So now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the Law.
and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruct
Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel gathered around me because of the unfaithfulness of the exi
For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate w
To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he m
My flesh trembles in awe of You; I stand in fear of Your judgments.
I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.
so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,
“Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for those remaining in Israel and Judah concerning the words in the book that has
In view of all this, we make a binding agreement, putting it in writing and sealing it with the names of our leaders, Le
Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem:
hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His
Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people that they would be the LORD’s people. He also
Moreover, the power of God was on the people in Judah to give them one heart to obey the command of the king and his off
“Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning o
They went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land; plea
Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that His fierce anger will turn away from
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating tha
because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and agains
And they found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to dwell in boot
So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, dec
All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.