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So if you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commandments, just as your father David did, I will prolong your days.”

May He incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances He commanded our fathers.

So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments.”

And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,

They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.

And you must always be careful to observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments He wrote for you. Do not worship other gods.

He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

Then you will succeed, if you carefully follow the statutes and ordinances that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged.

And give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and carry out all Your commandments, decrees, and statutes, and to build Your palace for which I have made provision.”

And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,

For every dispute that comes before you from your brothers who dwell in their cities—whether it regards bloodshed or some other violation of law, commandments, statutes, or ordinances—you are to warn them, so that they will not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath will not come upon you and your brothers. Do this, and you will not incur guilt.

I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to leave the land that I assigned to your fathers, if only they are careful to do all that I have commanded them through Moses—all the laws, statutes, and judgments.”

So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the male and female singers recite laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Book of Laments.

For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, to practice it, and to teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.

This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes had given to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in the commandments and statutes of the LORD to Israel:

We have behaved corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that You gave Your servant Moses.

You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.

You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.

…hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His servant Moses and to obey carefully all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD our Lord.

Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,

If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!

I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.

For He carries out His decree against me, and He has many such plans.

He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

…when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,

…when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the LORD: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.

To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?

Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!

For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

Can a corrupt throne be Your ally—one devising mischief by decree?

He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them.

He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

…that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!

Oh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes!

I will keep Your statutes; do not utterly forsake me.

Blessed are You, O LORD; teach me Your statutes.

Though rulers sit and slander me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.

I recounted my ways, and You answered me; teach me Your statutes.

Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep them to the end.

I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.

Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.

The earth is filled with Your loving devotion, O LORD; teach me Your statutes.

You are good, and You do what is good; teach me Your statutes.

It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.

May my heart be blameless in Your statutes, that I may not be put to shame.

Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.

I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes, even to the very end.

Uphold me, and I will be saved, that I may always regard Your statutes.