And in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and took the captains of hundreds-of the bodyguards and the escorts- and brought them to him into the house of the Lord, and made a covenant of the Lord with them, and adjured them, and Jehoiada showed them the king's son.

The Lord your God made a covenant with you in Horeb.

The Lord did not make this covenant with your fathers, but with you: you are all here alive this day.

These [are] the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He made with them in Horeb.

the great temptations which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders.

And He led you forty years in the wilderness; your garments did not grow old, and your sandals were not worn away from off of your feet.

And you came as far as this place; and there came forth Sihon king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, to meet us in war.

And you shall take heed to do all the words of this covenant, that you may understand all things that you shall do.

your wives, and your children, and the stranger who is in the midst of your camp, from your hewer of wood even to your drawer of water,

that He may appoint you to Himself for a people, and He shall be your God, as He has said to you, and as He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

but to those also who are here with you today before the Lord your God, and to those who are not here with you today.

So Joshua made a covenant with the people on that day, and gave them a law and an ordinance in Shiloh before the tabernacle of the God of Israel.

And they entered into a covenant, that they should seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul.

And they swore to the Lord with a loud voice, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

Therefore it is now in my heart to make a covenant, a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that He may turn away His fierce wrath from us.

And the king stood at a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk before the Lord, to keep His commandments and testimonies, and His ordinances, with all [his] heart and with all [his] soul, so as to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

Now then let us make a covenant with our God, to put away all the wives, and their offspring, as you advise:

And they said, We will restore, and we will not exact of them; we will do thus as you say. Then I called the priests, and bound them by oath to do according to this word.

And I shook out my garment, and said, So may God shake out every man who shall not keep to this word, from his house, and from his labors, he shall be even thus shaken out, as an outcast and empty. And all the congregation said, Amen, and they praised the Lord; and the people did this thing.

And in regard to all these circumstances we make a covenant, and write [it], and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests, set their seal to [it].

And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinim, and everyone who drew off from the nations of the land to the law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, everyone who had knowledge and understanding,

were urgent with their brothers, and bound them under a curse, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in the law of God, which was given by the hand of Moses, the servant of God; to keep and to do all the commandments of the Lord, and His judgments, and His ordinances.

and not as we hoped, but they first gave their own selves to the Lord, and then to us by the will of God,

And Samuel told the people the manner of the king, and wrote it in a book, and set it before the Lord. And Samuel sent away all the people, and each went to his place.

And all the elders of Israel come to the king at Hebron; and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the Lord; and they anointed David king over all Israel.

And all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the Lord. And they anointed David to be king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord by Samuel.

And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and the people and the king, that the people should be the Lord's.

Let every soul submit to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except by God, and the authorities that exist are instituted by God.

For rulers are not a fear to good works, but to evil. And do you wish not to fear the authority? Do what is good, and you shall have praise from the same.

Therefore it is necessary to be subject, not only on account of wrath, but also for conscience' sake.