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These statutes are part of the divine law that governs the moral, ceremonial, and civil aspects of life for the Israelites and, by extension, provide moral guidance for Christians today. The term is often used interchangeably with "commandments" and "ordinances," though each may carry slightly different connotations depending on the context. Old Testament Usage The concept of statutes is deeply rooted in the Old Testament, where it is frequently mentioned in the Pentateuch, particularly in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. These statutes were given to Moses on Mount Sinai and were intended to set Israel apart as a holy nation. They encompass a wide range of instructions, including moral laws, ceremonial practices, and civil regulations. For example, in <a href="/leviticus/18-4.htm">Leviticus 18:4-5</a> , God commands, "You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God. Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD." Here, the statutes are presented as a path to life and blessing, emphasizing obedience to God's will. The statutes also serve as a reminder of the covenant relationship between God and Israel. In <a href="/deuteronomy/4.htm">Deuteronomy 4:1</a> , Moses instructs the Israelites, "Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you." Purpose and Function The statutes were designed to maintain the holiness and distinctiveness of the Israelite community. They provided a framework for worship, social justice, and personal conduct. By adhering to these divine laws, the Israelites demonstrated their commitment to God and their identity as His chosen people. Moreover, the statutes were intended to be a witness to the surrounding nations. As stated in <a href="/deuteronomy/4-6.htm">Deuteronomy 4:6</a> , "Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear of all these statutes and say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'" New Testament Perspective In the New Testament, the emphasis shifts from the letter of the law to the spirit of the law, as fulfilled in Jesus Christ. While the ceremonial and civil statutes specific to Israel are no longer binding on Christians, the moral principles underlying these statutes remain relevant. Jesus affirmed the importance of God's commandments, summarizing them in the two greatest commandments: love for God and love for neighbor (<a href="/matthew/22-37.htm">Matthew 22:37-40</a>). The Apostle Paul also addresses the role of the law in the life of a believer. In <a href="/romans/7-12.htm">Romans 7:12</a> , he states, "So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good." Paul acknowledges the goodness of the law while emphasizing that righteousness comes through faith in Christ, not through the works of the law. Application for Believers For Christians, the statutes of the Old Testament serve as a guide to understanding God's character and His expectations for holy living. They point to the need for a Savior and the transformative power of the Holy Spirit, who enables believers to live in accordance with God's will. As followers of Christ, believers are called to uphold the moral truths embodied in the statutes, reflecting God's holiness in their lives and communities.<a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/3741.htm">3741. hosios -- righteous, pious, holy</a> ... Of uncertain affinity; properly, right (by intrinsic or divine character; thus distinguished from dikaios, which refers rather to human statutes and relations ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3741.htm - 7k<a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/2708.htm">2708. chuqqah -- something prescribed, an enactment, statute</a> ... something prescribed, an enactment, statute. Transliteration: chuqqah Phonetic Spelling: (khook-kaw') Short Definition: statutes. Word Origin fem. ... /hebrew/2708.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/2706.htm">2706. choq -- something prescribed or owed, a statute</a> ... 2705, 2706. choq. 2707 . something prescribed or owed, a statute. Transliteration: choq Phonetic Spelling: (khoke) Short Definition: statutes. ... /hebrew/2706.htm - 6k<a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><a href="/library/schaff/the_seven_ecumenical_councils/canon_i_that_the_statutes.htm">That the Statutes of the Nicene Council are to be Scrupulously ...</a> ... Canon I. That the statutes of the Nicene Council are to be scrupulously observed.? That the statutes of the Nicene Council are to be scrupulously observed. ... /.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/canon i that the statutes.htm<a href="/library/smith/the_life_of_william_carey/ii_statutes_and_regulations_of_serampore.htm">Statutes and Regulations of Serampore College</a> ... LIFE OF WILLIAM CAREY, DD II."STATUTES AND REGULATIONS OF SERAMPORE COLLEGE. June 12th, 1833. 1. Article the Third of the Charter ... /.../smith/the life of william carey/ii statutes and regulations of serampore.htm<a href="/library/pamphilius/the_life_of_constantine/chapter_xlv_statutes_which_forbade_sacrifice.htm">Statutes which Forbade Sacrifice, and Enjoined the Building of ...</a> ... Book II. Chapter XLV."Statutes which forbade Sacrifice, and enjoined the Building of Churches. Soon after this, two laws were ... /.../the life of constantine/chapter xlv statutes which forbade sacrifice.htm<a href="/library/adams/hymns_for_christian_devotion/475__o_that_my.htm">"O that My Ways were Directed to Keep Thy Statutes. "</a> ... DEVOUT EXERCISES. 475. " "O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes.". 475. CM Watts. "O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes.". ... //christianbookshelf.org/adams/hymns for christian devotion/475 o that my.htm<a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_defects_occurring_during.htm">Whether the Defects Occurring During the Celebration of this ...