TOPICAL BIBLE
Government
826 references in this topic.
Deuteronomy 26:17Jehovah thou hast caused to promise to-day to become thy God, and to walk in His ways, and to keep His statutes, and His commands, and His judgments, and to hearken to His voice.Deuteronomy 26:18‘And Jehovah hath caused thee to promise to-day to become His people, a peculiar treasure, as He hath spoken to thee, and to keep all His commands;Deuteronomy 26:19so as to make thee uppermost above all the nations whom He hath made for a praise, and for a name, and for beauty, and for thy being a holy people to Jehovah thy God, as He hath spoken.Deuteronomy 27:1‘And Moses—the elders of Israel also—commandeth the people, saying, Keep all the command which I am commanding you to-day;Deuteronomy 29:1These are the words of the covenant which Jehovah hath commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, apart from the covenant which He made with them in Horeb.Deuteronomy 29:2And Moses calleth unto all Israel, and saith unto them, ‘Ye—ye have seen all that which Jehovah hath done before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;Deuteronomy 29:3the great trials which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders;Deuteronomy 29:4and Jehovah hath not given to you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, till this day,Deuteronomy 29:5and I cause you to go forty years in a wilderness; your garments have not been consumed from off you, and thy shoe hath not worn away from off thy foot;Deuteronomy 29:6bread ye have not eaten, and wine and strong drink ye have not drunk, so that ye know that I am Jehovah your God.Deuteronomy 29:7‘And ye come in unto this place, and Sihon king of Heshbon—also Og king of Bashan—doth come out to meet us, to battle, and we smite them,Deuteronomy 29:8and take their land, and give it for an inheritance to the Reubenite, and to the Gadite, and to the half of the tribe of Manasseh;Deuteronomy 29:9and ye have kept the words of this covenant, and done them, so that ye cause all that ye do to prosper.Deuteronomy 29:10‘Ye are standing to-day, all of you, before Jehovah your God—your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your authorities—every man of Israel;Deuteronomy 29:11your infants, your wives, and thy sojourner who is in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water—Deuteronomy 29:12for thy passing over into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into His oath which Jehovah thy God is making with thee to-day;Deuteronomy 29:13in order to establish thee to-day to Him for a people, and He Himself is thy God, as He hath spoken to thee, and as He hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.Deuteronomy 29:14‘And not with you alone am I making this covenant and this oath;Deuteronomy 29:15but with him who is here with us, standing to-day before Jehovah our God, and with him who is not here with us to-day,Deuteronomy 31:9And Moses writeth this law, and giveth it unto the priests (sons of Levi, those bearing the ark of the covenant of Jehovah), and unto all the elders of Israel,Deuteronomy 31:28‘Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your authorities, and I speak in their ears these words, and cause to testify against them the heavens and the earth,Joshua 7:6And Joshua rendeth his garments, and falleth on his face to the earth before the ark of Jehovah till the evening, he and the elders of Israel, and they cause dust to go up on their head.Joshua 8:10And Joshua riseth early in the morning, and inspecteth the people, and goeth up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai;Joshua 8:32and he writeth there on the stones the copy of the law of Moses, which he hath written in the presence of the sons of Israel.Joshua 8:33And all Israel, and its elders, and authorities, and its judges, are standing on this side and on that of the ark, over-against the priests, the Levites, bearing the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, as well the sojourner as the native, half of them over-against mount Gerizim, and the half of them over-against mount Ebal, as Moses servant of Jehovah commanded to bless the people of Israel at the first.Joshua 9:11And our elders, and all the inhabitants of our land speak unto us, saying, Take in your hand provision for the way, and go to meet them, and ye have said unto them, Your servants we are, and now, make with us a covenant;Joshua 9:15and Joshua maketh with them peace, and maketh with them a covenant, to keep them alive; and swear to them do the princes of the company.Joshua 9:16And it cometh to pass, at the end of three days after that they have made with them a covenant, that they hear that they are their neighbours—that in their midst they are dwelling.Joshua 9:17And the sons of Israel journey and come in unto their cities on the third day—and their cities are Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-Jearim—Joshua 9:18and the sons of Israel have not smitten them, for sworn to them have the princes of the company by Jehovah God of Israel, and all the company murmur against the princes.Joshua 9:19And all the princes say unto all the company, ‘We—we have sworn to them by Jehovah, God of Israel; and now, we are not able to come against them;Joshua 9:20this we do to them, and have kept them alive, and wrath is not upon us, because of the oath which we have sworn to them.’Joshua 9:21And the princes say unto them, ‘They live, and are hewers of wood and drawers of water for all the company, as the princes spake to them.’Joshua 11:10And Joshua turneth back at that time, and captureth Hazor, and its king he hath smitten by the sword; for Hazor formerly is head of all these