Verse 12

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

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 15:12-15 : 12 They solemnly agreed to seek the LORD God of their ancestors with their whole heart and being. 13 Anyone who would not seek the LORD God of Israel would be executed, whether they were young or old, male or female. 14 They swore their allegiance to the LORD, shouting their approval loudly and sounding trumpets and horns. 15 All Judah was happy about the oath, because they made the vow with their whole heart. They willingly sought the LORD and he responded to them. He made them secure on every side.
  • Neh 10:28-29 : 28 “Now the rest of the people– the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple attendants, and all those who have separated themselves from the neighboring peoples because of the law of God, along with their wives, their sons, and their daughters, all of whom are able to understand– 29 hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders and enter into a curse and an oath to adhere to the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey carefully all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, along with his ordinances and his statutes.
  • Exod 19:5-6 : 5 And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine, 6 and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”
  • Deut 5:2-3 : 2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. 3 He did not make this covenant with our ancestors but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now.
  • Deut 29:14 : 14 It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath,
  • Josh 24:25 : 25 That day Joshua drew up an agreement for the people, and he established rules and regulations for them in Shechem.
  • 2 Kgs 11:17 : 17 Jehoiada then drew up a covenant between the LORD and the king and people, stipulating that they should be loyal to the LORD.