</a> ... THIS SACRAMENT (SIX ARTICLES) Whether the defects occurring during the celebration of this sacrament can be sufficiently met by observing the Church's statutes ... /.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the defects occurring during.htm<a href="/library/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/january_2_i_will_cause.htm">January 2. "I Will Cause You to Walk in My Statutes" (Eze. xxxvi. ...</a> ... JANUARY 2. "I will cause you to walk in My statutes" (Eze. xxxvi. 27). "I will cause you to walk in My statutes" (Ezekiel 36:27). ... /.../simpson/days of heaven upon earth /january 2 i will cause.htm<a href="/library/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/august_25_and_i_will.htm">August 25. "And I Will Put My Spirit Within You, and Cause You to ...</a> ... AUGUST 25. "And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments and do them" (Ezek. xxxvi. 27). ... /.../simpson/days of heaven upon earth /august 25 and i will.htm<a href="/library/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/july_30_if_thou_wilt.htm">July 30. "If Thou Wilt Diligently Hearken unto the Voice of the ...</a> ... JULY 30. "If thou wilt diligently hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God and wilt keep all His statutes" (Ex. xv. 26). "If thou ... /.../simpson/days of heaven upon earth /july 30 if thou wilt.htm<a href="/library/smith/the_life_of_william_carey/appendix.htm">Appendix</a> ... the first Council, shall have full power and authority for the space of ten years from the date of these presents, to make and establish such statutes as shall ... //christianbookshelf.org/smith/the life of william carey/appendix.htm<a href="/library/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_24_destroyed_for_lack.htm">"Destroyed for Lack of Knowledge"</a> ... Exodus 19:5, 8. And when, a few days afterward, God's law was spoken from Sinai, and additional instruction in the form of statutes and judgments was ... /.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 24 destroyed for lack.htm<a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/s/statutes.htm">Statutes (178 Occurrences)</a> ... Multi-Version Concordance Statutes (178 Occurrences). Genesis 26:5 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my ... /s/statutes.htm - 40k<a href="/topical/t/testimonies.htm">Testimonies (40 Occurrences)</a> ... Deuteronomy 4:45 these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt ... /t/testimonies.htm - 18k<a href="/topical/r/regulations.htm">Regulations (37 Occurrences)</a> ... (See NIV). Leviticus 26:46 These are the statutes, ordinances and laws, which Yahweh made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses. ... /r/regulations.htm - 17k<a href="/topical/o/obeys.htm">Obeys (17 Occurrences)</a> ... (WEY). Leviticus 18:5 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am Yahweh. (See NIV). ... /o/obeys.htm - 11k<a href="/topical/o/observes.htm">Observes (14 Occurrences)</a> ... 18:17 who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not ... /o/observes.htm - 10k<a href="/topical/d/desecrated.htm">Desecrated (17 Occurrences)</a> ... Ezekiel 20:13 And -- rebel against me do the house of Israel in the wilderness, In My statutes they have not walked, And My judgments they have despised, Which ... /d/desecrated.htm - 12k<a href="/topical/r/requirements.htm">Requirements (26 Occurrences)</a> ... (WEY). Genesis 26:5 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." (WEB NIV). ... /r/requirements.htm - 14k<a href="/topical/j/judgments.htm">Judgments (146 Occurrences)</a> ... (KJV WBS YLT NAS). Leviticus 18:5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD. ... /j/judgments.htm - 37k<a href="/topical/o/ordinances.htm">Ordinances (119 Occurrences)</a> ... (KJV WBS). Leviticus 18:4 You shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am Yahweh your God. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV). ... /o/ordinances.htm - 37k<a href="/topical/d/decrees.htm">Decrees (131 Occurrences)</a> ... Genesis 26:5 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." (See NIV). Exodus ... /d/decrees.htm - 36k<a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/laws-commands-decrees-statutes.html">What is the difference between laws, commands, commandments, decrees, and statutes? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Solomon-wisdom.html">How did God respond when Solomon asked for wisdom? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Israel-promised-land.html">Did God give Israel the Promised Land for all time (Deuteronomy 4:40)? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div>Statutes (178 Occurrences)<a href="/genesis/26-5.htm">Genesis 26:5</a> because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/exodus/15-26.htm">Exodus 15:26</a> and he said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/exodus/18-16.htm">Exodus 18:16</a> When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/exodus/18-20.htm">Exodus 18:20</a> You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do. (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/leviticus/10-11.htm">Leviticus 10:11</a> and that you are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/leviticus/18-3.htm">Leviticus 18:3</a> You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived: and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes. (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/leviticus/18-4.htm">Leviticus 18:4</a> You shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am Yahweh your God. (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/leviticus/18-5.htm">Leviticus 18:5</a> You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/leviticus/18-26.htm">Leviticus 18:26</a> You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/leviticus/18-30.htm">Leviticus 18:30</a> and ye have kept My charge, so as not to do 'any' of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, and ye do not defile yourselves with them; I 'am' Jehovah your God.' (YLT)<a href="/leviticus/19-19.htm">Leviticus 19:19</a> "'You shall keep my statutes. "'You shall not crossbreed different kinds of animals. "'you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; "'neither shall there come upon on you a garment made of two kinds of material. