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TWOT Reference: 1887b
commandment
commandment (of man)
the commandment (of God)
commandment (of code of wisdom)
Strong's Number H4687 matches the Hebrew מִצְוָה (miṣvâ),
which occurs 181 times in 177 verses
in the WLC Hebrew.
Page 2 / 4 (Deu 27:1–2Ch 29:15)
Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, “Keep every command I am giving you today.
“Obey the LORD your God and follow his commands and statutes I am giving you today.”
“Now if you faithfully obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all his commands I am giving you today, the LORD your God will put you far above all the nations of the earth.
“The LORD will establish you as his holy people, as he swore to you, if you obey the commands of the LORD your God and walk in his ways.
“The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward if you listen to the LORD your God’s commands I am giving you today and are careful to follow them.
“But if you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all his commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake you:
“All these curses will come, pursue, and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commands and statutes he gave you.
“when you obey the LORD your God by keeping his commands and statutes that are written in this book of the law and return to him with all your heart and all your soul.
“This command that I give you today is certainly not too difficult or beyond your reach.
“The LORD will deliver them over to you, and you must do to them exactly as I have commanded you.
“You have not deserted your brothers even once this whole time but have carried out the requirement of the command of the LORD your God.
“Only carefully obey the command and instruction that Moses the LORD’s servant gave you: to love the LORD your God, walk in all his ways, keep his commands, be loyal to him, and serve him with all your heart and all your soul.”
but they did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods, bowing down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their ancestors, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commands. They did not do as their ancestors did.
The LORD left them to test Israel, to determine if they would keep the LORD’s commands he had given their ancestors through Moses.
Samuel said to Saul, “You have been foolish. You have not kept the command the LORD your God gave you. It was at this time that the LORD would have permanently established your reign over Israel,
“and keep your obligation to the LORD your God to walk in his ways and to keep his statutes, commands, ordinances, and decrees. This is written in the law of Moses, so that you will have success in everything you do and wherever you turn,
“If you walk in my ways and keep my statutes and commands just as your father David did, I will give you a long life.”
“As for this temple you are building — if you walk in my statutes, observe my ordinances, and keep all my commands by walking in them, I will fulfill my promise to you, which I made to your father David.
“so that he causes us to be devoted[fn] to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commands, statutes, and ordinances, which he commanded our ancestors.
“Be wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD our God to walk in his statutes and to keep his commands, as it is today.”
If you or your sons turn away from following me and do not keep my commands — my statutes that I have set before you — and if you go and serve other gods and bow in worship to them,
“ ‘However, I will not take the whole kingdom from him but will let him be ruler all the days of his life for the sake of my servant David, whom I chose and who kept my commands and my statutes.
“ ‘After that, if you obey all I command you, walk in my ways, and do what is right in my sight in order to keep my statutes and my commands as my servant David did, I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give you Israel.
and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you rebelled against the LORD’s command and did not keep the command that the LORD your God commanded you —
“tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you. But you were not like my servant David, who kept my commands and followed me with all his heart, doing only what is right in my sight.
He replied, “I have not ruined Israel, but you and your father’s family have, because you have abandoned the LORD’s commands and followed the Baals.
Still, the LORD warned Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commands and statutes according to the whole law I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through my servants the prophets.”
They abandoned all the commands of the LORD their God. They made cast images for themselves, two calves, and an Asherah pole. They bowed in worship to all the stars in the sky and served Baal.
Even Judah did not keep the commands of the LORD their God but lived according to the customs Israel had practiced.
They are still observing the former practices to this day. None of them fear the LORD or observe the statutes and ordinances, the law and commandments that the LORD had commanded the descendants of Jacob, whom he had given the name Israel.
“You are to be careful always to observe the statutes, the ordinances, the law, and the commandments he wrote for you; do not fear other gods.
He remained faithful to the LORD and did not turn from following him but kept the commands the LORD had commanded Moses.
But the people kept silent; they did not answer him at all, for the king’s command was, “Don’t answer him.”
Next, the king stood by the pillar[fn] and made a covenant in the LORD’s presence to follow the LORD and to keep his commands, his decrees, and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul in order to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book; all the people agreed to[fn] the covenant.
“I will establish his kingdom forever if he perseveres in keeping my commands and my ordinances as he is doing today.’
“So now in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, observe and follow all the commands of the LORD your God so that you may possess this good land and leave it as an inheritance to your descendants forever.
Give my son Solomon an undivided heart to keep and to carry out all your commands, your decrees, and your statutes, and to build the building for which I have made provision.
However, if you turn away and abandon my statutes and my commands that I have set before you and if you go and serve other gods and bow in worship to them,
He followed the daily requirement for offerings according to the commandment of Moses for Sabbaths, New Moons, and the three annual appointed festivals: the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters.
According to the ordinances of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests over their service, of the Levites over their responsibilities to offer praise and to minister before the priests following the daily requirement, and of the gatekeepers by their divisions with respect to each temple gate, for this had been the command of David, the man of God.
They did not turn aside from the king’s command regarding the priests and the Levites concerning any matter or concerning the treasuries.
He told the people of Judah to seek the LORD God of their ancestors and to carry out the instruction and the commands.
but sought the God of his father and walked by his commands, not according to the practices of Israel.
“For every dispute that comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities — whether it regards differences of bloodguilt, law, commandment, statutes, or judgments — you are to warn them, so they will not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath will not come on you and your brothers. Do this, and you will not incur guilt.
The Spirit of God enveloped[fn] Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood above the people and said to them, “This is what God says, ‘Why are you transgressing the LORD’s commands so that you do not prosper? Because you have abandoned the LORD, he has abandoned you.’ ”
But they conspired against him and stoned him at the king’s command in the courtyard of the LORD’s temple.
2. Deu 27:1–2Ch 29:15
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