100 Bible Verses About Order
Bible verses about Order
The Bible reveals that God is a God of order, not chaos. Understanding this principle through scripture brings peace and clarity to our lives. From the creation narrative to the structure of the early church, we see divine order woven into the fabric of existence. These verses offer guidance on establishing order in our personal lives, relationships, and communities. By aligning ourselves with God's ordained structure, we can experience greater harmony, purpose, and effectiveness. Let us embrace the wisdom found within these passages, allowing them to shape our perspectives and actions as we seek to reflect God's orderly nature in all we do.
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Psalms 105:20 (KJV)
The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.
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And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king’s friend:
And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the Lord every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.
Jarmuth with her suburbs, En–gannim with her suburbs; four cities.
And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:
The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.
And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.
The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the Lord hath commanded;
And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the Lord commanded Moses.
And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee.
And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder.
The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:
And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.
And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.
Then were the king’s scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.
And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.
And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.
Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
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.
These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.
And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren.
And the Lord sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.
For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
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 will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.
Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
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,
But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
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,
Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save only with the king of Israel.
And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the Lord. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
At the appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens, and in all their service: and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burdens.
Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:
And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,
The ninth to Mattaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the Lord, and for the porch of the house.
And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.
And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon.
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;
A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.
And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?
In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the Lord taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the Lord shall take shall come by households; and the household which the Lord shall take shall come man by man.
And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns passed on before the Lord, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the Lord followed them.
And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.
Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king’s son in law.
When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:
The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread,
When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:
And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord’s anointed?
And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the side of the ephod inward.
And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.
And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.
And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth:
And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.
All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four.
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.
Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God.
In conclusion, the Bible consistently emphasizes the importance of order, not as a rigid constraint, but as a pathway to flourishing and reflecting God's own character. From the creation narrative to the establishment of societal structures and spiritual practices, order provides a framework for productivity, peace, and effective service. These verses reveal that embracing order involves respecting authority, adhering to established guidelines, and cultivating self-discipline. By reflecting on these principles, we can strive to implement order in our personal lives, relationships, and communities. Ultimately, embracing God's design for order allows us to experience His blessings more fully and contribute to a more harmonious and purposeful world, reflecting His divine wisdom and loving intention for all of creation.