After some years have passed, they ¹  will form an alliance. Then the daughter ²  of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement, but she will not retain her power, ³  nor will he continue ⁴  in his strength. ⁵  She, together with the one who brought her, her child, ⁶  and her benefactor will all be delivered over at that time. ⁷ 

accordingly Jesus has become the guarantee ¹  of a better covenant.

and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.” ¹ 

“You must make no covenant with them or with their gods.

Then Abner sent messengers ¹  to David saying, “To whom does the land belong? Make an agreement ²  with me, and I will do whatever I can ³  to cause all Israel to turn to you.”

For ¹  look, the kings assemble; ²  they advance together.

Yet even on this point their testimony did not agree.

And so he is the mediator ¹  of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, ²  since he died ³  to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.

Then those men came by collusion to the king and ¹  said to him, ²  “Recall, ³  O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no edict or decree that the king issues can be changed.”

They ¹  utter empty words, ²  taking ³  false oaths and making empty ⁴  agreements. Therefore legal disputes sprout up like poisonous weeds ⁵  in the furrows of a plowed field.

If someone spreads false teachings ¹  and does not agree with sound words (that is, those of our Lord Jesus Christ) and with the teaching that accords with godliness,

When he speaks of a new covenant, ¹  he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear. ² 

So David said, “Good! I will make an agreement with you. I ask only one thing from you. You will not see my face unless you bring Saul’s daughter Michal when you come to visit me.” ¹ 

“It will not be like the covenant ¹  that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.

Therefore, announce: ¹  ‘I am going to give ²  to him my covenant of peace. ³ 

The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath,

he ¹  commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the Lord’s covenant,

the promise ¹  he made to Abraham, the promise he made by oath to Isaac! ² 

He gave it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as a lasting promise, ¹