The phrase "make a covenant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in a variety of contexts, such as formal agreements between two parties or when discussing a promise made between two individuals. For example: "The two leaders agreed to make a covenant to end the conflict between their countries."
Principled Republicans and Democrats should make a covenant with the country that fits with what the majority cares about.
Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods".
Samuel tells David that God has promised to make a covenant with him and his royal descendants will rule as kings forever.
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will establish them, and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in the midst of them for ever.
Crewe said: I have labored to make a covenant with myself, that affection may not press upon judgment; for I suppose there is no man that hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness, but his affection stands to the continuance of a house so illustrious, and would take hold of a twig or twine-thread to support it.
Or Angle may have been inspired by another self-proclaimed Mama Grizzly, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who as early as September, 2009, exhorted her fellow freedom fighters to "man-up" and make a covenant by slitting their wrists and becoming blood brothers in their fight against Obamacare.
"If I hadn't made a covenant," he said, "I would have left".
He deplored the Jews' claim that God had made a covenant with them exclusively — that they were a chosen people.
"We made a covenant, the three of us, that by the end of the summer 2008, we would go to Afghanistan," he said.
Beersheba is first mentioned as the site where Abraham, founder of the Jewish people, made a covenant with the Philistine king Abimelech of Gerar (Genesis 21).
Because of the course of events, the Israelites asked David to become king over all of Israel, and David made a covenant with the elders of northern Israel.
