The Israelites must keep the Sabbath by observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.

he commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the Lord’s covenant,

Joshua made a peace treaty with them and agreed to let them live. The leaders of the community sealed it with an oath.

That day Joshua drew up an agreement for the people, and he established rules and regulations for them in Shechem.

When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard the news, they went to the stronghold of the temple of El-Berith.

The Israelites asked the Lord (for the ark of God’s covenant was there in those days;

When the two of them had made a covenant before the Lord, David stayed on at Horesh, but Jonathan went to his house.

He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord could be placed there.

and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel were to blow trumpets regularly before the ark of God’s covenant.

Jehoiada then drew up a covenant stipulating that he, all the people, and the king should be loyal to the Lord.

Now I intend to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger.

The earth is defiled by its inhabitants, for they have violated laws, disregarded the regulation, and broken the permanent treaty.

Highways are empty, there are no travelers. Treaties are broken, witnesses are despised, human life is treated with disrespect.

The answer will come back, “It is because they broke their covenant with the Lord their God and worshiped and served other gods.”

Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a lasting covenant with you.

He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Take note – he gave his promise and did all these things – he will not escape!

Then the king of the north will return to his own land with much property. His mind will be set against the holy covenant. He will take action, and then return to his own land.

Then with smooth words he will defile those who have rejected the covenant. But the people who are loyal to their God will act valiantly.

They utter empty words, taking false oaths and making empty agreements. Therefore legal disputes sprout up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a plowed field.

So the army sent to Shiloh, and they took from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts who sits between the cherubim. Now the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.