28 occurrences

'Perpetual' in the Bible

And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with NoahGenerationsThe Eternal CovenantThe RainbowRainbowcovenant

And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.

Verse ConceptsOrdinancesPriesthood, In OtPriests, Institution In Ot TimesConsecrationPerpetual StatutesDressGod Appointing OthersTurban And Caps

And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.

Verse ConceptsTwilight

Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsCommemorationThe Eternal CovenantKeeping The SabbathTerms Of The Covenant At Sinaicovenantcelebrating

It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

Verse ConceptsFatnessExclusivenessBlood, as basis of lifeOrdinancesPerpetual StatutesPeople Consuming BloodFat Of AnimalsForbidden Food

This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.

Verse ConceptsAnointed Old Testament LeadersFractions, One HalfAnimal Sacrifices, BurntAnointing PriestsAt Morning And EveningHalf Of ThingsA Tenth Of ThingsEphah [Ten Omers]

And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesPerpetual StatutesShowbreadPermitted To Eat Offerings

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

Verse ConceptsProperty, Land

And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.

Verse ConceptsRitual WashingPerpetual StatutesSprinkling WaterClean ClothesUnclean Until Evening

O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.

Verse ConceptsEternal JudgementBlotted Outremembrancefinishing

Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

Verse ConceptsRuinsDestruction Of Jerusalemfootsteps

And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

Verse Conceptsevangelising

Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

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

Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forUnceasingContinual SinMen DeceivingBackslidersapostasy

To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

Verse ConceptsAstonishmentShaking The HeadHissing

And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

Verse ConceptsHumiliationShameNot ForgettingGod Requite Them!

Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and 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 will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

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 punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

Verse ConceptsBabylon, Prophecies Of70 To 80 Years

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

Verse ConceptsMade A Horror

They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimCovenant, the newSaints, As PilgrimsThe Eternal CovenantPeople Going AstrayAsking Particular QuestionsUnited With GodDirection

In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

Verse ConceptsBanquets, ActivitiesLaughterSleep, And DeathGod Making Drunk

And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD 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 shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:

Verse ConceptsMalice, Examples OfEternal Evil

I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

Verse ConceptsEternal JudgementEmpty CitiesLand Becoming Empty

And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD.

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

He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.

Verse ConceptsHillsTheophanyThe AlmightyEternal WorldMountains RemovedGod ShakingThe Ground Being SplitGod Saves From Sin And Death

Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people 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)

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