Nave’s Topical Bible
Covenant
114 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Sacred
- Binding
Joshua 9:18-20; Jeremiah 34:8-21; Ezekiel 17:14-18; Galatians 3:15
- Binding, not only on those who make them, but on those who are Represented
- Blood of
- Book of
- The Mosaic law called a covenant
See CONTRACTS
See VOWS
- OF MEN WITH MEN
- INSTANCES OF
- Abraham and Abimelech
- Abimelech and Isaac
- Jacob and Laban
- Jonathan and David
- Jews with each other, to serve God
- King Zedekiah and his subjects
- Ahab with Benhadad
- Subjects with sovereign
- OF GOD WITH MEN
- Confirmed with an oath
Genesis 22:16; Genesis 26:3; Genesis 50:24; Psalms 89:35; Psalms 105:9; Luke 1:73; Hebrews 6:13,17-18
- Binding
- Everlasting
Genesis 8:20-22; Genesis 9:1-17; Psalms 105:8,10; Isaiah 54:10; Isaiah 61:8
- God faithful to
Leviticus 26:44-45; Deuteronomy 4:31; Deuteronomy 7:8-9; Judges 2:1; 1 Kings 8:23; Psalms 105:8-11; Psalms 106:45; Psalms 111:5; Micah 7:20
- Repudiated by God on account of Jews' idolatry
- Broken by the Jews
- Punishments for breaking of
- Confirmed with an oath
- INSTANCES OF
- Of the sabbath
- Of the Ten Commandments
- With Adam
- Noah
- Abraham
Genesis 12:1-3; Genesis 15; Genesis 17:1-22; Exodus 6:4-8; Psalms 105:8-11; Romans 9:7-13; Galatians 3
See CIRCUMCISION
- With Isaac
- Jacob
- With the Israelites to deliver them from Egypt
- With Phinehas
- With Israel, at Horeb
- In Moab
- Of the Levites
- With David
- With David and his house
- With his people
- To be confirmed
- THE SECOND COVENANT
Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hebrews 8:4-13; Hebrews 12:18-24; Hebrews 13:20
- OF MAN WITH GOD
- Jacob
- Joshua
- Absalom
- Jehoiada and Joash
- Josiah
- Asa
- Nehemiah
- Israelites
See VOWS
Bible verses about “Covenant”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Joshua 9:18And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.
- Joshua 9:19But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.
- Joshua 9:20This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
- Joshua 9:21And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.
- Galatians 3:15Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
- Jeremiah 34:8This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;
- Jeremiah 34:9That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.
- Jeremiah 34:10Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.
- Jeremiah 34:11But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
- Jeremiah 34:12Therefore the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
- Jeremiah 34:13Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
- Jeremiah 34:14At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.
- Jeremiah 34:15And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
- Jeremiah 34:16But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
- Jeremiah 34:17Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Jeremiah 34:18And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,
- Jeremiah 34:19The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;
- Jeremiah 34:20I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
- Jeremiah 34:21And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army, which are gone up from you.
- Ezekiel 17:14That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
- Ezekiel 17:15But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?
- Ezekiel 17:16As I live, saith the Lord God, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
- Ezekiel 17:17Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:
- Ezekiel 17:18Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.
- Deuteronomy 29:14Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
- Deuteronomy 29:15But with him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
- Exodus 24:8And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.
- Exodus 24:7And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.
- Exodus 34:28And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
- 2 Samuel 21:1Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
- 2 Samuel 21:2And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
- 2 Samuel 21:3Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the Lord?
- 2 Samuel 21:4And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.
- 2 Samuel 21:5And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
- 2 Samuel 21:6Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, whom the Lord did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
- Jeremiah 34:22Behold, I will command, saith the Lord, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
- Ezekiel 17:13And hath taken of the king’s seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:
- Ezekiel 17:19Therefore thus saith the Lord God; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.
- Ezra 10:19And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.
- Lamentations 5:6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.