1930 verses about Covenant

Arius king of the Spartans to Onias the chief priest, greeting:

It has been found in writing, concerning the Spartans and the Jews, that they are kindred, and that they are of the stock of Abraham:

And we moreover do write on our part to you, that your cattle and goods are ours, and ours are yours. We do command therefore that they make report to you on this wise.

King Demetrius to Simon the high priest and Friend of kings, and to the elders and nation of the Jews, greeting:

The golden crown, and the palm branch, which you⌃ sent, we have received: and we are ready to make a stedfast peace with you, yes, and to write to our officers, to grant immunities to you.

And whatever things we confirmed to you, they are confirmed; and the strongholds, which you⌃ have built, let them be your own.

And the people began to write in their instruments and contracts, In the first year of Simon, the great high priest and captain and leader of the Jews.

And they cried out to Simon, that he should give them his right hand; and he gave it to them: and he put them out from thence, and he cleansed the citadel from its pollutions.

they wrote to him on tables of brass, to renew with him the friendship and the confederacy which they had confirmed with Judas and Jonathan his kindred;

And this is the copy of the letters which the Spartans sent: The rulers of the Spartans, and the city, to Simon the high priest, and to the elders, and the priests, and the residue of the people of the Jews, our kindred, greeting:

and we did register the things that were spoken by them in the public records after this manner: Numenius son of Antiochus, and Antipater son of Jason, the Jews’ ambassadors, came to us to renew the friendship they had with us.

And it pleased the people to entertain the men honorably, and to put the copy of their words in the public records, to the end that the people of the Spartans might have a memorial thereof: moreover they wrote a copy of these things to Simon the high priest.

After this Simon sent Numenius to Rome with a great shield of gold of a thousand pound weight, in order to confirm the confederacy with them.

And they wrote on tables of brass, and set them upon pillars in mount Sion: and this is the copy of the writing: On the eighteenth day of Elul, in the hundred and seventy and second year, and this is the third year of Simon the high priest,

in Asaramel, in a great congregation of priests and people and princes of the nation, and of the elders of the country, was it notified to us:

and king Demetrius confirmed to him the high priesthood according to these things,

and that the Jews and the priests were well pleased that Simon should be their leader and high priest forever, until there should arise a faithful prophet;

All the people consented to ordain for Simon that he should do according to these words;

and Simon accepted hereof, and consented to be high priest, and to be captain and governor of the Jews and of the priests, and to be protector of all.

and moreover to put the copies thereof in the treasury, to the end that Simon and his sons might have them.

And Antiochus son of Demetrius the king sent letters from the isles of the sea to Simon the priest and governor of the Jews, and to all the nation;

and the contents thereof were after this manner: King Antiochus to Simon the chief priest and governor, and to the nation of the Jews, greeting:

moreover, when we shall have established our kingdom, we will glorify you and your nation and the temple with great glory, so that your glory shall be made manifest in all the earth.

The Jews’ ambassadors came to us as our friends and confederates, to renew the old friendship and confederacy, being sent from Simon the high priest, and from the people of the Jews:

But the copy hereof they wrote to Simon the high priest.

And he would not receive them, but set at nothing all the covenants which he had made with him aforetime, and was estranged from him.

and may God do good to you, and remember his covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, his faithful servants;

Plant your people in your holy place, even as Moses said.

Howbeit the Lord did not choose the nation for the place’s sake, but the place for the nation’s sake.

For these our kindred, having endured a short pain that brings everlasting life, have now died under God’s covenant; But you, through the judgement of God, shall receive in just measure the penalties of your arrogancy.

and this, if not for their own sakes, yet for the covenants made with their fathers, and because he had called them by his reverend and glorious name.

So when these covenants had been made, Lysias departed to the king, and the Jews went about their husbandry.

So when he had with many words confirmed the agreement to restore them without hurt, they let him go that they might save their kindred.

came to Ptolemais. The men of Ptolemais were displeased at the treaty, for they had exceeding great indignation against the Jews: they desired to annul the articles of the agreement.

So when these proposals had been long considered, and the leader had made the troops acquainted therewith, and it appeared that they were all of like mind, they consented to the covenants.

But Alcimus, perceiving the good will that was between them, and having got possession of the covenants that had been made, came to Demetrius and told him that Nicanor was ill affected toward the state, for he had appointed that conspirator against his kingdom, Judas, to be his successor.

And the king, falling into a rage, and being exasperated by the calumnnies of that most wicked man, wrote to Nicanor, signifying that he was displeased at the covenants, and commanding him to send Maccabaeus prisoner to Antioch in all haste.

And when this message came to Nicanor, he was confounded, and was sore troubled at the thought of annulling the articles that had been agreed upon, the man having done no wrong;

So the children of Israel which were present at that time held the passover, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

And after that king Nabuchodonosor had made him to swear by the name of the Lord, he forswore himself, and rebelled; and hardening his neck, and his heart, he transgressed the laws of the Lord, the God of Israel.

You did also vow to build up the temple, which the Edomites burned when Judea was made desolate by the Chaldeans.

