You must carefully obey at all times the rules, regulations, law, and commandments he wrote down for you. You must not worship other gods.

King Hezekiah ¹  stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals and stringed instruments, just as David, Gad the king’s prophet, ²  and Nathan the prophet had ordered. (The Lord had actually given these orders through his prophets.)

Why then have you broken the oath you made before the Lord and disobeyed the order I gave you?” ¹ 

all that the Lord has commanded you by the authority ¹  of Moses, from the day that the Lord commanded Moses and continuing through your future generations –

Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have disobeyed what the Lord commanded ¹  and what you said as well. ²  For I was afraid of the army, and I followed their wishes. ³ 

If you fear the Lord, serving him and obeying him ¹  and not rebelling against what he says, ²  and if both you and the king who rules over you follow the Lord your God, all will be well. ³ 

He ¹  sends his command through the earth; ²  swiftly his order reaches its destination. ³ 

I say this as a concession, not as a command.

We will be innocent if we carefully keep all these commandments ¹  before the Lord our God, just as he demands.” ² 

Now pay attention to all the commandments ¹  I am giving ²  you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed, ³ 

For if you carefully observe all of these commandments ¹  I am giving you ²  and love the Lord your God, live according to his standards, ³  and remain loyal to him,

For I have not spoken from my own authority, ¹  but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me ²  what I should say and what I should speak.

After this all the Israelites approached, and he commanded them all that the Lord had spoken to him on Mount Sinai.

So keep the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do.

if you carefully obey ¹  him ²  by keeping ³  all these commandments that I am giving ⁴  you today.

When Samuel came to him, ¹  Saul said to him, “May the Lord bless you! I have done what the Lord said.”

The people were silent and did not respond, for the king had ordered, “Don’t respond to him.”

They were silent and did not respond, for the king had ordered, “Don’t respond to him.”

he does not need to honor his father.’ ¹  You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition.

From Paul, ¹  an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior ²  and of Christ Jesus our hope,