Deuteronomy 5:2

Yahweh our God, solemnised with us a covenant in Horeb:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

In Context

1Then called Moses unto all Israel and said unto them—Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the regulations, which I am speaking in your ears to-day,—so shall ye learn them, and observe to do them.

3not with our fathers did Yahweh solemnise this covenant,—but with us, ourselves—these here to-day, all of us living.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:5Now, therefore, if ye will, indeed hearken, to my voice, And keep my covenant, Then shall ye be mine as a treasure beyond all the peoples, For, mine, is all the earth;

Exodus 34:10And he said—Lo! I, am about to solemnise a covenant,-in presence of all thy people, will I do marvellous things, which have not been created in any part of the earth nor among any of the nations,—so shall all the people in whose midst thou, art see the work of Yahweh for a fearful thing, it is, which I, am doing with thee.

Deuteronomy 4:13Then declared he unto you his covenant which he commanded you to do, the ten words,—and wrote them upon two tables of stone.

2 Kings 17:35With, whom, Yahweh solemnised a covenant, and commanded them saying—Ye shall not revere other gods,—nor bow down to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them;

Jeremiah 34:13Thus, saith Yahweh God of Israel,—I myself, solemnised a covenant with your fathers, in the day when I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves saying:

Hebrews 9:19For, when every commandment according to the law had been spoken by Moses unto all the people, taking the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, both, the scroll itself, and all the people, he sprinkled;

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 5:2-6

The Decalogue Repeated. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them. 2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3 The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. 4 The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire, 5 (I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to… Read the whole commentary →

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