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==The Word in the Old Testament== | |||
In the Old Testament, the Word of the Lord was the promise of God received either directly from God (in the case of Abraham, Moses, Elisha, and the Prophets), or through the prophets (as in the case of the majority of the children of Israel). In essence, the whole Bible is the word of the LORD. | |||
The "word of the Lord" and the "word of God" are mentioned over 300 times in the Old Testament. Some key scriptures include: | |||
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|style="width:150px"|Genesis 3:8 | |||
|style="width:645px"|And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. | |||
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|Genesis 15:1 | |||
|After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. | |||
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|Numbers 15:31 | |||
|Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him. | |||
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|Deuteronomy 4:2 | |||
|Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. | |||
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|Deuteronomy 18:21-22 | |||
|And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him. | |||
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|Psalms 33:6 | |||
|By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. | |||
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|Psalms 68:11 | |||
|The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it. | |||
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|Psalms 119:123 | |||
|Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness. | |||
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|Proverbs 13:13 | |||
|Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded. | |||
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|Isaiah 40:8 | |||
|The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. | |||
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|Isaiah 45:22-23 | |||
|Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. | |||
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|Jeremiah 22:29 | |||
|O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD. | |||
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|Jeremiah 31:10 | |||
|Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. | |||
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|Ezekiel 33:7 | |||
|So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me. | |||
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|Amos 8:11-12 | |||
|Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. | |||
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|Micah 4:1-2 | |||
|But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. | |||
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|Zechariah 4:6 | |||
|Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. | |||
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