Quotes About Guidance

You may eat any clean bird,

but these you may not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,

any kind of raven,

the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, or the bat.

All flying insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.

But you may eat any clean bird.

if only you obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all these commandments I am giving you today.

If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose.

You are to go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who presides at that time. Inquire of them, and they will give you a verdict in the case.

You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the LORD will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you,

according to the terms of law they give and the verdict they proclaim. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from the decision they declare to you.

you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.

But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ëYou are never to go back that way again.í

Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.

The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.

Then the LORD said to me, “They have spoken well.

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.

And I will hold accountable anyone who does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name.

You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”

and if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these three.

When you are about to go into battle, the priest is to come forward and address the army,

For the LORD your God goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.”

When the officers have finished addressing the army, they are to appoint commanders to lead it.