Deuteronomy 31:26

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“Take this scroll of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God. It will remain there as a witness against you,

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 31:19 : 19 Now write down for yourselves the following song and teach it to the Israelites. Put it into their very mouths so that this song may serve as my witness against the Israelites!
  • 1 Kgs 8:9 : 9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. It was there that the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
  • 2 Kgs 22:8-9 : 8 Hilkiah the high priest informed Shaphan the scribe,“I found the law scroll in the LORD’s temple.” Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan and he read it. 9 Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported,“Your servants melted down the silver in the temple and handed it over to the construction foremen assigned to the LORD’s temple.” 10 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king,“Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.” Shaphan read it out loud before the king. 11 When the king heard the words of the law scroll, he tore his clothes.
  • 2 Kgs 22:13-19 : 13 “Go, seek an oracle from the LORD for me and the people– for all Judah. Find out about the words of this scroll that has been discovered. For the LORD’s great fury has been ignited against us, because our ancestors have not obeyed the words of this scroll by doing all that it instructs us to do.” 14 So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shullam son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the supervisor of the wardrobe.(She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh district.) They stated their business, 15 and she said to them:“This is what the LORD God of Israel has said:‘Say this to the man who sent you to me: 16 “This is what the LORD has said:‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, all the things in the scroll which the king of Judah has read. 17 This will happen because they have abandoned me and offered sacrifices to other gods, angering me with all the idols they have made. My anger will ignite against this place and will not be extinguished!’” 18 Say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to seek an oracle from the LORD:“This is what the LORD God of Israel has said concerning the words you have heard: 19 ‘You displayed a sensitive spirit and humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard how I intended to make this place and its residents into an appalling example of an accursed people. You tore your clothes and wept before me, and I have heard you,’ says the LORD.
  • 2 Chr 34:14-15 : 14 When they took out the silver that had been brought to the LORD’s temple, Hilkiah the priest found the law scroll the LORD had given to Moses. 15 Hilkiah informed Shaphan the scribe,“I found the law scroll in the LORD’s temple.” Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan.
  • Rom 3:19-20 : 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 20 For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Gal 2:19 : 19 For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 31:24-25
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    82%

    24 Anticipation of Disobedience When Moses finished writing on a scroll the words of this law in their entirety,

    25 he commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the LORD’s covenant,

  • Exod 25:16
    78%

    16 You are to put into the ark the testimony that I will give to you.

  • Deut 31:27-29
    3 verses
    77%

    27 for I know about your rebellion and stubbornness. Indeed, even while I have been living among you to this very day, you have rebelled against the LORD; you will be even more rebellious after my death!

    28 Gather to me all your tribal elders and officials so I can speak to them directly about these things and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them.

    29 For I know that after I die you will totally corrupt yourselves and turn away from the path I have commanded you to walk. Disaster will confront you in the days to come because you will act wickedly before the LORD, inciting him to anger because of your actions.”

  • Deut 31:19
    76%

    19 Now write down for yourselves the following song and teach it to the Israelites. Put it into their very mouths so that this song may serve as my witness against the Israelites!

  • Josh 24:26-27
    2 verses
    75%

    26 Joshua wrote these words in the Law Scroll of God. He then took a large stone and set it up there under the oak tree near the LORD’s shrine.

    27 Joshua said to all the people,“Look, this stone will be a witness against us, for it has heard everything the LORD said to us. It will be a witness against you if you deny your God.”

  • Deut 31:9
    74%

    9 The Deposit of the Covenant Text Then Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the Levitical priests, who carry the ark of the LORD’s covenant, and to all Israel’s elders.

  • Deut 32:46-47
    2 verses
    74%

    46 he said to them,“Keep in mind all the words I am solemnly proclaiming to you today; you must command your children to observe carefully all the words of this law.

    47 For this is no idle word for you– it is your life! By this word you will live a long time in the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.”

  • Deut 27:8
    74%

    8 You must inscribe on the stones all the words of this law, making them clear.”

  • Deut 11:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17 Then the anger of the LORD will erupt against you and he will close up the sky so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed from the good land that the LORD is about to give you.

    18 Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols on your forehead.

