425 occurrences

'Lord' in the Bible

On the first day of the eleventh month, in the fortieth year, Moses spoke to the Israelis about everything that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.

Verse ConceptsMonthMonth 11

"The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb. He said, "You have been at this mountain long enough.

Verse ConceptsActionsMoving On

Look! I've given you the land that lies ahead. Go in and possess the land that I, the LORD, promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as well as to their descendants.'"

Verse ConceptsBlessings, To AbrahamGod Of The FathersJacob, The PatriarchPossessingAncestorsprocessland

The LORD your God greatly multiplied your numbers, and today you are like the stars in the sky.

May the LORD, the God of your ancestors, increase your numbers a thousand times more, and may he bless you, as he promised you.

Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersA Thousand PeopleGod Multipling PeopleMay God Bless!AbundanceBlessings From GodBlessing OthersBlessings And ProsperityGiving Back

"Then we set out from Horeb and walked through that vast and dreadful desert, where you observed the road to the Amorite hill country. Just as the LORD our God ordained for us, we finally arrived at Kadesh-barnea.

Verse ConceptsMonotony

I told you at that time, "You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is about to give us.

Look! The LORD your God has given the land that lies before you. Go and possess it, just as the LORD God of your ancestors commanded you. Don't be afraid or discouraged.'

Verse ConceptsCourage, In Facing EnemiesdiscouragementAssurance in the life of faithFear, Overcome ByConquestResisting Discouragement

They hand-picked some of the fruit of the land, brought it down to us, and gave a report that said, "The land which the LORD is about to give us is good.'"

Verse ConceptsLand ProducingGiving Good ThingsGod's Plan For UsGiving Back

"However, your ancestors didn't go up. Instead, they rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.

Verse ConceptsAttitudes Of RebellionRebellion, Of IsraelPeople UnwillingRebellion against GodSurrender

You murmured in your tents, "The LORD hates us. He brought us out of the land of Egypt in order to deliver us to the Amorites so he could destroy us.

Verse ConceptsComplaintsdoubt, results ofResentment, Against GodAmbivalenceGod Hating PeopleGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptGod Will Cause DefeatComplaining

The LORD your God is the One who will be going ahead of you. He'll fight for you just as he did in Egypt before your eyes.

Verse ConceptsGod Going Before

In the desert you saw that the LORD carried you like a man carries his son, on every road you traveled until you reached this place.'

Verse ConceptsFathers, Responsibilities OfLight, NaturalSustaining ProvidenceGod Carrying PeopleGod Led Them Through The Wilderness

"When the LORD heard your complaints, he became angry and declared,

Verse ConceptsGod Paid Attention To ThemComplaining

except Jephunneh's son Caleb. He will see it and I will give to him and to his descendants the land on which he has walked because he wholeheartedly followed the LORD.'

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfFollowing God

"The LORD was also furious with me because of you. He said: "You will not enter the land.

Verse ConceptsGod Angry With Individualsland

"You responded to me and said, "We have sinned against the LORD. We will now go up and fight according to what the LORD our God commanded.' So each man put on his weapon for battle and recklessly started out for the hill country."

Verse ConceptsUnderestimationEasy For PeopleWe Have Sinned

"Then the LORD told me: "Tell them not to go up and fight because I will not be in their midst, or else you will be defeated before your enemies.'

Verse ConceptsdefeatGod ForbiddingEnemy Attacks

"I spoke to you but you didn't listen. Instead you rebelled against the command of the LORD and went up to the hill country.

Verse ConceptsSelf WillProud People

You returned and cried out in the LORD's presence, but the LORD didn't hear your voice or listen to you.

Verse ConceptsWeepingSpiritual Deafness

"We turned and set out for the desert on the road to the Reed Sea, just as the LORD had directed me. We traveled around Mount Seir for many days.

Verse ConceptsComing To The Red SeaGod Led Them Through The WildernessStaying A Long TimeFalling

Indeed, the LORD your God blessed all the works of your hands. He knows about your travels through this vast desert. The LORD your God was with you these past 40 years, so that you didn't lack anything.

Verse ConceptsLackDesertsGod, The ProviderJourneyThe Number FortyWatchfulness, DivineDivine SuppliesanniversariesGod, All knowing40 To 50 YearsPlenty In The WildernessGod Has Been With YouBlessings From Godwandering

"Then the LORD told me, "Don't harass Moab or provoke them to war, because I won't give you any part of their land. I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their property.

