Quotes About Command

Let them praise the name of the LORD, for He gave the command and they were created.

when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.

He who despises instruction will pay the penalty, but the one who respects a command will be rewarded.

For the kingís word is supreme, and who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”

The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.

So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ëGo up against this land and destroy it.í”

who says to the depths of the sea, ëBe dry, and I will dry up your currents,í

Behold, I have made him a witness to the nations, a leader and commander of the peoples.

But the LORD told me: “Do not say, ëI am only a child.í For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak.

Get yourself ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them, or I will terrify you before them.

For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, saying, ëObey My voice.í

So I went and hid it at Perath, as the LORD had commanded me.

Many days later the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to Perath, and get the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”

They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.

So I took the cup from the LORDís hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me,

If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ëYou most certainly must drink it!

“This is what the LORD says: Stand in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and speak all the words I have commanded you to speak to all the cities of Judah who come to worship there. Do not omit a word.

For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the LORD.”

They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I never commanded them, nor had it ever entered My mind, that they should commit such an abomination and cause Judah to sin.

Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

The words of Jonadab son of Rechab have been carried out. He commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this very day because they have obeyed the command of their forefather. But I have spoken to you again and again, and you have not obeyed Me!

Yes, the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab carried out the command their forefather gave them, but these people have not listened to Me.

Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, as well as Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them.