Verse 1

The Central Sanctuary These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 8:40 : 40 Then they will obey you throughout their lifetimes as they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.
  • Job 7:1 : 1 The Brevity of Life“Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?
  • Ps 104:33 : 33 I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God as long as I exist!
  • Ps 146:2 : 2 I will praise the LORD as long as I live! I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist!
  • Deut 4:1-2 : 1 The Privileges of the Covenant Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. 2 Do not add a thing to what I command you nor subtract from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am delivering to you.
  • Deut 4:5 : 5 Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in the land you are about to enter and possess.
  • Deut 4:9-9 : 9 Reminder of the Horeb Covenant Again, however, pay very careful attention, lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren. 10 You stood before the LORD your God at Horeb and he said to me,“Assemble the people before me so that I can tell them my commands. Then they will learn to revere me all the days they live in the land, and they will instruct their children.”
  • Deut 4:19 : 19 When you look up to the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars– the whole heavenly creation– you must not be seduced to worship and serve them, for the LORD your God has assigned them to all the people of the world.
  • Deut 4:45 : 45 These are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that Moses spoke to the Israelites after he had brought them out of Egypt,
  • Deut 6:1-2 : 1 Exhortation to Keep the Covenant Principles Now these are the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that the LORD your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headed 2 and that you may so revere the LORD your God that you will keep all his statutes and commandments that I am giving you– you, your children, and your grandchildren– all your lives, to prolong your days.
  • Deut 12:19 : 19 Be careful not to overlook the Levites as long as you live in the land.