And You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from the heavens, and gave them righteous judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.
Esther had not revealed her kindred or her people, as Mordecai had commanded her. For Esther obeyed Mordecai’s command, as she did when she was being brought up by him.
The words of Jonadab, the son of Rechab are done, in which he commanded his sons not to drink wine. And to this day they do not drink, but obey their father’s command. But I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, and you did not listen to Me.
And Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed your father Jonadab’s command, and have kept all his commands, and have done according to all that he has commanded you,
And we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, to all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, and our daughters,
Who is wise and discerns these things? Who is discerning and knows them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the righteous one shall walk in them; but those transgressing shall stumble in them.
And be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, in order to prove by you what is the good and pleasing and perfect will of God.
that you may receive her in the Lord, as is worthy of the saints, and may assist her in whatever thing she may need of you. For she also became a helper of many, and of me myself.
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not listen to his father’s voice, or his mother’s voice; even though they discipline him, he will not listen to them;
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to be godly to their own house and to make a return payment to their forefathers, for this is good and pleasing before God.
And David rose up early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper, and took the things, and went, as Jesse commanded him. And he came to the barricade, and to the army which was going out to the battle array; and they were shouting for battle.