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.
Also the Lord said these things to Noah, and to his sons with him,
Lo! I shall make my covenant with you, and with your seed after you,
and to each living soul which is with you, as well in birds as in work beasts and small beasts of [the] earth, and to all things that went out of the ship, and to all unreasonable beasts of [the] earth.
I shall make my covenant with you, and each flesh shall no more be slain of the waters of the great flood, neither the great flood destroying all [the] earth shall be any more.
And God said, This is the sign of bond of peace, which I give between me and you, and to each living soul which is with you, into everlasting generations.
I shall set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of bond of peace between me and [the] earth;
I shall make my covenant with you, and each flesh shall no more be slain of the waters of the great flood, neither the great flood destroying all [the] earth shall be any more.
I shall set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of bond of peace between me and [the] earth;
In that day the Lord made a covenant of peace with Abram, and said, I shall give to thy seed this land, from the river of Egypt till to the great river Euphrates;
the lands of the Kenites, and Kenizzites, and Kadmonites,
and Hittites, and Perizzites, and Rephaims,
and Amorites, and Canaanites, and Girgashites, and Jebusites.
And Abram felled down low on his face. And God said to him,
I am, and my covenant of peace is with thee, and thou shalt be the father of many folks;
and thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thou shalt be called Abraham, for I have made thee [the] father of many folks;
and I shall make thee to wax full greatly, and I shall set thee in folks, and kings shall go out of thee;
and I shall make my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee, in their generations, by everlasting bond of peace, that I be thy God, and of thy seed after thee;
and I shall give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy pilgrimage, all the land of Canaan, into everlasting possession, and I shall be the God of them.
God said again to Abraham, And therefore thou shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee, in their generations.
This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, betwixt me and you, and thy seed after thee; each male kind of you shall be circumcised,
and ye shall circumcise the flesh of your man’s rod, that it be into a sign of bond of peace betwixt me and you.
Therefore Chedorlaomer came in the fourteenth year, and [the] kings that were with him, and they smited Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and Zuzims with them, and Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
Therefore if ye shall hear my voice, and shall keep my covenant, ye shall be to me into a specialty of all peoples, that is, a thing loved excellently; for all the earth is mine;
Forsooth and I shall set thy terms from the Red Sea till to the sea of Palestines, and from the desert till to the flood. I shall give into your hands the dwellers of the land, and I shall cast them out from your sight;
thou shalt not make bond of peace with them, neither with their gods.
The Lord answered, I shall make covenant, and in sight of all men I shall make signs, that were never seen on [the] earth, neither in any folks, that this people, in whose midst thou art, see the fearedful work of the Lord, that I shall make.
Therefore Moses was there with the Lord by forty days and forty nights, and he ate not bread, and drank not water; and he wrote in [the] tables the ten words of the bond of peace.
Therefore Moses was there with the Lord by forty days and forty nights, and he ate not bread, and drank not water; and he wrote in [the] tables the ten words of the bond of peace.
And he showed to you his covenant, which he commanded that ye should do, and [the] ten words, which he wrote in two tables of stone.
And thou shalt know, that thy Lord God himself is a strong God, and faithful, and keepeth covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments, into a thousand generations;
Alianças renovadas
O povo renovava a aliança diante do Senhor. A fidelidade de Deus permanece mesmo quando o povo falha.
Therefore the people went out of their tabernacles for to pass over the Jordan; and the priests that bare the ark of [the] bond of peace went before the people.
And when the priests entered into the Jordan, and their feet were dipped in the part of [the] water; forsooth the Jordan had filled the brinks of his trough in the time of ripe corn;
the waters went down, and stood in one place, and waxed great at the likeness of an hill, and appeared far from the city that was called Adam, till to the place of Zaretan; soothly the waters that were lower went down into the sea of wilderness, which is now called the Dead Sea, till the waters failed utterly. Forsooth the people went through the Jordan;
and the priests, that bare the ark of the bond of peace of the Lord, stood girded on the dry earth in the midst of the Jordan, and all the people passed [over] through the dry trough.
Therefore Jehoiada made bond of peace betwixt the Lord and the king, and betwixt the people, that it should be the people of the Lord; and betwixt the king and the people.
And the king stood on the degrees; and smote a bond of peace before the Lord, that they would go after the Lord, and keep his commandments and witnessings and ceremonies in all their heart and in all their soul, and that they should raise up the words of this bond of peace, that were written in that book; and the people assented to the covenant.
Therefore king Joram went out of Samaria in that day, and numbered all Israel.
And he sent to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, and said, The king of Moab hath gone away from me; come thou with me against him to battle. And Jehoshaphat answered, I shall go up with thee; he that is mine, is thine; my people is thy people; and mine horses be thine horses.
Therefore Jonathan made [a] bond of peace with the house of David, and the Lord sought it of the hand of [the] enemies of David.
And Jonathan added to swear steadfastly to David, for he loved him; for he loved so David, as his own soul.
And the Lord said to Moses,
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, priest, hath turned away my wrath from the sons of Israel; for he was moved against them by my fervent love, that, I myself not do away the sons of Israel in my great ferventness of vengeance.
Therefore speak thou to him, Lo! I give to him the peace of my covenant,
and it shall be an everlasting covenant of priesthood, as well to himself as to his seed; for he loved fervently for his God, and he hath cleansed the great trespass of the sons of Israel.
And when Moses entered into the tabernacle of [the] bond of peace, to ask counsel of God’s answering place, he heard the voice of God speaking to him from the propitiatory, which was on the ark of witnessing, betwixt [the] two cherubims, from whence also God spake to Moses.
