Thematic Bible: Separation of
Thematic Bible
Israel » Separation of » Of israel from the heathen, encouraged
For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of the earth?”
Now therefore, make confession to the Lord God of your fathers and do His will; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.”
and when the Lord your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them.
So now do not give your daughters to their sons nor take their daughters to your sons, and never seek their peace or their prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good things of the land and leave it as an inheritance to your sons forever.’
and as for you, you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed Me; what is this you have done?
so that you will not associate with these nations, these which remain among you, or mention the name of their gods, or make anyone swear by them, or serve them, or bow down to them.
Thus you are to be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy; and I have set you apart from the peoples to be Mine.
And I look at him from the hills;
And will not be reckoned among the nations.
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And
You will become
They for their part may turn to you,
But as for you, you must not turn to them.
Israel » Separation of » Vine, a
And planted it with
And He built a tower in the middle of it
And also hewed out a
Then He
But it produced only
A completely faithful seed.
How then have you turned yourself before Me
Into the
He produces fruit for himself.
The more his fruit,
The more altars he
The
The better
You
Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘As the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
Then it sprouted and became a low, spreading vine with its branches turned toward him, but its roots remained under it. So it became a vine and yielded shoots and sent out branches.
Planted by the waters;
It was fruitful and full of branches
Because of abundant waters.
Israel » Separation of » Theocracy of
The Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them.
At the command of the Lord the sons of Israel would set out, and at the command of the Lord they would camp; as long as the cloud settled over the tabernacle, they remained camped.
that you may enter into the covenant with the Lord your God, and into His oath which the Lord your God is making with you today,
But Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, nor shall my son rule over you; the Lord shall rule over you.”
When you saw that Nahash the king of the sons of Ammon came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ although the Lord your God was your king.