And thou saidst in thy heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit in the mountain of the covenant, in the sides of the north.
The ways are made desolate, no one passeth by the road, the covenant is made void, he hath rejected the cities, he hath not regarded the men.
He shall shew forth the discipline he hath learned, and shall glory in the law of the covenant of the Lord.
Every Christian should read the appalling account of these sufferings, recently published under the title of Ladies of the Covenant.
It was therefore both a logical and a practical necessity which constrained the Conference, after enunciating the principles of peace in the Covenant, to deal next with their application to Germany.
Reflection tended, moreover, to mitigate some of the objections to the Covenant, though various of its details were modified in response to criticism.
But forasmuch as this we have not now, he tells us when we shall have it; namely, when we shall become perfect, that we may be made the inheritors of the covenant of the Lord.
And Moses understood that they had again set up a molten image: and he cast the two tables out of his hands; and the tables of the covenant of the Lord were broken.
And so are all the Syrians and Arabians, and all the idolatrous priests: but are they therefore of the covenant of Israel?
Ye see of whom he appointed it, that they should be the first people, and heirs of the covenant.
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
At the end of March (four whole months consequently from the framing of the covenant), the whole state council assembled in Brussels.
At this entertainment three hundred persons gave in their adhesion to the covenant, and the question was mooted whether the whole body should present themselves before the regent armed or unarmed, with a declaration or with a petition?
Soon after him, Count Egmont delivered to the regent a copy of the covenant, and also gave her the names of the conspirators, with some few exceptions.
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.
He knew the elect as it were by instinct, and could have told you of all those in his own, and some neighbouring parishes, who were born within the boundaries of the covenant of promise, and who were not.
How dreadful is it to think of our darling being still without the pale of the covenant!
But then the evidence that this Book of the Covenant, and even the ten commandments as given in Exodus, were known to the Israelites of the time of Samuel and Saul, is (to say the least) by no means conclusive.
That the moral standard of Tongan life was less elevated than that indicated in the "Book of the Covenant" (Exod.
So I took the Torah and sware strong oath I would hold to the covenant made by both.
And they answered as with one voice, "O our lord and ruler over us, we are of the covenant of Solomon son of David (on the twain be Peace!
Then he turned to the Persian and bespoke him softly, saying, "O my father, what fashion is this and where is the covenant of bread and salt and the oath thou swarest to me?
It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.
He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
God said to Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.
And the good faith ofthe covenant was at last admitted by the non-Mormons of Utah and endorsed by their trust.
You were born in the covenant, and the condemnation is more severe upon one who has the birthright than upon one not of the faith who fights against the authority of God's servants.
The Presbyterians spoke in vain of the Covenant; the more moderate found themselves little heeded when they spoke of taking securities before the King was restored.
This created bitter opposition when the Bill was sent back to the Lords, and the discussion mainly turned upon the express repudiation of the Covenant, to which many laymen had already sworn.
The Covenant, the orthodox standards of Presbyterianism, nay even the foundations of religion, were subjects of his mockery.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the covenant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