kingdoms;Joshua 17:4and they draw near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, ‘Jehovah commanded Moses to give to us an inheritance in the midst of our brethren;’ and he giveth to them, at the command of Jehovah, an inheritance in the midst of the brethren of their father.Joshua 20:4When one hath fled unto one of these cities, and hath stood at the opening of the gate of the city, and hath spoken in the ears of the elders of that city his matter, then they have gathered him into the city unto them, and have given to him a place, and he hath dwelt with them.Joshua 22:13and the sons of Israel send unto the sons of Reuben, and unto the sons of Gad, and unto the half of the tribe of Manasseh—unto the land of Gilead—Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest,Joshua 22:14and ten princes with him, one prince, one prince, for a house of a father, for all the tribes of Israel, and each of them a head of a house of their fathers, for the thousands of Israel.Joshua 22:15And they come in unto the sons of Reuben, and unto the sons of Gad, and unto the half of the tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and speak with them, saying,Joshua 22:16Thus said all the company of Jehovah, What is this trespass which ye have trespassed against the God of Israel, to turn back to-day from after Jehovah, by your building for you an altar, for your rebelling to-day against Jehovah?Joshua 22:17Is the iniquity of Peor little to us, from which we have not been cleansed till this day—and the plague is in the company of Jehovah,Joshua 22:18that ye turn back to-day from after Jehovah? and it hath been—ye rebel to-day against Jehovah—and to-morrow against all the company of Israel He is wroth.Joshua 22:19‘And surely, if the land of your possession is unclean, pass over for you unto the land of the possession of Jehovah, where the tabernacle of Jehovah hath tabernacled, and have possession in our midst; and against Jehovah rebel not, and against us rebel not, by your building for you an altar, besides the altar of Jehovah our God.Joshua 22:20Did not Achan son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and on all the company of Israel there was wrath? and he alone expired not in his iniquity.’Joshua 22:21And the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the half of the tribe of Manasseh, answer and speak with the heads of the thousands of Israel:Joshua 22:22‘The God of gods—Jehovah, the God of gods—Jehovah, He is knowing, and Israel, he doth know, if in rebellion, and if in trespass against Jehovah (Thou dost not save us this day!)Joshua 22:23we are building for ourselves an altar to turn back from after Jehovah, and if to cause to go up on it burnt-offering and present, and if to make on it peace-offerings—Jehovah Himself doth require it.Joshua 22:24And if not, from fear of this thing we have done it, saying, Hereafter your sons do speak to ours sons, saying, What to you and to Jehovah God of Israel?Joshua 22:25for a border hath Jehovah put between us and you, O sons of Reuben, and sons of Gad—Jordan; ye have no portion in Jehovah—and your sons have caused our sons to cease, not to fear Jehovah.Joshua 22:26‘And we say, Pray let us prepare for ourselves to build the altar—not for burnt-offering nor for sacrifice—Joshua 22:27but a witness it is between us and you, and between our generations after us, to do the service of Jehovah before Him with our burnt-offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace-offerings, and your sons do not say hereafter to our sons, Ye have no portion in Jehovah.Joshua 22:28And we say, And it hath been, when they say so unto us, and unto our generations hereafter, that we have said, See the pattern of the altar of Jehovah, which our fathers made—not for burnt-offering nor for sacrifice—but a witness it is between us and you.Joshua 22:29Far be it from us to rebel against Jehovah, and to turn back to-day from after Jehovah, to build an altar for burnt-offering, for present, and for sacrifice, apart from the altar of Jehovah our God, which is before His tabernacle.’Joshua 22:30And Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the company, and the heads of the thousands of Israel, who are with him, hear the words which the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the sons of Manasseh have spoken, and it is good in their eyes.Joshua 22:31And Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest saith unto the sons of Reuben, and unto the sons of Gad, and unto the sons of Manasseh, ‘To-day we have known that Jehovah is in our midst, because ye have not committed against Jehovah this trespass—then ye have delivered the sons of Israel out of the hand of Jehovah.’Joshua 22:32And Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, turn back from the sons of Reuben, and from the sons of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, unto the sons of Israel, and bring them back word;Joshua 23:2and Joshua calleth for all Israel, for its elders, and for its heads, and for its judges, and for its authorities, and saith unto them, ‘I have become old; I have entered into days;Joshua 23:3and ye—ye have seen all that Jehovah your God hath done to all these nations because of you, for Jehovah your God is He who is fighting for you;Joshua 23:6and ye have been very strong to keep and to do the whole that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, so as not to turn aside from it right or left,Joshua 24:1And Joshua gathereth all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and calleth for the elders of Israel, and for its heads, and for its judges, and for its authorities, and they station themselves before God.