And all those who had made any vow to God began to offer sacrifices to God from the new moon of the seventh month, although the temple of God was not yet built.

And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the other that were of the captivity, that were added to them, did according to the things written in the book of Moses.

And now, O Lord, what shall we say, having these things? For we have transgressed your commandments, which you gave by the hand of your servants the prophets, saying,

Let us make an oath to the Lord herein, that we will put away all our wives, which we have taken of the strangers, with their children,

So Esdras arose, and took an oath of the chief of the priests and Levites of all Israel to do after these things; and so they sware.

So their cause that held strange wives was brought to an end by the new moon of the first month.

And they gave their hands to put away their wives, and to offer rams to make reconcilement for their error.

And you did promise, out of love to the people of Israel, that should we fall away from you, and become afflicted, and then come to this house and pray, you would hear our prayer.

Accordingly, bearing no ill-will against their kinsmen at Jerusalem, but rather remembering our connection with them, and the numerous matters with sincere heart from a remote period entrusted to them, we wished to venture a total alteration of their state, by bestowing upon them the rights of citizens of Alexandria, and to admit them to the everlasting rites of our solemnities.

look upon the seed of Abraham, upon the children of the sanctified Jacob, your sanctified inheritance, O Father, now being wrongfully destroyed as strangers in a strange land.

They made a public ordinance to commemorate these things for generations to come, as long as they should be sojourners. They thus established these days as days of mirth, not for the purpose of drinking or luxury, but because God had saved them.

Did I not bring them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage? but they have provoked me to wrath, and have despised my counsels.

I divided among you fruitful lands; I cast out the Canaanites, the Pherezites, and the Philistines, before you: what shall I yet do more for you? says the Lord.

that you⌃ would be my people, and I should be your God; that you⌃ would be my children, and I should be your father?

As for me, O father, I call upon you for a witness over the mother of these children, because they would not keep my covenant,

Let them be scattered abroad among the heathen, let their names be blotted out of the earth: for they have despised my covenant.

And it came to pass, when they did wickedly before you, you did choose you one from among them, whose name was Abraham;

and made an everlasting covenant with him, promising him that you would never forsake his seed.

And to him you gave Isaac, and to Isaac you gave Jacob and Esau. And you did set apart Jacob for yourself, but did put by Esau: and Jacob became a great multitude.

And it came to pass, that when you led his seed out of Egypt, you brought them up to the mount Sinai.

Or is there any other nation that knows you beside Israel? or what tribes have so believed your covenants as these tribes of Jacob?

For it was not in my mind to be curious of the ways above, but of such things as pass by us daily; because Israel is given up as a reproach to the heathen, and the people whom you have loved is given over to ungodly nations, and the law of our forefathers is made of none effect, and the written covenants are nowhere regarded,

or know you not that Israel is committed to you in the land of their captivity?

And they which did gainsay your promises have trodden them down that believed your covenants.

And he said to me, From Abraham to Abraham, inasmuch as Jacob and Esau were born of him, for Jacob’s hand held the heel of Esau from the beginning.

But we your people, whom you have called your firstborn, your only begotten, and your fervent lover, are given into their hands.

but they despised his law, and denied his covenants; they have not been faithful to his statutes, and have not performed his works.

But as touching them for whom my prayer was made, what shall I say? for who is there of those who are alive that has not sinned, and who of the sons of men that has not transgressed your covenant?

The third way, they shall see the reward laid up for those who have believed the covenants of the Most High.

Regard not the doings of those who deal wickedly, but of those who have kept your covenants in affliction.

our lute is brought low, our song is put to silence, our rejoicing is at an end; the light of our candlestick is put out, the ark of our covenant is plundered, our holy things are defiled, and the name that is called upon us is profaned; our freemen are despitefully treated, our priests are burned, our Levites are gone into captivity, our virgins are defiled, and our wives ravished; our righteous men carried away, our little ones betrayed, our young men are brought into bondage, and our strong men are become weak;

and I sent him, and he led my people out of Egypt; and I brought him up to the mount of Sinai, where I held him by me for many days;

Our fathers at the beginning were strangers in Egypt, and they were delivered from thence,

Then was the land, even the land of Sion, given you for a possession: but you⌃ yourselves, and your fathers, have done unrighteousness, and have not kept the ways which the Most High commanded you.

who had made a covenant, if he would give him this authority, to pay yearly three thousand six hundred and sixty talents.

nor will I transgress the sacred oaths of my forefathers to keep the law.

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the exile to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon to the Christ, fourteen generations.

“Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’ Numbers 30:2; Deuteronomy 23:21; Ecclesiastes 5:4

As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”

He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, “All of you drink it,

for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.

But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”

He took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them. They all drank of it.

He said to them, “This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.

Most certainly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew in God’s Kingdom.”

As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and his offspring forever.”

On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;

to show mercy towards our fathers, to remember his holy covenant,

the oath which he swore to Abraham, our father,

He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me.”

Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.

Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘In your offspring will all the families of the earth be blessed.’ Genesis 22:18; 26:4

He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

and said to him, ‘Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’ Genesis 12:1

Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living.