Bible Verses About Theocracy

All the people answered as one, "Everything ADONAI has said, we will do." Moshe reported the words of the people to ADONAI.

Moshe came and told the people everything ADONAI had said, including all the rulings. The people answered with one voice: "We will obey every word ADONAI has spoken."

Then he took the book of the covenant and read it aloud, so that the people could hear; and they responded, "Everything that ADONAI has spoken, we will do and obey."

But why should we keep risking death? This great fire will consume us! If we hear the voice of ADONAI our God any more, we will die!

For who is there of all humanity that has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the fire, as we have, and stayed alive?

You, go near; and hear everything ADONAI our God says. Then you will tell us everything ADONAI our God says to you; and we will listen to it and do it.'

"ADONAI heard what you were saying when you spoke to me, and ADONAI said to me, 'I have heard what this people has said when speaking to you, and everything they have said is good.

Oh, how I wish their hearts would stay like this always, that they would fear me and obey all my mitzvot; so that it would go well with them and their children forever.

"ADONAI came from Sinai; from Se'ir he dawned on his people, shone forth from Mount Pa'ran; and with him were myriads of holy ones; at his right hand was a fiery law for them.

He truly loves the peoples -all his holy ones are in your hand; sitting at your feet, they receive your instruction,

the Torah Moshe commanded us as an inheritance for the community of Ya'akov.

Then a king arose in Yeshurun when the leaders of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Isra'el together.

Gid'on replied, "Neither I nor my son will rule over you; ADONAI will rule over you."

ADONAI said to Sh'mu'el, "Listen to the people, to everything they say to you; for it is not you they are rejecting; they are rejecting me; they don't want me to be king over them.

However, the people refused to listen to what Sh'mu'el told them, and they said, "No! We want a king over us,

But today you have rejected your God, who himself saves you from all your disasters and distress. You have said to him, 'No! Put a king over us!' So now, present yourselves before ADONAI by your tribes and families."

When you saw that Nachash the king of the people of 'Amon was attacking you, you said to me, "No, we want a king to rule over us"- when ADONAI your God was your king.

Now you expect to withstand the kingdom of ADONAI in the hands of the descendants of David. Yes, there are a great number of you, and you have with you the gold calves that Yarov'am made as gods for you.