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Covenant: Binding Joshua 9:18–20

But the Israelites did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn an oath to them by the LORD, the God of Israel. And the whole congregation grumbled against the leaders. / All the leaders answered, “We have sworn an oath to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we cannot touch them. / This is how we will treat them: We will let them live, so that no wrath will fall on us because of the oath we swore to them.”

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Covenant: Binding Jeremiah 34:8–21

After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD / that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage. / So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them,

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Covenant: Binding Ezekiel 17:14–18

so that the kingdom would be brought low, unable to lift itself up, surviving only by keeping his covenant. / But this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and yet escape?’ / ‘As surely as I live,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘he will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who enthroned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke.

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Covenant: Binding Galatians 3:15

Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended.

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Covenant: Binding, not Only on Those Who Make Them, but on Those Who are Represented Deuteronomy 29:14, 15

I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you, / but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God, as well as with those who are not here today.

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