And the Lord spake to Moses, saying,
Speak thou to the sons of Israel, and take thou rods, by their kindreds, by each kindred one rod, take thou of all the princes of the lineages twelve rods; and thou shalt write the name of each lineage upon his rod;
soothly the name of Aaron shall be written in the lineage of Levi, and one rod shall contain all the meines of Levi.
And thou shalt put those rods in the tabernacle of [the] bond of peace, before the witnessing, where I shall speak with thee;
the rod of him shall burgeon, whom I shall choose of them to the office of priesthood; and I shall thereby refrain, or quench, from me the complainings, or grutchings, of the sons of Israel, by which they grutch against you.
And Moses spake to the sons of Israel; and all the princes gave to him rods, by all their lineages; and the rods were twelve, without the rod of Aaron.
And when Moses had put those rods before the Lord, in the tabernacle of witnessing,
he went again in the day pursuing [or following], and found that the rod of Aaron, in the house of Levi, had burgeoned; and when [the] knops were great, the blossoms had broken out, which were alarged in leaves, and were formed into almonds.
Therefore Moses brought forth all the rods from the sight of the Lord to all the sons of Israel; and they saw, and received each his rod.
And the Lord said to Moses, Bear thou again the rod of Aaron into the tabernacle of witnessing, that it be kept there into a token of the rebel sons of Israel, and that their complainings, or grutchings, cease from me, lest they die.
And Moses did, as the Lord commanded.
Forsooth the sons of Israel added to do evil in the sight of the Lord; and he comforted against them Eglon, the king of Moab, for they did evil in the sight of the Lord.
And the Lord coupled to him the sons of Ammon and Amalek; and he went, and smote Israel, and had in possession the city of Palms.
Nova Aliança
Eis que dias vêm em que farei nova aliança. Jesus é mediador de uma aliança superior, fundamentada em melhores promessas.
Lo! days come, saith the Lord, and I shall smite a new bond of peace to the house of Israel, and to the house of Judah;
not by the covenant which I made with your fathers, in the day in which I took the hand of them, to lead them out of the land of Egypt, the covenant which they made void; and I was Lord of them, saith the Lord.
But this shall be the covenant, which I shall smite with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I shall give my law in the entrails of them, and I shall write it in the heart of them, and I shall be into God to them, and they shall be into a people to me.
And a man shall no more teach his neighbour, and a man his brother, and say, Know thou the Lord; for all shall know me, from the least of them unto the most, saith the Lord; for I shall be merciful to the wickednesses of them, and I shall no more be mindful on the sin of them.
The Lord saith these things, If my covenant with the day, and my covenant with the night, may be made void, that the day and the night be not in his time;
and my covenant with David, my servant, may be voided, that of him be no son, that shall reign in his throne, and no deacons, and priests, my ministers;
And therefore he is a mediator of the new testament, that by death falling betwixt, into redemption of the trespassings that were under the former testament, they that be called take the behest of everlasting heritage.
And therefore he is a mediator of the new testament, that by death falling betwixt, into redemption of the trespassings that were under the former testament, they that be called take the behest of everlasting heritage.
But now he hath gotten a better ministry, by so much as he is a mediator of a better testament, which is confirmed with better promises.
And God of peace, that led out from death the great shepherd of sheep, in the blood of [the] ever-lasting testament, our Lord Jesus Christ,
shape you in all good thing [or make you able in each good work], that ye do the will of him; and he do in you that thing that shall please before him, by Jesus Christ, to whom be glory into worlds of worlds. Amen.
Which also made us able ministers of the new testament, not by letter, but by Spirit; for the letter slayeth, but the Spirit quickeneth.
The which things be said by another understanding [or allegory]. For these be two testaments; one in the hill of Sinai [or mount Sinai], engendering into servage, which is Agar.
For Sinai is an hill that is in Arabia, which hill is joined to it that is now Jerusalem, and serveth with her children.
But that Jerusalem that is 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.
But the mercy of the Lord is from without beginning, and till into with-out end; on men dreading him. And his rightfulness [or rightwiseness]is into the sons of sons;
to them that keep his testament. And be mindful of his command-ments; to do those [or them].
This is my bond of peace with them, saith the Lord; My spirit which is in thee, and my words which I have set in thy mouth, shall not go away from thy mouth, and from the mouth of thy seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and till into without end.
And I shall make with them a covenant of peace, and I shall make [the] worst beasts to cease from [the] earth; and they that dwell in desert, shall sleep secure in forests.
And the Lord himself, which is your leader, shall be with thee, he shall not leave [thee], neither forsake thee; do not thou dread outwardly, neither dread thou in heart.
Forsooth one week of years shall confirm the covenant to many men, and the offering and sacrifice shall fail in the midst of the week of years; and abomination of desolation shall be in the temple, and the desolation shall continue till to the performing and end.
And the king of the south shall be comforted; and of the princes of him, one shall have power above him, and he shall be lord in power; for why his lordship shall be much.
And after the end of years they shall be knit in peace; and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north, to make friendship. And she shall not get strength of arm, neither the seed of her shall stand; and she shall be betaken, and the younglings of her that brought her, and he that comforted her in these times.
And he shall come [up] on him, and shall do by his will; and none shall be that shall stand against his face. And he shall stand in the noble land, and it shall be wasted in his hand.
And he shall set his face, that he come to hold all the realm of him, and he shall do rightful things with him. And he shall give to him the daughter of women, to destroy him; and it shall not stand, and it shall not be his.
I made [a] covenant with mine eyes, that I should not think on a virgin.
That thou be delivered from an alien woman, and from a strange woman, that maketh soft her words;
and forsaketh the duke of her time of marriage, and hath forgotten the covenant of her God.