• Bible makes reference to a number of covenants (Hebrew: בְּרִיתוֹת) with God (YHWH). These include the Noahic Covenant set out in Genesis 9, which is decreed...
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    the Mosaic covenant (named after Moses), also known as the Sinaitic covenant (after the biblical Mount Sinai), which refers to a covenant between the...
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  • general Covenant (biblical), in the Hebrew Bible Covenant in Mormonism, a sacred agreement between God and a person or group of people Covenant of allegiance...
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    Covenant theology (also known as covenantalism, federal theology, or federalism) is a biblical theology, a conceptual overview and interpretive framework...
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    The Ark of the Covenant, also known as the Ark of the Testimony or the Ark of God, is a religious storage and relic held to be the most sacred object by...
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  • The New Covenant (Ancient Greek: διαθήκη καινή, romanized: diathḗkē kainḗ) is a biblical interpretation which was originally derived from a phrase which...
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    Israel. This was the first of a series of covenants made between God and the Patriarchs. According to the biblical story, in Genesis 15:1–4 Abram’s most important...
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    believers in Jesus and in the New Covenant. Theologian Thomas Aquinas explained that there are three types of biblical precepts: moral, ceremonial, and...
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  • Exodus 20:22–23:19; or, more strictly, the term Covenant Code may be applied to Exodus 21:1–22:16. Biblically, the text is the second of the law codes said...
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  • derived from the biblical covenants, notably from the Abrahamic covenant. Christianity asserts that God made an additional covenant through Jesus Christ...
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    Biblical Canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tawāhǝdo Church (EOTC)." The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Orthodox Christianity (2022): 211 ff Covenant Christian...
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  • Biblical law is the legal aspects of the Bible, the holy scriptures of Christianity and Judaism. Abrogation of Old Covenant laws Christian views on the...
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    dictionary. Abrogation of Old Covenant laws Biblical law in Christianity Covenant (biblical) New Commandment New Covenant Split of early Christianity and...
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    Stone Tablets, or Tablets of Testimony; Biblical Hebrew: לוּחֹת הַבְּרִית lūḥōt habbǝrīt "tablets of the covenant", לֻחֹת הָאֶבֶן luḥōt hāʾeḇen or לֻחֹת...
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  • and hold to classical covenant theology, which is the traditional Calvinist view of the relationship between the Old Covenant and Christianity. Christian...
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    summary of the important points in the Code. The Covenant Code is believed by most scholars of biblical criticism as having originally been a separate text...
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    Fall of Jericho (category Ark of the Covenant)
    The Fall of Jericho, as described in the biblical Book of Joshua, was the first military engagement fought by the Israelites in the course of the conquest...
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  • Jesus (Luke 22:20; Dan. 9:26-27) that fulfills all preceding biblical covenants – a covenant in which all believers have full forgiveness of sins (Jer....
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  • Gentry and Stephen Wellum (Kingdom through Covenant: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Covenants) have helped popularize this approach to the...
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    The Bible Unearthed, page 125. "Temporary Home of The Ark of The Covenant". Biblical Archaeology Review. 43 (4): 12. 3 June 2017. Conder, C. R., The Survey...
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    and curses, and ratification by animal sacrifice. Biblical covenants, in contrast to Eastern covenants in general, are between a god, Yahweh, and a people...
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  • minor biblical figures. A Levite sent by Jehoshaphat to teach in the cities of Judah. (2 Chronicles 17:8) A chief of the people. He sealed the covenant to...
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  • North, Greg Bahnsen, and R.J. Rushdoony. Theonomy presumes biblical Israel’s Old Covenant judicial laws have not been abrogated, and therefore all civil...
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    Mercy seat (category Ark of the Covenant)
    כַּפֹּרֶת kapōreṯ) or mercy seat was the gold lid placed on the Ark of the Covenant, with two cherubim at the ends to cover and create the space in which Yahweh...
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  • priestly covenant (Hebrew: ברית הכהונה brith ha-kehuna) is the biblical covenant that God gave to Aaron and his descendants, the kohanim. This covenant consisted...
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    orphans. The biblical story affirms God's unconditional love for his people, but he still punishes them when they fail to live by the covenant. God leads...
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  • God, solely devoted to use by/for God, thereby making it "holy." Covenant (biblical) Creed Crown Of Thorns Crucifixion darkness Crucifixion of Jesus Daily...
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    Ten Commandments (category Articles containing Biblical Hebrew-language text)
    lukhót habberít "tablets of the covenant", or לֻחֹת הָעֵדֻת, lukhot ha'edut "tablets of the testimony". The biblical narrative of the revelation at Sinai...
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    tradition is that the account is one comprehensive story modern scholars of biblical criticism identify the account as a composite work made up of two stories...
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  • instructions for proselytes as well. This relationship is expressed in the biblical covenant (contract) between the two, received by Moses. The law codes in books...
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