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/leviticus/19-37.htm">Leviticus 19:37</a> "'You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/leviticus/20-8.htm">Leviticus 20:8</a> You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh who sanctifies you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/leviticus/20-22.htm">Leviticus 20:22</a> "'You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land, where I am bringing you to dwell, may not vomit you out. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/leviticus/20-23.htm">Leviticus 20:23</a> and ye walk not in the statutes of the nation which I am sending away from before you, for all these they have done, and I am wearied with them; (YLT)<a href="/leviticus/25-18.htm">Leviticus 25:18</a> "'Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/leviticus/26-3.htm">Leviticus 26:3</a> "'If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/leviticus/26-15.htm">Leviticus 26:15</a> and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/leviticus/26-43.htm">Leviticus 26:43</a> The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/leviticus/26-46.htm">Leviticus 26:46</a> These are the statutes, ordinances and laws, which Yahweh made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/numbers/9-3.htm">Numbers 9:3</a> On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season-according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it." (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/numbers/30-16.htm">Numbers 30:16</a> These are the statutes, which Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father's house. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/4-1.htm">Deuteronomy 4:1</a> Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/4-5.htm">Deuteronomy 4:5</a> Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/4-6.htm">Deuteronomy 4:6</a> Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/4-8.htm">Deuteronomy 4:8</a> What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/4-14.htm">Deuteronomy 4:14</a> Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/4-40.htm">Deuteronomy 4:40</a> You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/4-45.htm">Deuteronomy 4:45</a> these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/5-1.htm">Deuteronomy 5:1</a> Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that you may learn them, and observe to do them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/5-31.htm">Deuteronomy 5:31</a> But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/6-1.htm">Deuteronomy 6:1</a> Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/6-2.htm">Deuteronomy 6:2</a> that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/6-17.htm">Deuteronomy 6:17</a> You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/6-20.htm">Deuteronomy 6:20</a> When your son asks you in time to come, saying, "What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you mean?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/6-24.htm">Deuteronomy 6:24</a> Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/7-11.htm">Deuteronomy 7:11</a> You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/8-11.htm">Deuteronomy 8:11</a> Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/10-13.htm">Deuteronomy 10:13</a> to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/11-1.htm">Deuteronomy 11:1</a> Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/11-32.htm">Deuteronomy 11:32</a> You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/12-1.htm">Deuteronomy 12:1</a> These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/16-12.htm">Deuteronomy 16:12</a> You shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/17-19.htm">Deuteronomy 17:19</a> and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/26-16.htm">Deuteronomy 26:16</a> This day Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances: you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart, and with all your soul. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/26-17.htm">Deuteronomy 26:17</a> You have declared Yahweh this day to be your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/27-10.htm">Deuteronomy 27:10</a> You shall therefore obey the voice of Yahweh your God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/28-15.htm">Deuteronomy 28:15</a> But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/28-45.htm">Deuteronomy 28:45</a> All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/30-10.htm">Deuteronomy 30:10</a> if you shall obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/30-16.htm">Deuteronomy 30:16</a> in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/joshua/24-25.htm">Joshua 24:25</a> So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. (See RSV)<a href="/2_samuel/22-23.htm">2 Samuel 22:23</a> For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I did not depart from them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/1_kings/2-3.htm">1 Kings 2:3</a> and keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/1_kings/3-3.htm">1 Kings 3:3</a> Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_kings/3-14.htm">1 Kings 3:14</a> If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_kings/6-12.htm">1 Kings 6:12</a> "Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/1_kings/8-58.htm">1 Kings 8:58</a> that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/1_kings/8-61.htm">1 