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Lexicon :: Strong's H2706 - ḥōq

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חֹק
Transliteration
ḥōq
Pronunciation
khoke
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 728a

Strong’s Definitions

חֹק chôq, khoke; from H2710; an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage):—appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree(-d), due, law, measure, × necessary, ordinance(-nary), portion, set time, statute, task.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 127x

The KJV translates Strong's H2706 in the following manner: statute (87x), ordinance (9x), decree (7x), due (4x), law (4x), portion (3x), bounds (2x), custom (2x), appointed (1x), commandments (1x), miscellaneous (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 127x
The KJV translates Strong's H2706 in the following manner: statute (87x), ordinance (9x), decree (7x), due (4x), law (4x), portion (3x), bounds (2x), custom (2x), appointed (1x), commandments (1x), miscellaneous (7x).

  1. statute, ordinance, limit, something prescribed, due

    1. prescribed task

    2. prescribed portion

    3. action prescribed (for oneself), resolve

    4. prescribed due

    5. prescribed limit, boundary

    6. enactment, decree, ordinance

      1. specific decree

      2. law in general

    7. enactments, statutes

      1. conditions

      2. enactments

      3. decrees

      4. civil enactments prescribed by God

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חֹק chôq, khoke; from H2710; an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage):—appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree(-d), due, law, measure, × necessary, ordinance(-nary), portion, set time, statute, task.
STRONGS H2706: Abbreviations
חֹק 127 noun masculineMicah 7:11 something prescribed, a statute or due; — ח׳ Genesis 47:22 22 times; חָקֿ Exodus 30:21 14 times; suffix חֻקִּי Proverbs 30:8 3 times; חָקְךָ Leviticus 10:13,14 etc. + 4 times suffixes; plural חֻקִּים Deuteronomy 4:5 31 times; construct חֻקֵּי Exodus 18:16; חוּקֵּ֯י Ezekiel 20:18; also חִקֲקֵי [H2711 Judges 5:15; Isaiah 10:1] (Ges§ 93. 1 R 7); חֻקָּו֯ Job 14:5 etc. + 44 times suffixes —
1. prescribed task, assigned to Israel in Egypt Exodus 5:14 (E).
2. prescribed portion, or allowance of food Genesis 47:22 (twice in verse) (J); Proverbs 30:8; Proverbs 31:15; Ezekiel 16:27; מחקי Job 23:12 (RV; < Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate Ol Me Di SS בְּחֵקִי in my bosom).
3. action prescribed for oneself, resolve: חִקֲקֵי לֵב Judges 5:15 resolves of mind || חִקְרֵי לֵב Judges 5:16.
4. prescribed due of the priests from offerings Leviticus 6:11; Leviticus 10:13 (twice in verse); Leviticus 10:14 (twice in verse) (P); due of י׳ Leviticus 6:15 (P); עולם לח׳ Exodus 29:28; Leviticus 7:34; Leviticus 10:15; Numbers 18:8,11,19 (all P), Leviticus 24:9(H); portion of oil for the תּרומה Ezekiel 45:14.
