Quotes About Covenant

And Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.

And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.

Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger,

for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.

Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them from the hands of those who plundered them.

So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has transgressed the covenant I laid down for their fathers and has not heeded My voice,

I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.

In this way I will test whether Israel will keep the way of the LORD by walking in it as their fathers did.”

These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through Moses.

And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

So the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-naharaim, and the Israelites served him eight years.

So the land had rest for forty years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died.

The Israelites served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.

So Moab was subdued under the hand of Israel that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.

After Ehud died, the Israelites again did evil in the sight of the LORD.

He sent them a prophet, who told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

I delivered you out of the hands of Egypt and all your oppressors. I drove them out before you and gave you their land.

And I said to you: ëI am the LORD your God. You must not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.í But you did not obey Me.”

So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread and an ephah of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot and brought them out to present to Him under the oak.

So Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and called it The LORD Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your fatherís young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your fatherís altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.

When the men of the city got up in the morning, there was Baalís altar torn down, with the Asherah pole cut down beside it and the second bull offered up on the newly built altar.

And that night God did so. Only the fleece was dry, and dew covered the ground.