Agreement

Agreements made by deliberate choice

Agreement to do good

Job 2:11 KJV 1900

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

See also Ne 5:9–13

Agreement to do wrong

Daniel 6:7 KJV 1900

All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellers, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

See also Je 7:18; Lk 22:5–6; Ac 5:1–2; Ac 23:20–21

Legal agreements

Between witnesses

Deuteronomy 17:6 KJV 1900

At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

See also Nu 35:30; Dt 19:15; Ru 4:9–11; Mt 18:16

Treaties

1 Kings 15:19–20 KJV 1900

There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me. So Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

See also Ge 21:27; Ge 26:28–31; Jos 9:15; Jos 11:19; 1 Ki 5:12; 1 Ki 20:34

Ways of making agreements

By accepting terms offered

Genesis 23:16 KJV 1900

And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

See also Ge 30:31–34; Ge 34:24; Jos 2:21; Jdg 15:12–13; Jdg 17:10–11; 1 Sa 20:16–17

Through mutually acceptable terms

Genesis 37:26–27 KJV 1900

And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood? Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.

See also Ge 13:8–9; Ge 26:19–22; Ac 15:28–29

Agreement reached by persuasion

Daniel 1:12–14 KJV 1900

Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink. Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king’s meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants. So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.

Agreement commended to believers

Agreement enhances unity

Ephesians 4:3 KJV 1900

Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

See also 2 Ch 30:12; Ps 133:1; Jn 17:11; Jn 17:21–23; Ro 15:5

Agreement avoids division

1 Corinthians 1:10 KJV 1900

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

See also Ro 12:16; Php 2:1–3; Php 4:2

Agreements made before God

Agreement in prayer

Matthew 18:19 KJV 1900

Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.

See also 1 Ki 1:36; Ac 1:14; Ac 4:24; Ac 12:12; Ro 15:30–31

Agreement in praise

Nehemiah 8:6 KJV 1900

And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground.

See also 1 Ch 16:36; Ps 41:13; Ps 72:19; 1 Co 14:16; Re 5:13–14

Agreement with God’s terms

Exodus 24:3 KJV 1900

And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the Lord hath said will we do.

See also Nu 5:22; Dt 27:15–26; 2 Ki 23:3; Je 11:1–5