5. prescribed limit, boundary: of sea Jeremiah 5:22; Proverbs 8:29; Job 26:10; Job 38:10; of heavens Psalm 148:6; of land of Israel Micah 7:11; of time Job 14:5,13; so מָּֽעֲרָה פִיהָ לִבְלִי חֹ֑ק Isaiah 5:14 She'ôl openeth wide her mouth, without limit.
6. enactment, decree, ordinance of either God or man:
a. specific decree: law of fifth in Egypt Genesis 47:26 (J); of passover Exodus 12:24 (J); lament for Jephthah's daughter Judges 11:39; for Josiah 2 Chronicles 35:25; חק ומשׁפט Exodus 15:25; Joshua 24:25 (both E), 1 Samuel 30:25; חק עולם Exodus 30:21; || עֵדוּת, מִשְׁמָּט Psalm 81:5; Psalm 81:6 (law of a festival).
b. of י׳ in nature Job 28:26.
c. respecting Messianic king Psalm 2:7; day of י׳ Zephaniah 2:2 MT, but on text see We and טֶרֶם, below; covenant with Jacob Psalm 105:10 ＝1 Chronicles 16:17; destiny of man Job 23:14.
d. law in general עלי חק according to law, right Psalm 94:20 (others against law); ומשׁפט לַמֵּד ח׳ Ezra 7:10; || בּרית and תורות Isaiah 24:5; || עדות Psalm 99:7.
7. plural חֻקִּים enactments, statutes of a law:
a. of י׳ in nature Jeremiah 31:36.
b. of the prophets Zechariah 1:6.
c. conditions of deed of purchase Jeremiah 32:11.
d. enactments || מִשְׁמָּטִים : ancestral Ezekiel 20:18; given by God as punishment for disobedience Ezekiel 20:25.
e. decrees of unjust judges חִקֲקֵיאָֿוֶן Isaiah 10:1.
f. civil enactments prescribed by God: חֻקֵּי האלהים Exodus 18:16 (E; || תּוֺרֹתָיו), Exodus 18:20 (E; || id.)
g. elsewhere of prescriptions of the several codes of Hex: Leviticus 10:11; Numbers 30:17 (P), Deuteronomy 4:6; Deuteronomy 6:24; Deuteronomy 16:12; Psalm 119:5 20 times, Malachi 3:7; || תּוֺרַת י׳ Amos 2:4; ותורות ח׳ Psalm 105:45; והח׳ דברי הת׳ Deuteronomy 17:19; || ברית Psalm 50:16; וברית ועדות ח׳ 2 Kings 17:15; usually either || משׁפטים Deuteronomy 4:1,5,8,14; Deuteronomy 5:1; Deuteronomy 11:32; Deuteronomy 12:1; Deuteronomy 26:16; 1 Kings 9:4 2 Chronicles 7:17; 1 Chronicles 22:13; Ezekiel 11:12; Ezekiel 36:27, or else ומשׁפטים ח׳ combined with other synonym (usually preceding): e.g. דבר(ים ׅ Psalm 147:19; תורה 2 Chronicles 33:8; Malachi 3:22; מצוה Deuteronomy 5:28; Deuteronomy 6:1; Deuteronomy 7:11; מצות Nehemiah 1:7; 1 Kings 8:58; מצוה, תורה 2 Chronicles 19:10; עֵדֹת Deuteronomy 4:45; Deuteronomy 6:20; sometimes following: e.g. תורות Leviticus 26:46; מצוה, תורה 2 Kings 17:37; or in different order, e.g. ותורות מ׳ ומצות ח׳ Nehemiah 9:13; וח׳ מצות ומ׳ Nehemiah 10:30; ומצות ח׳ ומ׳ Deuteronomy 26:17. Apart from משׁפטים it is combined with מצות, e.g. וח׳ מ׳ Exodus 15:26 (R), Deuteronomy 27:10; ומ׳ ח׳ Deuteronomy 4:40; 1 Kings 3:14; 1 Kings 8:61; ותורה וח׳ מ׳ Nehemiah 9:14; ועדות וח׳ מ׳ Deuteronomy 6:17; 1 Chronicles 29:19; 2 Chronicles 34:31; וח׳ דברי מ׳ Ezra 7:11; it is used with verbs: נתן Leviticus 26:46 3 times; צוּה Numbers 30:17 9 times; למּד Deuteronomy 4:1 10 times; שׁמר Deuteronomy 26:17 16 times; עשׂה Deuteronomy 6:24 5 times; שׁמר לעשׂות Deuteronomy 11:32 4 times; הלך בְּ 1 Kings 8:61 3 times — [On usage of חֹק see חֻקָּה near the end]
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