Verse ConceptsAvoid QuarrelsGifts Of GodOther Gifts Of Godharassment

The Horites used to live in Seir before the descendants of Esau dispossessed them, exterminated them, and settled there instead, just as Israel will do in the land of its possession, which the LORD gave them.)

Verse ConceptsGod Gave The Land

Now from the time we left Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Wadi Zered was 38 years. All of that generation, the soldiers in the camp, were destroyed just as the LORD swore they would be.

Verse ConceptsGenerations30 To 40 YearsDeath As Punishment

Indeed, the hand of the LORD was against them to root them out from the camp until they were utterly destroyed."

Verse ConceptsDeath As PunishmentGod Opposing

Then the LORD spoke to me,

a great people, numerous, and tall as the Anakim. But the LORD destroyed the Rephaim, so that the Ammonites dispossessed them and settled there instead.

as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir did for me, as did the Moabites who live in Ar. I'll pass through, until I will have crossed the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is about to give us.'

Verse ConceptsCrossing Into The Promised Land

But King Sihon of Heshbon did not allow us to pass through, because the LORD your God had hardened his spirit and made him arrogant, in order to deliver him into your control today.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Of The WillHardened HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedStiffnecked PeopleGod Hardening PeoplePeople Unwilling

"Then the LORD told me, "See, I've begun to deliver Sihon and his territory over to you. Prepare to take possession of his land.'

The LORD our God delivered him to us, so we attacked him, his son, and his whole army.

From Aroer on the edge of Arnon Valley and from the town all the way to Gilead, there was no city that was too strong for us the LORD our God delivered them all to us.

Verse ConceptsCities Under AttackArnonThose God Gave Into Their Hands

You did not encroach onto Ammonite land, the banks of the Wadi Jabbok, the towns in the hill country, and all the other places that were forbidden by the LORD our God."

Verse ConceptsGod Forbidding

Then the LORD told me, "Don't fear him, because I've delivered him, his army, and his territory into your control. Do to him just as you have done to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.'

Verse ConceptsDo Not Fear Men

"So the LORD our God also delivered into our control King Og of Bashan, along with his whole army. We attacked him until there were no survivors.

Verse ConceptsNo Survivors

"Then I commanded you at that time, "The Lord your God gave you this land as a possession. Those equipped for battle every man a warrior will cross before your fellow Israelis.

Verse ConceptsUnity, Of God's PeopleGod Gave The Land

until the LORD grants rest to your fellow Israelis like you. When they take possession of the territory that the LORD your God is about to give them on the other side of the Jordan River, then each of you may return to the territory that I've allotted for you.'

Verse ConceptsNot going home directlyTime Of Peace

"I also charged Joshua at that time, "You witnessed everything that the LORD your God did to the two kings. Indeed, the LORD will do this to all the kingdoms which you are about to enter.

Verse ConceptsLooking At God's WorksTwo Other Men

You are not to fear them, because the LORD your God will fight for you.'"

Verse ConceptsBattlesDo Not Fear Men

"LORD God, you've begun to show your greatness and your strong power to your servant. For what god in heaven or on earth can equal your works and mighty deeds?

Verse ConceptsGod, Power OfMiracles, Nature OfStrength, DivinePower Of God, DescribedMiracles Showing God's PowerBeginning Of SalvationNo One Is Like GodNo Other Acts Like Godgreatness

"However, the LORD was furious with me because of you. He did not listen to me. Instead, the LORD said, "You are not to speak to me about this matter again!

Verse ConceptsGod Angry With Individuals

"Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and the ordinances that I'm teaching you to observe so you may live and go in to take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is about to give you.

Verse Conceptsethics, and graceCommands, in OTHearingKnowledge, Of SinLife Through Keeping The LawKeep The Commandments!The Law Given To Israel

You saw with your own eyes what he did in Baal Peor. The LORD your God exterminated from among you every man who followed Baal of Peor.

Verse ConceptsBaal Worship, HistoryGod KillingGod Killed His PeopleLooking At God's Works

But all of you who are clinging to the LORD your God are alive today.

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By God

See! I taught you the statutes and the ordinances, just as the LORD God commanded. Therefore, observe them when you enter the land you are about to possess.

