Quotes About Covenant

But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.í

And there I have provided a place for the ark, which contains the covenant of the LORD that He made with the children of Israel.”

and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven or on earth, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.

You have kept Your promise to Your servant, my father David. What You spoke with Your mouth You have fulfilled with Your hand this day.

And now, O LORD, God of Israel, please confirm what You promised to Your servant David.

then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to them and their fathers.

O LORD God, do not reject Your anointed one. Remember Your loving devotion to Your servant David.”

the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,

then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with your father David when I said, ëYou will never fail to have a man to rule over Israel.í

But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,

And others will answer, ëBecause they have forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, He has brought all this disaster upon them.í”

As for all the people who remained of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—

So to this day Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David.

But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God:

“Tell Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah and all the Israelites in Judah and Benjamin

Moreover, the priests and Levites from all their districts throughout Israel stood with Rehoboam.

After Rehoboam had established his sovereignty and royal power, he and all Israel with him forsook the Law of the LORD.

Do you not know that the LORD, the God of Israel, has given the kingship of Israel to David and his descendants forever by a covenant of salt?

But did you not drive out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites? And did you not make priests for yourselves as do the peoples of other lands? Now whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams can become a priest of things that are not gods.

But as for us, the LORD is our God. We have not forsaken Him; the priests who minister to the LORD are sons of Aaron, and the Levites attend to their duties.

Every morning and every evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the rows of showbread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps of the gold lampstand. We are carrying out the requirements of the LORD our God, while you have forsaken Him.

And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.

So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.