47:22; 47:22; 47:26

Exodus

5:14; 12:24; 15:25; 15:26; 18:16; 18:16; 18:20; 29:28; 30:21; 30:21

Leviticus

6:11; 6:15; 7:34; 10:11; 10:13; 10:13; 10:14; 10:14; 10:15; 24:9; 26:46; 26:46

Numbers

18:8; 18:11; 18:19

Deuteronomy

4:1; 4:1; 4:5; 4:5; 4:6; 4:8; 4:14; 4:40; 4:45; 5:1; 5:28; 6:1; 6:17; 6:20; 6:24; 6:24; 7:11; 11:32; 11:32; 12:1; 16:12; 17:19; 26:16; 26:17; 26:17; 27:10

Joshua

24:25

Judges

5:15; 5:16; 11:39

1 Samuel

30:25

1 Kings

3:14; 8:58; 8:61; 8:61; 9:4

2 Kings

17:15; 17:37

1 Chronicles

16:17; 22:13; 29:19

2 Chronicles

7:17; 19:10; 33:8; 34:31; 35:25

Ezra

7:10; 7:11

Nehemiah

1:7; 9:13; 9:14; 10:30

Job

14:5; 14:5; 14:13; 23:12; 23:14; 26:10; 28:26; 38:10

Psalms

2:7; 50:16; 81:5; 81:6; 94:20; 99:7; 105:10; 105:45; 119:5; 147:19; 148:6

Proverbs

8:29; 30:8; 30:8; 31:15

Isaiah

5:14; 10:1; 24:5

Jeremiah

5:22; 31:36; 32:11

Ezekiel

11:12; 16:27; 20:18; 20:18; 20:25; 36:27; 45:14

Amos

2:4

Micah

7:11; 7:11

Zephaniah

2:2

Zechariah

1:6

Malachi

3:7

H2706

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Strong's Number H2706 matches the Hebrew חֹק (ḥōq),
which occurs 128 times in 124 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 47:22–1Ki 8:61)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:22 - Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had an allotment H2706 from Pharaoh, and they ate off the allotment H2706 which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore, they did not sell their land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:26 - And Joseph made it a statute H2706 concerning the land of Egypt valid to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the priests [fn]did not become Pharaoh’s.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:14 - Moreover, the foremen of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten [fn]and were asked, “Why have you not completed your required H2706 amount H2706 either yesterday or today in making brick as previously?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:24 - “And you shall keep this event as a statute H2706 for you and your children forever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:25 - Then he cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh showed him a tree; and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet.

There He set for them a statute H2706 and a judgment, and there He tested them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:26 - And He said, “If you will earnestly listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes H2706, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, Yahweh, am your healer.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:16 - “When they have a matter, it comes to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor and make known the statutes H2706 of God and His laws.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:20 - then warn them about the statutes H2706 and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they shall go and the work they shall do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:28 - “It shall be for Aaron and his sons as a perpetual statute H2706 from the sons of Israel, for it is a [fn]contribution offering; and it shall be a [fn]contribution offering from the sons of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their [fn]contribution offering to Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:21 - “So they shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they will not die; and it shall be a perpetual statute H2706 for them, for [fn]Aaron and his seed throughout their generations.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:18 - ‘Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it; it is a perpetual statute H2706 throughout your generations, from the offerings by fire to Yahweh. Whoever touches them will be set apart as holy.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:22 - “And the anointed priest, who will be in his place [fn]among his sons, shall [fn]offer it. By a perpetual statute H2706 it shall be entirely offered up in smoke to Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:34 - ‘For I have taken the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the [fn]contribution from the sons of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as a perpetual statute H2706 taken from the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:11 - and so as to instruct the sons of Israel in all the statutes H2706 which Yahweh has spoken to them through Moses.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:13 - “And you shall eat it in a holy place because it is a statute H2706 for you and a statute H2706 for your sons taken out of the offerings of Yahweh by fire; for thus I have been commanded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:14 - “The breast of the wave offering, however, and the thigh of the [fn]contribution offering you may eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you; for they have been given as a statute H2706 for you and a statute H2706 for your sons taken out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:15 - “The thigh contributed by [fn]raising up and the breast offered by waving they shall bring along with the offerings by fire of the portions of fat, to wave as a wave offering before Yahweh; so it shall be a perpetual statute H2706 for you and your sons with you, just as Yahweh has commanded.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:9 - “And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the offerings to Yahweh by fire, his portion H2706 forever.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:46 -

These are the statutes H2706 and judgments and laws which Yahweh has given to be between Himself and the sons of Israel by the hand of Moses at Mount Sinai.

