Sentence examples for making a covenant from inspiring English sources

Milton's essentially making a covenant.

Accordingly, "The covenant, made manifest in a symbol [the patient encounter- our interpretation], and its performance (the particular will) are quite distinct" [ 20], but, "in a contract, to be sure, making a covenant entails the right to require its performance" [ 20].

Tell your child that Abraham became the first Jew by making a covenant with God.

"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.

All revelation from Adam to Muhammad is regarded by Muslims as a unit, mediated through a series of prophets, or messengers, with whom God made a covenant: Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus.

After the Flood, God blesses Noah and bestows on human beings the earth and the things on it for sustenance and makes a covenant with Noah and all creatures that he will never again unleash a world-destroying flood.

Most Tuvaluans are Evangelical Christians, and the Bible verse they quoted most frequently was Genesis 9 11, in which God makes a covenant with Noah: "Never shall there any more be a flood to destroy the Earth".