Covenants
42 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
27 sections
- (With Death and Hell) Carnal Security
- (With Stones and Beasts, of the Earth) Peace
- Agreements Between Two Parties
- Conditions of Clearly Specified
- Conditions of Conformed by Oath
- Conditions of Witnessed
- Conditions of Written and Sealed
- Designed For: Establishing Friendship
- Designed For: Establishing Peace
- Designed For: Mutual Protection
- Designed For: Procuring Assistance in War
- Designed For: Promoting Commerce
- Designed For: Selling Land
- Followed by a Feast
- God often Called to Witness
- Made by Passing Between the Pieces of the Divided Sacrifices
- Names Given to Places where Made
- Pillars Raised in Token of
- Presents Given As Tokens
- Ratified by Joining Hands
- Salt a Sign of Perpetuity In
- The Jews: Condemned for Making, with Idolatrous Nations
- The Jews: Forbidden to Make, with the Nations of Canaan
- The Jews: Frequently Made with Other Nations
- The Jews: Regarded, As Sacred
- Violated by the Wicked
- when Confirmed, Unalterable
(With Death and Hell) Carnal Security
- Isaiah 28:15 For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
- Isaiah 28:18 Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.
(With Stones and Beasts, of the Earth) Peace
- Job 5:23 For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.
- Hosea 2:18 On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and battle in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.
Agreements Between Two Parties
- Genesis 26:28 “We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you
- Daniel 11:6 After some years they will form an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will go to the king of the North to seal the agreement. But his daughter will not retain her position of power, nor will his strength endure. …
Conditions of Clearly Specified
- 1 Samuel 11:1–2 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up and laid siege to Jabesh-gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to him, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.” …
Conditions of Conformed by Oath
- Genesis 21:23 Now, therefore, swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or descendants. Show to me and to the country in which you reside the same kindness that I have shown to you.”
- Genesis 21:31 So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.
- Genesis 26:31 And they got up early the next morning and swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.
Conditions of Witnessed
- Genesis 23:17–18 So Ephron’s field at Machpelah near Mamre, the cave that was in it, and all the trees within the boundaries of the field were deeded over …
- Ruth 4:9–11 At this, Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I am buying from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon. …
Conditions of Written and Sealed
- Nehemiah 9:38 In view of all this, we make a binding agreement, putting it in writing and sealing it with the names of our leaders, Levites, and priests.”
- Nehemiah 10:1 Now these were the ones who sealed the document: Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, and also Zedekiah,
Designed For: Establishing Friendship
- 1 Samuel 18:3 Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.
Designed For: Establishing Peace
- Joshua 9:15–16 And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them. …
Designed For: Mutual Protection
- Genesis 26:28–29 “We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you …
- Genesis 31:50–52 If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, although no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.” …
Designed For: Procuring Assistance in War
- 1 Kings 15:18–19 So Asa withdrew all the silver and gold that remained in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace. He entrusted it to his servants and sent them with this message to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of …
Designed For: Promoting Commerce
- 1 Kings 5:6–11 Now therefore, order that cedars of Lebanon be cut down for me. My servants will be with your servants, and I will pay your servants whatever wages you set, for you know that there are none among us as skilled in logging as the Sidonians.” …
Designed For: Selling Land
- Genesis 23:14–16 Ephron answered Abraham, …
Followed by a Feast
- Genesis 26:30 So Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.
- Genesis 31:54 Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.
God often Called to Witness
- Genesis 31:50 If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, although no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.”
- Genesis 31:53 May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
Made by Passing Between the Pieces of the Divided Sacrifices
- Genesis 15:9–17 And the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.” …
- Jeremiah 34:18–19 And those who have transgressed My covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before Me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two in order to pass between its pieces. …
Names Given to Places where Made
- Genesis 21:31 So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.
- Genesis 31:47–49 Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed. …
Pillars Raised in Token of
- Genesis 31:45–46 So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar, …
Presents Given As Tokens
- Genesis 21:27–30 So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant. …
- 1 Samuel 18:3–4 Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself. …
Ratified by Joining Hands
- Proverbs 11:21 Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.
- Ezekiel 17:18 He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Seeing that he gave his hand in pledge yet did all these things, he will not escape!’
Salt a Sign of Perpetuity In
- Numbers 18:19 All the holy offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD I give to you and to your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. It is a permanent covenant of salt before the LORD for you and your offspring.”
- 2 Chronicles 13:5 Do you not know that the LORD, the God of Israel, has given the kingship of Israel to David and his descendants forever by a covenant of salt?
The Jews: Condemned for Making, with Idolatrous Nations
- Isaiah 30:2–5 They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection and take refuge in Egypt’s shade. …
- Hosea 12:1 Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.
The Jews: Forbidden to Make, with the Nations of Canaan
- Exodus 23:32 You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.
- Deuteronomy 7:2 and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
The Jews: Frequently Made with Other Nations
- 1 Kings 5:12 And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
- 2 Kings 17:4 But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea had conspired to send envoys to King So of Egypt, and that he had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. Therefore the king of Assyria arrested Hoshea and put …
The Jews: Regarded, As Sacred
- Joshua 9:16–19 Three days after they had made the treaty with the Gibeonites, the Israelites learned that they were neighbors, living among them. …
- Psalm 15:4 who despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath,
Violated by the Wicked
- Romans 1:31 They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.
- 2 Timothy 3:3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,
when Confirmed, Unalterable
- Galatians 3:15 Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.