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Then Yahweh spoke to Aaron, “Now behold, I Myself have given you the responsibility of My [fn]contributions, even all the holy gifts of the sons of Israel I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual statute H2706.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:11 - “This also is yours, the contribution from their gift, even all the wave offerings of the sons of Israel; I have given them to you and to your sons and daughters with you as a perpetual statute H2706. Everyone of your household who is clean may eat it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:19 - “All the contributions of the holy gifts, which the sons of Israel raise up to Yahweh, I have given to you and your sons and your daughters with you, as a perpetual statute H2706. It is an everlasting covenant of salt before Yahweh to you and your seed with you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:16 -

These are the statutes H2706 which Yahweh commanded Moses, as between a man and his wife, and as between a father and his daughter, while she is in her youth in her father’s house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:1 -

“So now, O Israel, listen to the statutes H2706 and the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that you may live and go in and take possession of the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:5 -

“See, I have taught you statutes H2706 and judgments just as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do thus in the land where you are entering to possess it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:6 - “You shall keep and do them, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes H2706 and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:8 - “Or what great nation is there that has statutes H2706 and judgments as righteous as this whole law which I am setting before you today?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:14 - “And Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes H2706 and judgments, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:40 - “So you shall keep His statutes H2706 and His commandments which I am commanding you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days on the land which Yahweh your God is giving you for all the days.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:45

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:45 - these are the testimonies and the statutes H2706 and the judgments which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel when they came out from Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:1 -

Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them:

“Hear, O Israel, the statutes H2706 and the judgments which I am speaking today in your [fn]hearing, that you may learn them and be careful to do them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:31

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:31 - ‘But as for you, stand here by Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments and the statutes H2706 and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.’

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“Now this is the commandment, the statutes H2706 and the judgments, which Yahweh your God has commanded me to teach you, that you might do it in the land where you are going over to possess it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:17 - “You should diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God and His testimonies and His statutes H2706 which He has commanded you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:20 -

“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What do the testimonies and the statutes H2706 and the judgments mean which Yahweh our God commanded you?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:24 - “So Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes H2706, to fear Yahweh our God for our good all our days and for our survival, as it is today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:11 - “Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes H2706 and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:32 - and you shall be careful to do all the statutes H2706 and the judgments which I am setting before you today.

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“These are the statutes H2706 and the judgments which you shall be careful to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days you live on the [fn]earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:12 - “And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes H2706.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:19 - “And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, [fn]to carefully observe all the words of this law and these statutes H2706,

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“This day Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes H2706 and judgments. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:17 - “You have today declared Yahweh to be your God, and [fn]that you would walk in His ways and keep His statutes H2706, His commandments, and His judgments, and listen to His voice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:10 - “You shall therefore listen to the voice of Yahweh your God and do His commandments and His statutes H2706 which I am commanding you today.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:25 - So Joshua cut a covenant with the people that day and made for them a statute H2706 and a judgment in Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:39 - And it happened at the end of two months that she returned to her father, and he did to her according to the vow which he had made; and she did not know a man. Thus it became a [fn]custom H2706 in Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 30:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:25 - So it has been from that day forward, that he made it a statute H2706 and a judgment for Israel to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:14 - “Now if you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes H2706 and commandments, as your father David walked, then I will prolong your days.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:58

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:58 - that He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes H2706 and His judgments, which He commanded our fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:61 - “Let your heart therefore be [fn]wholly devoted to Yahweh our God, to walk in His statutes H2706 and to keep His commandments, as at this day.”

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