125 Bible Verses About Divine Instruction

Divine instruction, etched within the sacred pages, offers more than mere guidance; it is the very blueprint for a life aligned with eternal wisdom. To seek these divine words is to open the heart and mind to the light necessary for navigating existence's complexities. Scripture serves as the vessel for this celestial wisdom, revealing God's will and His enduring desire for humanity's flourishing. Immersing ourselves in these truths grants not only understanding but the spiritual strength required to live out the divine call, ensuring our steps lead toward grace and purpose. This pursuit is the profound relevance of scripture's voice for our souls.

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All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the Lord, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.

Bible Verses About Divine Instruction

And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

Genesis 16:9KJV

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.

Genesis 22:3KJV

And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:

Genesis 26:2KJV

There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

Genesis 7:9KJV

And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

Genesis 6:19KJV

And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

Genesis 17:15KJV

And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

Genesis 22:9KJV

Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

Genesis 6:22KJV

And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

Genesis 21:12KJV

Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

Genesis 45:19KJV

And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:

Exodus 4:4KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 6:13KJV

Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land.

Exodus 7:2KJV

And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.

Exodus 8:25KJV

And the Lord said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.

Exodus 9:8KJV

This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

Exodus 12:2KJV

According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.

Exodus 25:9KJV

And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

Exodus 24:12KJV

And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.

Exodus 25:13KJV

And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.

Exodus 25:14KJV

The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.

Exodus 25:15KJV

Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

Exodus 25:23KJV

And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.

Exodus 25:28KJV

And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them.

Exodus 25:29KJV

And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.

Exodus 25:16KJV

The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.

Exodus 26:8KJV

And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.

Exodus 26:9KJV

Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.

Exodus 26:5KJV

And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.

Exodus 26:10KJV

And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.

Exodus 26:11KJV

And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.

Exodus 26:19KJV

And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

Exodus 26:26KJV

And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.

Exodus 26:27KJV

And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.

Exodus 26:29KJV

And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.

Exodus 26:30KJV

And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.

Exodus 26:32KJV

And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.

Exodus 26:36KJV

And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.

Exodus 27:1KJV

Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

Exodus 27:8KJV

And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

Exodus 27:12KJV

And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.

Exodus 27:13KJV

The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.

Exodus 27:18KJV

And two chains of pure gold at the ends; of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.

Exodus 28:14KJV

And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.

Exodus 28:17KJV

And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold.

Exodus 28:22KJV

And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.

Exodus 28:24KJV

And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it.

Exodus 28:25KJV

And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.

Exodus 28:27KJV

And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:

Exodus 28:33KJV

And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.

Exodus 28:37KJV

And for Aaron’s sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.

Exodus 28:40KJV

A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same.

Exodus 30:2KJV

And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.

Exodus 30:31KJV

Upon man’s flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.

Exodus 30:32KJV

And the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:

Exodus 30:34KJV

And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:

Exodus 32:7KJV

And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.

Exodus 34:3KJV

And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

Exodus 34:27KJV

And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which the Lord hath commanded, that ye should do them.

Exodus 35:1KJV

And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord commanded, saying,

Exodus 35:4KJV

And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.

Exodus 36:20KJV

And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.

Exodus 36:28KJV

And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.

Exodus 36:8KJV

And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.

Exodus 36:33KJV

And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four corners that were in the four feet thereof.

Exodus 37:13KJV

And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:

Exodus 37:10KJV

And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.

Exodus 37:15KJV

And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.

Exodus 37:25KJV

And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.

Exodus 38:6KJV

And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.

Exodus 38:5KJV

And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

Exodus 39:2KJV

And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.

Exodus 39:20KJV

And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen,

Exodus 39:28KJV

And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the mitre; as the Lord commanded Moses.

Exodus 39:31KJV

Thus did Moses: according to all that the Lord commanded him, so did he.

Exodus 40:16KJV

And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the Lord commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:19KJV

And he lighted the lamps before the Lord; as the Lord commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:25KJV

And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, even upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the Lord commanded Moses.

Leviticus 8:9KJV

So Aaron and his sons did all things which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.

Leviticus 8:36KJV

And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.

Leviticus 10:11KJV

And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:

Leviticus 14:13KJV

To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.

Leviticus 14:57KJV

Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them; This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, saying,

Leviticus 17:2KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Leviticus 20:1KJV

And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord.

Leviticus 24:6KJV

And Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded.

Numbers 3:16KJV

All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the Lord, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.

Numbers 3:39KJV

And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put to the staves thereof:

Numbers 4:11KJV

And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the Lord spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.

Numbers 5:4KJV

When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

Numbers 10:6KJV

Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.

Numbers 16:37KJV

To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the Lord; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the Lord said to him by the hand of Moses.

Numbers 16:40KJV

And Moses brought out all the rods from before the Lord unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.

Numbers 17:9KJV

And Moses did so: as the Lord commanded him, so did he.

Numbers 17:11KJV

And Moses took the rod from before the Lord, as he commanded him.

Numbers 20:9KJV

And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.

Numbers 23:2KJV

And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

Numbers 23:30KJV

And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.

Numbers 35:5KJV

On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,

Deuteronomy 1:5KJV

And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.

Deuteronomy 1:18KJV

And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.

Deuteronomy 2:19KJV

Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.

Deuteronomy 4:5KJV

And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.

Deuteronomy 4:14KJV

Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.

Deuteronomy 5:30KJV

Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:

Deuteronomy 6:1KJV

At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.

Deuteronomy 10:1KJV

And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.

Deuteronomy 10:3KJV

Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee:

Deuteronomy 16:5KJV

Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Deuteronomy 20:15KJV

Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.

Deuteronomy 24:8KJV

When all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

Deuteronomy 31:11KJV

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

Deuteronomy 32:2KJV

And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.

Joshua 6:4KJV

At that time the Lord said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.

Joshua 5:2KJV

And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.

Joshua 6:10KJV

As the Lord commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that the Lord commanded Moses.

Joshua 11:15KJV

Then Manoah intreated the Lord, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.

Judges 13:8KJV

And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.

1 Samuel 20:19KJV

Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?

2 Samuel 7:5KJV

In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?

2 Samuel 7:7KJV

And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither.

1 Kings 2:36KJV

And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.

1 Kings 7:27KJV

For so was it charged me by the word of the Lord, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.

1 Kings 13:9KJV

For it was said to me by the word of the Lord, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.

1 Kings 13:17KJV

And the Lord said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:

1 Kings 19:15KJV

The sacred texts presented unveil a fundamental truth: God is not silent but continuously imparts instruction to guide our steps and shape our souls. These verses are more than historical records; they are echoes of the living Word, urging us towards a posture of attentive listening. True wisdom and righteousness spring from heeding this divine counsel, which illuminates our path, corrects our errors, and calls us to a life aligned with His purpose. To receive this precious gift requires cultivating an interior silence, a willingness to quiet the clamor of the world and the self, that we may discern the subtle, persistent voice that speaks truth and life. Let us embrace this divine school, where humility and attentiveness are the keys to unlocking the profound guidance necessary for holiness and effective service.