Therefore, let’s make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

现在当与我们的神立约，休这一切的妻，离绝她们所生的，照着我主和那因神命令战兢之人所议定的，按律法而行。

现在，我们要与我们的上帝立约，送走所有的妻子和她们所生的，照着主和那些因我们上帝诫命战兢之人所议定的，按律法去行。

现在，我们要与我们的神立约，送走所有的妻子和她们所生的，照着主和那些因我们神诫命战兢之人所议定的，按律法去行。

现在，我们来与我们的上帝立约，听从你和那些敬畏我们上帝诫命之人的指示，遵照律法而行，送走这些妻子和她们的儿女。

现在，我们应当与我们的神立约，按着我主和那些因我们神的诫命而战兢的人所议定的，照着律法而行，送走这些妻子和她们所生的儿女。

現在當與我們的神立約，休這一切的妻，離絕她們所生的，照着我主和那因神命令戰兢之人所議定的，按律法而行。

現在，我們要與我們的上帝立約，送走所有的妻子和她們所生的，照着主和那些因我們上帝誡命戰兢之人所議定的，按律法去行。

現在，我們要與我們的神立約，送走所有的妻子和她們所生的，照着主和那些因我們神誡命戰兢之人所議定的，按律法去行。

現在，我們來與我們的上帝立約，聽從你和那些敬畏我們上帝誡命之人的指示，遵照律法而行，送走這些妻子和她們的兒女。

現在，我們應當與我們的神立約，按著我主和那些因我們神的誡命而戰兢的人所議定的，照著律法而行，送走這些妻子和她們所生的兒女。

現在我們應當和我們的上帝立約：將我們的妻子和她們所生的孩子都離出去，照我主和那因上帝之命令而戰戰兢兢的人所議定的；讓這事按律法而行。

今當與我上帝立約、必出此妻、屏其所生、從我主及懍遵我上帝命者之議、俱循法律而行、

今指上帝而誓、凡娶於異邦者、必出其妻、與其所生、從我主及畏上帝者之言、循例而行。

今欲在我天主前立約、必出此諸妻與其所生者、從我主及懍遵天主命者所議定、循例而行、

Now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all these women and their children, in accordance with the counsel of my lord and of those who fear the commands of our God. Let it be done according to the Law.

So let’s make a covenant in front of our God. Let’s promise to send away all these women and their children. That’s what you have advised us to do. Those who respect our God’s commands have given us the same advice. We want to do what the Law says.

Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the Law.

Let us now make a covenant with our God to divorce our pagan wives and to send them away with their children. We will follow the advice given by you and by the others who respect the commands of our God. Let it be done according to the Law of God.

So now let’s make a covenant with our God to send away all the wives and their children, following the counsel of my lord and of those who fear the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the Law.

Now therefore, let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and those who have been born to them, according to the advice of my master and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

Let us therefore make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

Therefore let us enact a covenant with our God to send away all these women and their offspring, in keeping with your counsel, my lord, and that of those who respect the commandments of our God. And let it be done according to the law.

Now therefore let’s make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and those who are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

Everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel gathered around me, because of the unfaithfulness of the exiles, while I sat devastated until the evening offering.

and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.You must not intermarry with them, and you must not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

Also, the power of God was at work in Judah to unite them to carry out the command of the king and his officials by the word of the LORD.

But I( not the Lord) say to the rest: If any brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her.Also, if any woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce her husband.

In view of all this, we are making a binding agreement in writing on a sealed document containing the names of our leaders, Levites, and priests.

I thought about my ways and turned my steps back to your decrees.

I tremble in awe of you; I fear your judgments.

so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which he is making with you today, so that you may enter into his oath

“ Pass throughout the city of Jerusalem,” the LORD said to him,“ and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the detestable practices committed in it.”

join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the law of God given through God’s servant Moses and to obey carefully all the commands, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD our Lord.We will not give our daughters in marriage to the surrounding peoples and will not take their daughters as wives for our sons.When the surrounding peoples bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or a holy day. We will also leave the land uncultivated in the seventh year and will cancel every debt.We will impose the following commands on ourselves: To give an eighth of an ounce of silver yearly for the service of the house of our God:the bread displayed before the LORD, the daily grain offering, the regular burnt offering, the Sabbath and New Moon offerings, the appointed festivals, the holy things, the sin offerings to atone for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.We have cast lots among the priests, Levites, and people for the donation of wood by our ancestral families at the appointed times each year. They are to bring the wood to our God’s house to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law.We will bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the LORD’s house year by year.We will also bring the firstborn of our sons and our livestock, as prescribed by the law, and will bring the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God, to the priests who serve in our God’s house.We will bring a loaf from our first batch of dough to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God. We will also bring the firstfruits of our grain offerings, of every fruit tree, and of the new wine and fresh oil. A tenth of our land’s produce belongs to the Levites, for the Levites are to collect the one-tenth offering in all our agricultural towns.A priest from Aaron’s descendants is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth, and the Levites are to take a tenth of this offering to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God.For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and fresh oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are kept and where the priests who minister are, along with the gatekeepers and singers. We will not neglect the house of our God.

They went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel,“ We have come from a distant land. Please make a treaty with us.”

It is in my heart now to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel so that his burning anger may turn away from us.

At that time the book of Moses was read publicly to the people. The command was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,because they did not meet the Israelites with food and water. Instead, they hired Balaam against them to curse them, but our God turned the curse into a blessing.When they heard the law, they separated all those of mixed descent from Israel.

All of these had married foreign women, and some of the wives had given birth to children.

Go to God’s instruction and testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.

My hand made all these things, and so they all came into being. This is the LORD’s declaration. I will look favorably on this kind of person: one who is humble, submissive in spirit, and trembles at my word.

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and against its inhabitants, and because you humbled yourself before me, and you tore your clothes and wept before me, I myself have heard’— this is the LORD’s declaration.

If you ever turn away and become loyal to the rest of these nations remaining among you, and if you intermarry or associate with them and they with you,know for certain that the LORD your God will not continue to drive these nations out before you. They will become a snare and a trap for you, a sharp stick for your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you disappear from this good land the LORD your God has given you.

Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD, the king, and the people that they would be the LORD’s people and another covenant between the king and the people.

“ Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for those remaining in Israel and Judah, concerning the words of the book that was found. For great is the LORD’s wrath that is poured out on us because our ancestors have not kept the word of the LORD in order to do everything written in this book.”

They found written in the law how the LORD had commanded through Moses that the Israelites should dwell in shelters during the festival of the seventh month.

Then the king stood at his post and made a covenant in the LORD’s presence to follow the LORD and to keep his commands, his decrees, and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul in order to carry out the words of the covenant written in this book.He had all those present in Jerusalem and Benjamin agree to it. So all the inhabitants of Jerusalem carried out the covenant of God, the God of their ancestors.