Quotes About Covenant

on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.

On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet, saying:

The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former, says the LORD of Hosts. And in this place I will provide peace, declares the LORD of Hosts.”

On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Haggai the prophet, saying,

On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will take you, My servant, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, declares the LORD, and I will make you like My signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the LORD of Hosts.”

“The LORD was very angry with your fathers.

So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ëReturn to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts.í

For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.í”

And the LORD will take possession of Judah as His portion in the Holy Land, and He will once again choose Jerusalem.

Then the angel of the LORD gave this charge to Joshua:

See the stone I have set before Joshua; on that one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave on it an inscription, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day.

“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will complete it. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent me to you.

And you are to tell him that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ëHere is a man whose name is the Branch, and He will branch out from His place and build the temple of the LORD.

Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying,

Again the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying:

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I am jealous for Zion with great zeal; I am jealous for her with great fervor.”

I will bring them back to dwell in Jerusalem, where they will be My people, and I will be their faithful and righteous God.”

But now I will not treat the remnant of this people as I did in the past,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Just as I resolved to bring disaster upon you when your fathers provoked Me to anger, and I did not relent,” says the LORD of Hosts,

I will remove the blood from their mouths and the abominations from between their teeth. Then they too will become a remnant for our God; they will become like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.

But I will camp around My house because of an army, because of those who march to and fro, and never again will an oppressor overrun My people, for now I keep watch with My own eyes.

As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.

And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—this magnificent price at which they valued me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.