Verse ConceptsGod TeachingKeep The Commandments!Old Testament Claims Inspiration

For what great nation has a god so near like the LORD our God whenever we call on him?

Verse ConceptsAnswered PromisesClosenessUnique Israel

The day you stood in the presence of the LORD your God in Horeb, the LORD told me, "Gather the people before me so they may hear my words, learn to revere me the whole time that they live in the land, and teach them to their children.'"

Verse Conceptsdiscipleship, nature ofLearning From Other PeopleStandingBibleStudentsAssembling IsraelTeaching ChildrenFear God!

the LORD your God spoke from the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, but you saw no form; there was only a voice.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfGod Appearing In FireHearing God's VoiceNot Seeing God

The LORD commanded me at that time to teach you to observe the statutes and ordinances in the land after you cross over to take possession of it.

Verse ConceptsScripture TeachingKeep The Commandments!

"Therefore, for your own sake, be very careful, since you did not see any form on the day that the LORD your God spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of the fire.

Verse ConceptsWatchfulness, Of BelieversGod Appearing In FireNot Seeing God

Do not gaze toward the heavens and observe the sun, the moon, the stars the entire array of the sky with the intent to worship and serve what the LORD your God gave every nation.

Verse ConceptsAstrologyPlanetsMoonSkyStarsThe SunIdolatry Consists OfDo Not Have Other godsIdolatrous Worship Of The MoonWorship Of The SunSunWorshiping TogetherSunshineThe Moonadoration

For the LORD took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace out of Egypt to be the people of his inheritance, as you are today.

Verse ConceptsFurnacesIron, Figurative Use OfIronPeople Of God, In OtSevere AfflictionsGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

"But the LORD was angry with me because of you. So he swore that I'll never cross the Jordan River to enter the good land that the LORD your God is about to give you as an inheritance.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityGod Angry With Individuals

Be careful! Otherwise, you will forget the covenant of the LORD your God, who established that covenant with you. Don't make carved images of any likeness in violation of everything that you were commanded by the LORD your God.

Verse ConceptsForgetting GodAvoiding Idolatry

"After you've borne children and grandchildren, have been there for a long time in the land, have become so corrupted that you make images of any form, and have done evil in the eyes of the LORD your God, you will provoke him to anger.

Verse ConceptsProvokingIdols

Moreover, the LORD will scatter you among the nations, and you'll be fewer in number in the nations where the LORD your God will drive you.

Verse ConceptsRemnantScattering The PeoplesGod Scattering IsraelDriven Away By GodFew People

In your distress, when all these things happen to you in days to come and you return to the LORD your God, then you will hear his voice.

Verse ConceptsDistressReturning To GodEnd Of Days

For God is compassionate. The LORD your God won't fail you. He won't destroy you or forget the covenant that he confirmed with your ancestors."

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentAssurance, basis ofGod's attitude towards peopleMercifulnessGod's MercyGod Remembering His CovenantGod Not ForsakingMercy

Or has any god ever taken for himself one nation out from another nation with testings, signs, wonders, wars, awesome power, and magnificent, terrifying deeds as the LORD your God did in Egypt before your eyes?

Verse ConceptsMiracles, Nature OfStrength, DivineArm Of God

"May you acknowledge and take to heart this day that the LORD is God in the heavens above and over the earth below there is no other God.

Verse ConceptsGod, Present EverywhereGod, Sovereignty OfGod, Uniqueness OfOrthodoxy, In OtNo Other Is GodThe Lord Is GodThe Lord [Yahweh] Is God

May you observe his statutes and keep his commands that I'm giving you today, so that life may go well for you and for your descendants after you. That way, you'll live a long life in the land that the LORD your God is about to give you permanently."

Verse ConceptsTemporal Blessingsethics, and graceBlessings, To AbrahamOld Age, Attainment OfHow To Live LongEternal PossessionResults Of Keeping The CommandmentsKeep The Commandments!

When the LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb,

Verse ConceptsCovenant Made At Sinai

it was not with our ancestors that the LORD made this covenant, but with us we who are here today all of us who are now living.

Verse ConceptsAncestorscovenant

I stood at that time as mediator between the LORD and you to declare his message to you, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain. He said:

Verse ConceptsMediatorWord Of GodFear, Caused ByFear, Of UnknownFire Emanating From GodThose Frightened Of God

""I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt from the house of slavery.

