In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and brought the commanders of hundreds, the mercenaries and runners, and brought them into the house of Jehovah to him. And he made a covenant with them and took an oath from them in the house of Jehovah, and showed them the king's son.

Jehovah our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

Jehovah did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, all those of us who are alive here today.

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

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

And I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn out on your feet.

And when you came to this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us to battle, and we struck them.

Therefore keep the Words of this covenant, and do them, that you may be wise in all that you do.

your little ones and your wives; and the sojourner who is in your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;

to establish you today as a people for Himself, to be, Himself, your God, just as He has spoken to you, and as He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

but with him who stands here with us today before Jehovah our God, as well as with him who is not here with us today

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and established for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

And they entered into a covenant to seek Jehovah the God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

And they swore unto Jehovah with a loud voice, with shouting and trumpets and shofars.

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

And the king stood in his place and made a covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to do the Words of the covenant that were written in this Book.

Now therefore, let us make a covenant with our God to bring out all these women and those who have been born to them, according to the counsel of the Lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the Law.

So they said, We will restore it, and will require nothing from them; we will do as you say. Then I called the priests, and caused them to swear that they would do according to this word.

I also shook out empty the bosom of my garment and said, So may God shake out each man from his house, and from his property, who does not carry out this word. Even thus may he be shaken out and emptied. And all the assembly said, Amen! and praised Jehovah. Then the people did according to this word.

And because of all this, we are making a covenant in good faith, and writing it; sealed by our rulers, our Levites, and our priests.

Now the rest of the people; the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple slaves, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge and understanding;

these joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law, which was given by the hand of Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Jehovah our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes:

And not only as we had hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and also to us through the will of God.

Then Samuel explained to the people the ordinances of the king's office, and wrote it in a book and set it before Jehovah. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.

So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before Jehovah. And they anointed David king over Israel.

Therefore all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them at Hebron before Jehovah. And they anointed David king over Israel, according to the Word of Jehovah by the hand of Samuel.

And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, the people, and the king, to be the people of Jehovah.

Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are ordained by God.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same.

Therefore it is necessary to be subject, not only because of wrath but also because of conscience.