14 occurrences

'Order' in the Bible

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to spite Me.

Verse Conceptsdrink offeringDoughQueensTablesFirewoodKneading DoughDifferent GodsFood For Other godsWorshipping Material ThingsServing Asherahgathering

in order to confirm the oath which I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day.”’” Then I said, “Amen, O Lord.”

Verse ConceptsAmenMilk And Honey

Yet they did not listen or incline their ears, but stiffened their necks in order not to listen or take correction.

Verse ConceptsDepravity Of ManImpenitence, Warnings AgainstIndifferenceListeningResponseRefusing To HearObstinate Individuals

Yet you have not listened to Me,” declares the Lord, “in order that you might provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.

Verse ConceptsRefusing To Hear

For they prophesy a lie to you in order to remove you far from your land; and I will drive you out and you will perish.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentWicked ProphetsThe Lord Will Drive Them Out

for I have not sent them,” declares the Lord, “but they prophesy falsely in My name, in order that I may drive you out and that you may perish, you and the prophets who prophesy to you.”

Verse ConceptsWicked ProphetsGod Not SendingProphets Who Were Not Sent

Thus says the Lord,Who gives the sun for light by dayAnd the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar;The Lord of hosts is His name:

Verse ConceptsFate, And FatalismAstronomyCommands, in OTLight, NaturalMoonNatureOceansOrderly PatternsGod As A WarriorHis Name Is The LordSun Moon And Stars Before GodThe Sea Stirred UpSunshineThe Moon

“If this fixed order departsFrom before Me,” declares the Lord,“Then the offspring of Israel also will ceaseFrom being a nation before Me forever.”

Verse ConceptsOrderly Patternsisrael

Perhaps the house of Judah will hear all the calamity which I plan to bring on them, in order that every man will turn from his evil way; then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

Verse ConceptsAssurance, nature ofPlansGod Will Bring HarmGod Will Forgive

that Jeremiah went out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin in order to take possession of some property there among the people.

Verse ConceptsTaking Possession

And they went and stayed in Geruth Chimham, which is beside Bethlehem, in order to proceed into Egypt

Whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, we will listen to the voice of the Lord our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us when we listen to the voice of the Lord our God.”

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodGood Or BadObeying God

But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took the entire remnant of Judah who had returned from all the nations to which they had been driven away, in order to reside in the land of Judah—

Verse ConceptsRemnantThose who returned from exile

“How can it be quiet,When the Lord has given it an order?Against Ashkelon and against the seacoast—There He has assigned it.”

Verse ConceptsNot Being StillNot StillGod's Orders

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