Verse ConceptsThe Lord Is GodGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

You are not to bow down to them in worship or serve them, because I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the guilt of parents on children, to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

Verse ConceptsGenerationsGod's attitude towards peopleGod, Zeal OfSin, God's Judgment OnIdolatry Consists OfGod, JealousSins Of The FathersAvoiding IdolatryDo Not Have Other godsHating God

""Observe the Sabbath day, maintaining its holiness, just as the LORD your God commanded.

Verse Conceptsethics, personalHoly TimesSabbath Observed

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You are not to do any work neither you, your son, nor your daughter, your male and female servants, your oxen and donkeys, nor any of your livestock, nor any foreigner who lives among you, so that your male and female servants may rest as you do.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyWork, And RestStrangersThe Seventh Day Of The WeekForeigners Included In The LawDay 7No Work On Feast DaysRegulations For Men And Women

You are to remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, but the LORD your God brought you out from there with great power and a show of force. Therefore, the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfGod, As RedeemerHand Of GodHolidayRememberingCaptivity, Of IsraelAbusive ParentsArm Of GodGod's HandGroups Of SlavesKeeping The SabbathGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

"The LORD declared these commands in a loud voice to your entire assembly on the mountain from out of the fire and dark clouds, and nothing more was added. He inscribed them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

Verse ConceptsCongregationStonesTabletsVoicesAdding To GodGod Appearing In FireTwo Stone Tablets

"The LORD our God truly has displayed his glory and power, for we heard him from out of the fire today. We have witnessed how God spoke to human beings, yet they lived.

Verse ConceptsGod, Glory OfGlory Of GodGod Appearing In FireLiving Despite God's Presencegreatness

Now therefore, why should we die? This great fire will consume us. If we continue to listen to the voice of the LORD our God any longer, we'll die.

Verse ConceptsDeath Due To God's PresenceFire Emanating From Godrisk

As for you, go near and listen to everything that the LORD our God will say to you, then repeat it to us, and we'll listen and obey.'

Verse ConceptsMediatorTheocracySpeaking The Word God GivesListening To God

"The LORD heard what you said. He told me: "I've heard what this people said. Everything they said was good.

Verse ConceptsGod Paid Attention To Them

You must be careful to do what the LORD your God commanded you, turning neither to the left nor to the right.

Verse ConceptsOrthodoxy, In OtMoving ForwardNot Turning Aside

You are to walk in every pathway that the LORD your God commanded you, so that life may go well for you, and so that you will prolong your days in the land that you will possess.'"

Verse ConceptsTemporal BlessingsGod's WaysOld Age, Attainment OfOrthodoxy, In OtWalkingHow To Live LongLife Through Keeping The LawLong LifeObedience

"Now these are the commands, decrees, and ordinances that the LORD commanded me to teach you. Obey them in the land you are entering to possess,

Verse ConceptsMind, Of Godstatuescommandments

so that you, your children, and your grandchildren may fear the LORD your God. Keep all his decrees and commandments that I'm giving you every day of your life, so you may live a long time.

Verse ConceptsFutureFear Of The LordHow To Live Longstatues

Listen, Israel! Be careful to obey, so that life may go well for you and that you may increase greatly. Just as the LORD God of your ancestors told you, you'll have a land flowing with milk and honey.

Verse ConceptsFoodLand, Spiritual Aspects OfMilkGod Multipling PeopleMilk And Honey

"When the LORD your God brings you to the land that he promised to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, he will give you large and beautiful cities that you didn't build,

Verse ConceptsCityLargenessBuilding CitiesThe Promised LandCities In IsraelGod Gave The Land

be careful not to forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and slavery.

Verse ConceptsForgettingBeing BewareGroups Of SlavesGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egyptslavery

For the LORD your God who is among you is a jealous God. He will turn his anger against you and destroy you from the surface of the land."

Verse ConceptsJealousyGod, JealousGod Is Among YouGod Will Kill His People

Be sure to observe the commands of the LORD your God, his testimonies and his decrees that he gave you.

Verse Conceptsethics, and graceDiligence, Objects OfdiligenceTestimoniesKeep The Commandments!statuescommandments

Do what is good and right in the LORD's sight so it may go well with you. Then you'll enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God promised to your ancestors,

Verse ConceptsOaths, DivineDoing RightDoing The Right ThingDoing Your Best

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