  • Deut 6:17
    73%

    17 Keep his commandments very carefully, as well as the stipulations and statutes he commanded you to observe.

  • Exod 25:21
    73%

    21 You are to put the atonement lid on top of the ark, and in the ark you are to put the testimony I am giving you.

  • Josh 8:32
    73%

    32 There, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua inscribed on the stones a duplicate of the law written by Moses.

  • Deut 4:26
    72%

    26 I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will surely and swiftly be removed from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be annihilated.

  • Josh 22:27
    72%

    27 but as a reminder to us and you, and to our descendants who follow us, that we will honor the LORD in his very presence with burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace. Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants,‘You have no right to worship the LORD.’

  • Exod 26:34
    72%

    34 You are to put the atonement lid on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy Place.

  • Deut 17:18
    72%

    18 When he sits on his royal throne he must make a copy of this law on a scroll given to him by the Levitical priests.

  • Deut 11:32
    72%

    32 Be certain to keep all the statutes and ordinances that I am presenting to you today.

  • Deut 10:2
    72%

    2 I will write on the tablets the same words that were on the first tablets you broke, and you must put them into the ark.”

  • Josh 23:6
    72%

    6 Be very strong! Carefully obey all that is written in the law scroll of Moses so you won’t swerve from it to the right or the left,

  • Exod 30:6
    72%

    6 “You are to put it in front of the curtain that is before the ark of the testimony(before the atonement lid that is over the testimony), where I will meet you.

  • Exod 16:34
    72%

    34 Just as the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony for safekeeping.

  • Deut 4:23
    72%

    23 Be on guard so that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he has made with you, and that you do not make an image of any kind, just as he has forbidden you.

  • Deut 5:31
    71%

    31 But as for you, remain here with me so I can declare to you all the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that you are to teach them, so that they can carry them out in the land I am about to give them.”

  • Exod 34:27
    71%

    27 The LORD said to Moses,“Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

  • Jer 36:2
    71%

    2 “Get a scroll. Write on it everything I have told you to say about Israel, Judah, and all the other nations since I began to speak to you in the reign of Josiah until now.

  • Deut 29:12
    71%

    12 so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the LORD your God is making with you today.

  • Josh 8:34
    71%

    34 Then Joshua read aloud all the words of the law, including the blessings and the curses, just as they are written in the law scroll.

  • Deut 11:26
    71%

    26 Anticipation of a Blessing and Cursing Ceremony Take note– I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:

  • Exod 34:12
    71%

    12 Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare among you.

  • Isa 30:8
    71%

    8 Now go, write it down on a tablet in their presence, inscribe it on a scroll, so that it might be preserved for a future time as an enduring witness.

  • Deut 30:1
    71%

    1 The Results of Covenant Reaffirmation“When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses I have set before you, you will reflect upon them in all the nations where the LORD your God has banished you.

  • Deut 6:6
    71%

    6 Exhortation to Teach the Covenant Principles These words I am commanding you today must be kept in mind,

  • Deut 27:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2 When you cross the Jordan River to the land the LORD your God is giving you, you must erect great stones and cover them with plaster.

    3 Then you must inscribe on them all the words of this law when you cross over, so that you may enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, said to you.

  • Deut 29:1
    71%

    1 Narrative Interlude(28:69) These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.

  • 2 Kgs 17:37
    71%

    37 You must carefully obey at all times the rules, regulations, law, and commandments he wrote down for you. You must not worship other gods.

  • Deut 6:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8 You should tie them as a reminder on your forearm and fasten them as symbols on your forehead.

    9 Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and gates.

  • Exod 40:3
    71%

    3 You are to place the ark of the testimony in it and shield the ark with the special curtain.

  • 2 Chr 6:11
    71%

    11 and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the LORD made with the Israelites.”

  • Exod 40:20
    71%

    20 He took the testimony and put it in the ark, attached the poles to the ark, and then put the atonement lid on the ark.

  • Exod 13:9
    70%

    9 It will be a sign for you on your hand and a memorial on your forehead, so that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.

  • Josh 23:11
    70%

    11 Watch yourselves carefully! Love the LORD your God!

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