Aliança
A aliança é o modo como Deus se relaciona com seu povo. Da aliança com Noé à Nova Aliança em Cristo, Deus se compromete com amor e fidelidade irrevogáveis.
Alianças com Israel
Deus firmou aliança com Abraão, Moisés e Davi. No arco-íris, na lei, nas promessas — Ele é o Deus da aliança.
8 And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;10 and with every living soul which is with you, fowl as well as cattle, and all the animals of the earth with you, of all that has gone out of the ark-every animal of the earth.11 And I establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood, and henceforth there shall be no flood to destroy the earth.12 And God said, This is the sign of the covenant that I set between me and you and every living soul that is with you, for everlasting generations:13 I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
11 And I establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood, and henceforth there shall be no flood to destroy the earth.
13 I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
18 On the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates;19 the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,20 and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim,21 and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
3 And Abram fell on his face; and God talked with him, saying,4 It is I: behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of a multitude of nations.5 And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of a multitude of nations have I made thee.6 And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.8 And I give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be a God to them.9 And God said to Abraham, And {as for} thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee in their generations.10 This is my covenant which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee-that every male among you be circumcised.11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and {that} shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.
5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-Kirjathaim,
5 And now, if ye will hearken to my voice indeed and keep my covenant, then shall ye be my own possession out of all the peoples-for all the earth is mine-
31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the river; for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, that thou mayest dispossess them from before thee.32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels that have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people in the midst of which thou {art} shall see the work of Jehovah; for a terrible thing it shall be that I will do with thee.
28 -And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread, and drank no water. -And he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant, the ten words.
28 -And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread, and drank no water. -And he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant, the ten words.
13 And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, the ten words; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.
9 And thou shalt know that Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful *God, who keepeth covenant and mercy to a thousand generations with them that love him and keep his commandments;
Alianças renovadas
O povo renovava a aliança diante do Senhor. A fidelidade de Deus permanece mesmo quando o povo falha.
14 And it came to pass when the people removed from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, that the priests bearing the ark of the covenant were before the people;15 and when they that bore the ark were come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark dipped in the edge of the water (and the Jordan is full over all its banks throughout the days of harvest),16 the waters which flowed down from above stood {and} rose up in a heap, very far, by Adam, the city that is beside Zaretan; and those that flowed down towards the sea of the plain, the salt sea, were completely cut off. And the people went over opposite to Jericho.17 And the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan. And all Israel went over on dry ground, until all the nation had completely gone over the Jordan.
17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between Jehovah and the king and the people, that they should be the people of Jehovah; and between the king and the people.
3 And the king stood on the dais, and made a covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all {his} heart, and with all {his} soul, to establish the words of this covenant that are written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
6 And at that time king Jehoram went out of Samaria and inspected all Israel.7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah saying, The king of Moab has rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
16 And Jonathan made {a covenant} with the house of David, {saying,} Let Jehovah even require {it} at the hand of David's enemies!17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again, by the love he had for him, for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
10 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.12 Therefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace!13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.
89 And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with Him, then he heard the voice speaking to him from off the mercy-seat which was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubim; and he spoke to Him.
1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of them a staff, a staff for each father's house, of all their princes according to the houses of their fathers, twelve staves: thou shalt write each one's name upon his staff.3 And Aaron's name shalt thou write upon the staff of Levi; for one staff shall be for {each} head of their fathers' houses.4 And thou shalt lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.5 And it shall come to pass, that the man whom I shall choose, his staff shall bud forth; and I will make to cease from before me the murmurings of the children of Israel, that they murmur against you.6 And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and all their princes gave him a staff, one staff for each prince according to their fathers' houses, twelve staves, and the staff of Aaron was among their staves.7 And Moses laid the staves before Jehovah in the tent of the testimony.8 And it came to pass, when on the morrow Moses went into the tent of the testimony, behold, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and ripened almonds.9 And Moses brought out all the staves from before Jehovah to all the children of Israel, and they looked and took each one his staff.10 And Jehovah said to Moses, Bring Aaron's staff again before the testimony, to be kept as a token for the sons of rebellion, that thou mayest put an end to their murmurings before me, that they may not die.11 And Moses did so: as Jehovah had commanded him, so did he.
12 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of Jehovah; and Jehovah strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they did evil in the sight of Jehovah.13 And he gathered to him the children of Ammon and Amalek and went and smote Israel, and they took possession of the city of palm-trees.
Nova Aliança
Eis que dias vêm em que farei nova aliança. Jesus é mediador de uma aliança superior, fundamentada em melhores promessas.
31 Behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of my taking them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah.33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and will write it in their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will pardon their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.
20 Thus saith Jehovah: If ye can break my covenant {in respect} of the day, and my covenant {in respect} of the night, so that there should not be day and night in their season,21 {then} shall also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites, the priests, my ministers.
15 And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
15 And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
6 But now he has got a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is mediator of a better covenant, which is established on the footing of better promises.
20 But the God of peace, who brought again from among {the} dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, in {the power of the} blood of {the} eternal covenant,21 perfect you in every good work to the doing of his will, doing in you what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ; to whom {be} glory for the ages of ages. Amen.
6 who has also made us competent, {as} ministers of {the} new covenant; not of letter, but of spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit quickens.
24 Which things have an allegorical sense; for these are two covenants: one from mount Sinai, gendering to bondage, which is Hagar.25 For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which {is} now, for she is in bondage with her children;26 but the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.
Fidelidade da aliança
A aliança de Deus é eterna. Ele não quebra seu pacto nem altera o que saiu dos seus lábios.
17 But the loving-kindness of Jehovah is from everlasting and to everlasting, upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children,18 To such as keep his covenant and to those that remember his precepts to do them.
21 And as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith Jehovah: My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith Jehovah, from henceforth and for ever.
25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell in safety in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
8 And Jehovah, he it is that goeth before thee: he will be with thee; he will not leave thee, nor forsake thee; fear not, neither be dismayed.
27 And he shall confirm a covenant with the many {for} one week; and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and because of the protection of abominations {there shall be} a desolator, even until that the consumption and what is determined shall be poured out upon the desolate.
5 And the king of the south, who is one of his princes, shall be strong; but {another} shall be stronger than he, and have dominion: his dominion shall be a great dominion.6 And after the course of years they shall join affinity; and the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make equitable conditions: but she shall not retain the strength of her arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm; and she shall be given up, she and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in {those} times.
16 And he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him; and he shall stand in the land of beauty, and destruction shall be in his hand.17 And he shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; and he shall practise; and he shall give him the daughter of women, to corrupt her; but she shall not stand, neither shall she be for him.
1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?
16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words;17 who forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God;