Theocracy, The, or Immediate Government By God

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Exodus 19:4-6 OT

  ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples;…

• 1 Samuel 8:7 OT

  Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.

• Exodus 6:6 OT

  Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments.

• Exodus 6:7 OT

  I will take you to myself for a people. I will be your God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

• 2 Samuel 7:23 OT

  What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you…

• Isaiah 43:3 OT

  For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

• Deuteronomy 26:17-19 OT

  You have declared today that Yahweh is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice. Yahweh has declared today that you are a people for his own possession,…

• Exodus 20:1 OT

  God spoke all these words, saying,

• Exodus 40:36 OT

  When the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys;

• Exodus 40:37 OT

  but if the cloud wasn’t taken up, then they didn’t travel until the day that it was taken up.

• Numbers 9:17-23 OT

  Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel traveled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped. At the commandment of Yahweh, the children of Israel…

• Exodus 17:14-16 OT

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.” Moses built an altar, and called its name “Yahweh our Banner”. He…

• Numbers 31:1 OT

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Numbers 31:2 OT

  “Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”

• Joshua 6:2 OT

  Yahweh said to Joshua, “Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor.

• Joshua 6:3 OT

  All of your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days.

• Joshua 8:1 OT

  Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.

• Exodus 3:10 OT

  Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”

• Numbers 27:18 OT

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.

• Numbers 27:20 OT

  You shall give authority to him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey.

• Exodus 28:1 OT

  “Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office: Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

• Exodus 40:12-15 OT

  “You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water. You shall put on Aaron the holy garments; and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s…

• Numbers 9:8-11 OT

  Moses answered them, “Wait, that I may hear what Yahweh will command concerning you.” Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “Say to the children of Israel, ‘If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a…

• Numbers 15:34 OT

  They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.