17 occurrences

'Perpetual' in the Bible

But as to the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have a perpetual right of redemption.

And the field of the suburbs of their cities shall not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

Verse ConceptsProperty, Land

Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.

Verse ConceptsRuinsDestruction Of Jerusalemfootsteps

Will ye not fear me? saith Jehovah. Will ye not tremble at my presence, who have set the sand a bound for the sea by a perpetual decree, and it shall not pass it? and its waves toss themselves, but they do not prevail; and they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

Verse ConceptsBoundariesSandSeaAttitudes Of RespectOceansAweWavesDivine Power Over NatureBarriersEternal WorldLimits For The SeaSand And GravelFear God!

Why hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back with a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forUnceasingContinual SinMen DeceivingBackslidersapostasy

to make their land an astonishment, a perpetual hissing: every one that passeth by shall be astonished, and shake his head.

Verse ConceptsAstonishmentShaking The HeadHissing

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual wastes.

Verse ConceptsBabylon, Prophecies Ofelection, responsibilities ofCivil authoritiesAuthority, of human institutionsMinistry, Nature OfWar As God's JudgmentHissingGod Will Kill His PeopleMade A Horror

And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will visit on the king of Babylon and on that nation, saith Jehovah, their iniquity, and on the land of the Chaldeans, and I will make it perpetual desolations.

Verse ConceptsBabylon, Prophecies Of70 To 80 Years

For I have sworn by myself, saith Jehovah, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

Verse ConceptsMade A Horror

When they are heated, I will prepare their drink, and I will make them drunken, that they may exult, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsBanquets, ActivitiesLaughterSleep, And DeathGod Making Drunk

And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her governors, and her rulers, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.

Verse ConceptsSleep, And DeathWisdom, Human NatureWisdom, Source Of HumanGod Making DrunkHis Name Is The Lord

Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword, in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

Verse ConceptsMalice, Examples OfEternal Evil

I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsEternal JudgementEmpty CitiesLand Becoming Empty

After many days shalt thou be visited; at the end of years thou shalt come into the land brought back from the sword and gathered out of many peoples, upon the mountains of Israel which have been a perpetual waste: but it is brought forth out from the peoples, and they shall all of them be dwelling in safety.

Verse ConceptsRevelation Of The Future

And thou shalt prepare an oblation with it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and of oil the third part of a hin, to moisten the fine flour: an oblation unto Jehovah continually by a perpetual ordinance.

Verse ConceptsFoodMorning WorshipOrdinancesBreakfastMoist ThingsOil On SacrificesEphah [Ten Omers]Regulations For Cereal OfferingsMeat offerings

Therefore, as I live, saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall certainly be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt-pits, and a perpetual desolation; the remnant of my people shall spoil them, and the residue of my nation shall possess them.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingSaltWeedsAmmonitesSurvivors FavouredSournessPets

Bible Theasaurus

Ceaseless (1 instance)
Constant (38 instances)
Continual (68 instances)
Deathless (1 instance)
Endless (16 instances)
Incessant (3 instances)
Interminable (1 instance)
Perpetual (92 instances)
Unending (16 instances)