Kings 8:61</a> "Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/1_kings/9-4.htm">1 Kings 9:4</a> As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/1_kings/9-6.htm">1 Kings 9:6</a> But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/1_kings/11-11.htm">1 Kings 11:11</a> Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, "Because this is done by you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/1_kings/11-33.htm">1 Kings 11:33</a> because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon. They have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_kings/11-34.htm">1 Kings 11:34</a> "'However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant's sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_kings/11-38.htm">1 Kings 11:38</a> It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/2_kings/17-8.htm">2 Kings 17:8</a> and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)<a href="/2_kings/17-13.htm">2 Kings 17:13</a> Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/2_kings/17-15.htm">2 Kings 17:15</a> They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/2_kings/17-19.htm">2 Kings 17:19</a> Also Judah didn't keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)<a href="/2_kings/17-34.htm">2 Kings 17:34</a> To this day they do what they did before: they don't fear Yahweh, neither do they follow their statutes, or their ordinances, or the law or the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/2_kings/17-37.htm">2 Kings 17:37</a> The statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do forevermore. You shall not fear other gods. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/2_kings/23-3.htm">2 Kings 23:3</a> The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book: and all the people stood to the covenant. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/1_chronicles/22-13.htm">1 Chronicles 22:13</a> Then you shall prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong, and of good courage. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/1_chronicles/29-19.htm">1 Chronicles 29:19</a> and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/2_chronicles/7-17.htm">2 Chronicles 7:17</a> As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/2_chronicles/7-19.htm">2 Chronicles 7:19</a> But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/2_chronicles/19-10.htm">2 Chronicles 19:10</a> Whenever any controversy shall come to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you shall warn them, that they not be guilty towards Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers: this do, and you shall not be guilty. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/2_chronicles/33-8.htm">2 Chronicles 33:8</a> neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law and the statutes and the ordinances given by Moses. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/2_chronicles/34-31.htm">2 Chronicles 34:31</a> The king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/ezra/7-10.htm">Ezra 7:10</a> For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Yahweh, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)<a href="/ezra/7-11.htm">Ezra 7:11</a> Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the commandments of Yahweh, and of his statutes to Israel: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/nehemiah/1-7.htm">Nehemiah 1:7</a> we have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you commanded your servant Moses. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/nehemiah/9-13.htm">Nehemiah 9:13</a> You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/nehemiah/9-14.htm">Nehemiah 9:14</a> and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, and statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/nehemiah/10-29.htm">Nehemiah 10:29</a> They joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/job/38-33.htm">Job 38:33</a> Hast thou known the statutes of heaven? Or dost thou appoint Its dominion in the earth? (YLT)<a href="/psalms/18-22.htm">Psalms 18:22</a> For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away his statutes from me. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/psalms/19-7.htm">Psalms 19:7</a> Yahweh's law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh's testimony is sure, making wise the simple. (See NIV)<a href="/psalms/19-8.htm">Psalms 19:8</a> The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. (KJV WBS)<a href="/psalms/50-16.htm">Psalms 50:16</a> But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/psalms/78-5.htm">Psalms 78:5</a> For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; (See NIV)<a href="/psalms/78-56.htm">Psalms 78:56</a> Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies; (See NIV)<a href="/psalms/89-30.htm">Psalms 89:30</a> If his children forsake my law, and don't walk in my ordinances; (See NIV)<a href="/psalms/89-31.htm">Psalms 89:31</a> if they break my statutes, and don't keep my commandments; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/psalms/93-5.htm">Psalms 93:5</a> Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, Yahweh, forevermore. (WEB NIV)<a href="/psalms/99-7.htm">Psalms 99:7</a> He spoke unto them in the pillar of cloud; they kept His testimonies, and the statute that He gave them. (See RSV NIV)<a href="/psalms/105-45.htm">Psalms 105:45</a> that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah! (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/psalms/119-2.htm">Psalms 119:2</a> Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart. (WEB NIV)<a href="/psalms/119-5.htm">Psalms 119:5</a> Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes! (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/psalms/119-8.htm">Psalms 119:8</a> I will observe your statutes. Don't utterly forsake me. 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