For Long PeriodsTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiThe Law Given Through Moses

He declared His covenant to you. He commanded you to follow the Ten Commandments, which He wrote on two stone tablets.

Verse ConceptsLaw, Ten CommandmentsStonesTabletsTen ThingsTwo Stone TabletsTerms Of The Covenant At Sinaicommandments

Then on the day of the assembly, the Lord wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that He had spoken to you on the mountain from the fire. The Lord gave them to me,

Verse ConceptsLaw, Ten CommandmentsTen ThingsGod Appearing In FireThe Law Given By God

and keep your obligation to the Lord your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commands, ordinances, and decrees. This is written in the law of Moses, so that you will have success in everything you do and wherever you turn,

Verse Conceptsethics, and graceSecrets To SuccessMoses, Significance OfWatchfulness, Of BelieversKings, How They Should ActTestimoniesKeep The Commandments!Success Through GodThe Law Given Through Moses

If you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commands just as your father David did, I will give you a long life.”

Verse ConceptsAgingCommands, in OTKingship, HumanLife, HumanReward, DivineHow To Live LongKeep The Commandments!

“As for this temple you are building—if you walk in My statutes, observe My ordinances, and keep all My commands by walking in them, I will fulfill My promise to you, which I made to your father David.

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!

“‘However, I will not take the whole kingdom from his hand but will let him be ruler all the days of his life because of My servant David, whom I chose and who kept My commands and My statutes.

Verse ConceptsRulers

“‘After that, if you obey all I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight in order to keep My statutes and My commands as My servant David did, I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give you Israel.

Verse Conceptsethics, and graceCommands, in OTBuildingKingsGod Will Be With YouKeep The Commandments!The Dynasty Of David

tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you. But you were not like My servant David, who kept My commands and followed Me with all of his heart, doing only what is right in My eyes.

Verse ConceptsHeart, And Holy SpiritWhole Heartedness

He replied, “I have not destroyed Israel, but you and your father’s house have, because you have abandoned the Lord’s commands and followed the Baals.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentevil, believers' responses toRebukeForsaking God's ThingsFollowers Of BaalTroubling Groups Of People

Still, the Lord warned Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep My commands and statutes according to all the law I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through My servants the prophets.”

Verse Conceptsethics, and graceProphets, Role OfRepentance, Nature OfSeersSin, God's Remedy ForInspiration Of The Holy Spirit, Purpose OfGod Spoke By The ProphetsKeep The Commandments!Old Testament Claims Inspirationprophets

They abandoned all the commands of the Lord their God. They made cast images for themselves, two calves, and an Asherah pole. They worshiped the whole heavenly host and served Baal.

Verse ConceptsPagan GodsAstrologyBowingCalvesHost Of HeavenSculptureStarsGolden CalvesForsaking God's ThingsTwo AnimalsServing Asherah

Even Judah did not keep the commands of the Lord their God but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced.

Verse ConceptsBreaking God's Lawcommandments

They are still practicing the former customs to this day. None of them fear the Lord or observe their statutes and ordinances, the law and commandments the Lord commanded the descendants of Jacob. He had renamed him Israel.

Verse ConceptsOrdinancesGod Renaming PeopleFalse Religion To This DayBreaking God's LawImmigrants

He remained faithful to Yahweh and did not turn from following Him but kept the commands the Lord had commanded Moses.

Verse ConceptsSteadfastness, Examples OfClinging To God

Next, the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant in the presence of the Lord to follow the Lord and to keep His commands, His decrees, and His statutes with all his mind and with all his heart, and to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book; all the people agreed to the covenant.

Verse ConceptsAgreement, Before GodGuaranteeHeart, And Holy SpiritPledgesReformationReligionConsecration, Examples OfPillars For Solomon's TempleWhole HeartednessLater Covenants With God

I will establish his kingdom forever if he perseveres in keeping My commands and My ordinances as he is today.’

Verse ConceptsChrist Reigning Forever

“So now in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, observe and follow all the commands of the Lord your God so that you may possess this good land and leave it as an inheritance to your descendants forever.

Give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and to carry out all Your commands, Your decrees, and Your statutes, and to build the temple for which I have made provision.

Verse ConceptsIntercessionParents Prayer For Their ChildrenCommands, in OTIntercessory PrayerParents Duty To Childrenstructure

Then the king stood at his post and made a covenant in the Lord’s presence to follow the Lord and to keep His commands, His decrees, and His statutes with all his heart and with all his soul in order to carry out the words of the covenant written in this book.

Verse ConceptsReligion

This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in matters of the Lord’s commands and statutes for Israel:

Verse ConceptsJudaismLettersArtaxerxes The KingCopies Of Documents

Now, our God, what can we say in light of this? For we have abandoned the commands

Verse ConceptsForsaking GodForsaking God's Things

should we break Your commands again and intermarry with the peoples who commit these detestable practices? Wouldn’t You become so angry with us that You would destroy us, leaving no survivors?

Verse ConceptsEvil AssociationsIntermarriageWill God Be Angry?

You came down on Mount Sinai,and spoke to them from heaven.You gave them impartial ordinances, reliable instructions,and good statutes and commands.

Verse ConceptsExcellent LawGod Speaks From Heaven

You revealed Your holy Sabbath to them,and gave them commands, statutes, and instructionthrough Your servant Moses.

Verse ConceptsServants Of The LordHoly TimesSabbaths InstitutedGod's Things RevealedThe Law Given Through Moses

You warned them to turn back to Your law,but they acted arrogantlyand would not obey Your commands.They sinned against Your ordinances,which a person will live by if he does them.They stubbornly resisted,stiffened their necks, and would not obey.

Verse ConceptsSin, Nature OfStiffnecked PeopleLife Through Keeping The LawWorks Of The LawProud People

Our kings, leaders, priests, and ancestorsdid not obey Your lawor listen to Your commandsand warnings You gave them.

Verse ConceptsImperfection, Influence OfBreaking God's Law

We will impose the following commands on ourselves: To give an eighth of an ounce of silver yearly for the service of the house of our God:

Verse ConceptsConsecrated Breadethics, socialCoinageTaxOne ThirdEvery YearTax To Be Paid

so that they might put their confidence in Godand not forget God’s works,but keep His commands.

Verse ConceptsdistrustNot ForgettingKeep The Commandments!Trust In God!

if they dishonor My statutesand do not keep My commands,

Verse ConceptsIf You Do Not Keep Commands

I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed:Ah, Lord—the great and awe-inspiring God who keeps His gracious covenant with those who love Him and keep His commands—

Verse ConceptsConfession, Examples OfCommitment, to GodSin ConfessedGod Is To Be FearedGod Keeps CovenantConfession of sinconfessing

we have sinned, done wrong, acted wickedly, rebelled, and turned away from Your commands and ordinances.

Verse ConceptsRebellion Against God, Shown InWe Have SinnedBreaking God's Law

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