Covenants
Agreements between two parties -- Ge 26:28; Da 11:6. Designed for Establishing friendship. -- 1Sa 18:3. Procuring assistance in war. -- 1Ki 15:18,19. Mutual protection. -- Ge 26:28,29; 31:50-52. Establishing peace. -- Jos 9:15,16. Promoting commerce. -- 1Ki 5:6-11. Selling land. -- Ge 23:14-16. Conditions of Clearly specified. -- 1Sa 11:1,2. Conformed by oath. -- Ge 21:23,31; 26:31. Witnessed. -- Ge 23:17,18; Ru 4:9-11. Written and sealed. -- Ne 9:38; 10:1. God often called to witness -- Ge 31:50,53. When confirmed, unalterable -- Ga 3:15. Made by passing between the pieces of the divided sacrifices -- Ge 15:9-17; Jer 34:18,19. Salt a sign of perpetuity in -- Nu 18:19; 2Ch 13:5. Ratified by joining hands -- Pr 11:21; Eze 17:18. Followed by a feast -- Ge 26:30; 31:54. Presents given as tokens -- Ge 21:27-30; 1Sa 18:3,4. Pillars raised in token of -- Ge 31:45,46. Names given to places where made -- Ge 21:31; 31:47-49. The Jews Forbidden to make, with the nations of Canaan. -- Ex 23:32; De 7:2. Frequently made with other nations. -- 1Ki 5:12; 2Ki 17:4. Condemned for making, with idolatrous nations. -- Isa 30:2-5; Ho 12:1. Regarded, as sacred. -- Jos 9:16-19; Ps 15:4. Violated by the wicked -- Ro 1:31; 2Ti 3:3. Illustrative Of the contract of marriage. -- Mal 2:14. Of God's promises to man. -- Ge 9:9-11; Eph 2:12. Of the united determination of a people to serve God. -- 2Ki 11:17; 2Ch 15:12; Ne 10:29. Of good resolutions. -- Job 31:1. (With death and hell,) of carnal security. -- Isa 28:15,18. (With stones and beasts, of the earth,) of peace and prosperity. -- Job 5:23; Ho 2:18.