100 Bible Verses About Old Testament
Bible verses about Old Testament
The Old Testament, a sacred tapestry woven with stories of creation, covenant, and prophecy, serves as the bedrock of our faith. Its pages echo with the voice of God, revealing His character, His unwavering love for humanity, and His meticulous plan for redemption. By delving into the Old Testament scriptures, we gain invaluable insight into the roots of our beliefs, the lineage of Jesus, and the enduring promises that shape our spiritual journey. Understanding the Old Testament illuminates the New, deepening our appreciation for God's grace and enriching our connection to the divine narrative that continues to unfold.
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Leviticus 3:16 (KJV)
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the Lord’s.
Old Testament Verses: Understanding the Foundation of Faith
And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.
And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah.
And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram;
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.
And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that lieth before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand unto the inhabitants of En–tappuah.
Ozem the sixth, David the seventh:
Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
And when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
So we abode in the valley over against Beth–peor.
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.
And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the Lord’s.
And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.
And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof:
And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
And they brought their offering before the Lord, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle.
Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
Then he shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the Lord.
(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar:
And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and his men.
And goeth out from Beth–el to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth,
Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.
That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.
And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:
So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.
And the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.
And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.
Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah.
And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:
And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;
And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and all that serveth thereto,
And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof.
And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above that.
Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, was the ruler of the house of God.
And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the Lord struck him, and he died.
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:
And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.
According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work.
And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.
And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Beth–shemesh, and passed on to Timnah:
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:
And the fat of the bullock and of the ram, the rump, and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver:
And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him.
The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah, and Jehu the Antothite,
And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son.
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
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.
The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,
And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the Lord hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;
Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:
And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.
These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:
And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder.
It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.
The Old Testament verses explored here reveal a rich tapestry of history, law, prophecy, and wisdom, all pointing towards God's enduring covenant with humanity. From the creation narrative in Genesis to the prophetic pronouncements of Malachi, these scriptures lay the foundation for understanding God's character, his expectations for his people, and his redemptive plan for the world. Studying these verses allows us to grasp the historical and cultural context of the New Testament, deepening our appreciation for the continuity and fulfillment found in Jesus Christ. Let us reflect on the lessons embedded within these ancient texts, applying their timeless principles of faith, justice, and love to our lives today. The Old Testament is not merely a historical record but a living word, continually speaking to us about God's unwavering faithfulness and our call to live righteously in his sight.