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Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Joshua 8:33 OT

  All Israel, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests, who carried the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and…

• Joshua 23:2 OT

  Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, “I am old and well advanced in years.

• Joshua 23:3 OT

  You have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is Yahweh your God who has fought for you.

• Joshua 23:6 OT

  “Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn away from it to the right hand or to the left;

• Joshua 24:1 OT

  Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

• Joshua 24:24 OT

  The people said to Joshua, “We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice.”

• Joshua 24:25 OT

  So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

• Judges 21:16-25 OT

  Then the elders of the congregation said, “How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?” They said, “There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be…

• Acts 5:17 NT

  But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

• Acts 5:18 NT

  and laid hands on the apostles, then put them in public custody.

• Acts 5:21-41 NT

  When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to…

• 1 Samuel 8:4-10 OT

  Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel to Ramah. They said to him, “Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.” But the thing…

• 1 Samuel 8:19-22 OT

  But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we will have a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.” Samuel…

• 1 Samuel 15:30 OT

  Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.”

• 2 Samuel 5:3 OT

  So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 11:3 OT

  So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to Yahweh’s word by Samuel.

• 2 Samuel 12:17 OT

  The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them.

• 1 Chronicles 15:25 OT

  So David, the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up out of the house of Obed-Edom with joy.

• 1 Chronicles 21:16 OT

  David lifted up his eyes, and saw Yahweh’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

• 2 Samuel 17:4 OT

  The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

• 2 Samuel 19:11 OT

  King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house.

• 1 Kings 8:1-3 OT

  Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city,…

• 2 Chronicles 5:2-4 OT

  Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion. So…

• 1 Kings 12:6-8 OT

  King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to answer these people?” They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will…