Joshua charges the leaders of the Israelites to remain faithful to Yahweh and the covenant, warning of judgement should Israel leave Yahweh and follow other gods ; Joshua meets with all the people and reminds them of Yahweh's great works for them, and of the need to love Yahweh alone.

* Joshua served as the mediator of the renewed covenant between Yahweh and Israel at Shechem ( 8: 30 – 35 ; 24 ), just as Moses was the mediator of Yahweh's covenant with the people at Mount Sinai / Mount Horeb.

In this third covenant, unlike the first two, God hands down an elaborate set of laws ( scattered through Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers ), which the Israelites are to observe ; they are also to remain faithful to Yahweh, the god of Israel, meaning, among other things, that they must put their trust in his help.

" The stories follow a consistent pattern: the people are unfaithful to Yahweh and he therefore delivers them into the hands of their enemies ; the people repent and entreat Yahweh for mercy, which he sends in the form of a leader or champion ( a " judge "); the judge delivers the Israelites from oppression and they prosper, but soon they fall again into unfaithfulness and the cycle is repeated.

Chapters 1: 1-2: 5 are thus a confession of failure ; chapters 2: 6-3: 6 are a major summary and reflection from the Deuteronomists, setting out the over all formula which the stories in the main text will follow: Israel " does evil in the eyes of Yahweh ;" the people are given into the hands of their enemies and cry out to Yahweh ; Yahweh raises up a leader ; the " spirit of Yahweh " comes upon the leader, the enemy is defeated, and peace is regained.

This is the theme played out in Judges: the people are unfaithful to Yahweh and he therefore delivers them into the hands of their enemies ; the people then repent and entreat Yahweh for mercy, which he sends in the form of a judge ; the judge delivers the Israelites from oppression, but after a while they fall into unfaithfulness again and the cycle is repeated.

The main themes of the book are introduced in the opening poem ( the " Song of Hannah "): ( 1 ), the sovereignty of Yahweh, God of Israel ; ( 2 ), the reversal of human fortunes ; and ( 3 ), kingship.

The conquest begins in Canaan with Jericho, followed by Ai ( central Canaan ), after which Joshua builds an altar to Yahweh at Mt Ebal ( northern Canaan ) and renews the Covenant.

* Joshua successfully intercedes on behalf of the Israelites when Yahweh is angry for their failure to fully observe the " ban " ( herem ), just as Moses frequently persuaded God not to punish the people ( Ex.

While the book is relatively short it includes lament ( 1. 8-16 ; 7. 8-10 ), theophany ( 1. 3-4 ), hymnic prayer of petition and confidence ( 7. 14-20 ), and the " covenant lawsuit " ( 6. 1-8 ), a distinct genre in which Yahweh ( God ) sues Israel for breach of contract, that is, for violation of the Sinai covenant.

While Yahweh demands animals that are " without blemish " ( Leviticus 1: 3, NRSV ), the priests, who were " to determine whether the animal was acceptable " ( Mason 143 ), were offering blind, lame and sick animals for sacrifice because they thought nobody would notice.

Each covenant is mediated by a great leader ( Noah, Abraham, Moses ), and at each stage God progressively reveals himself by his name ( Elohim with Noah, El Shaddai with Abraham, Yahweh with Moses ).

It bears what is generally thought to be the earliest extra-biblical Semitic reference to the name Yahweh ( YHWH ), whose temple goods were plundered by Mesha and brought before his own god Kemosh.

* Trinitarian monotheism is the Christian doctrine of belief in one God who is three distinct persons ; God the Father ( Yahweh ), God the Son ( Christ Jesus ) and God the Holy Spirit ( Holy Ghost ).

In a Rabbinical account ( e. g. Targum Sheni ), Solomon was accustomed to ordering the living creatures of the world to dance before him ( Rabbinical accounts say that Solomon had been given control over all living things by Yahweh ), but one day upon discovering that the mountain-cock or hoopoe ( Hebrew name: shade ) was absent, he summoned it to him, and the bird told him that it had been searching for somewhere new.

Syncretism covers the worship of Baal, the heavenly bodies ( sun, moon, and stars ), the " Queen of Heaven " and other deities as well as practices such as child sacrifice: " Other gods were invoked and serviced in time of need or blessing and provision for life when the worship of Yahweh seemed inadequate for those purposes.

But during the 20th century it became increasingly recognised that the Bible's presentation raises a number of questions: Why do the Ten Commandments declare that there should be no other gods " before Me " ( Yahweh ), if there are no other gods at all?

722 challenged this, for if the neo-Assyrian empire were so powerful, so must be its god ; and conversely, if Israel could be conquered ( and later Judah, c. 586 ), it implied that Yahweh in turn was a minor divinity.

Although the rendering of the Tetragrammaton as " Yahweh " is found in the Old Testament of versions such as the Roman Catholic Jerusalem Bible, and New Jerusalem Bible ( 1985 ), the liturgical use of Yahweh in vernarcular worship was reprobated by the Vatican in 2008.

It is difficult to determine to what extent the ' false worship ' which the prophets stigmatize is the worship of Yahweh under a conception and with rites, which treated him as a local nature god, or whether particular features of gods more often given the title Ba ‘ al were consciously recognized to be distinct from Yahwism from the first.

It also often appears at the end of Israelite theophoric names such as Isaiah " yeshayah ( u ), Yahweh is salvation " and Jeremiah " yirmeyah ( u ), Yahweh is exalted ".

Rabbinical interpreters and some scholars have asserted that Yahweh is an archaic third person form of hayah " to be ", which is rendered Ehyeh when spoken by God in the first person ; critics of this theory note that the proper triconsonantal root would seem to be h-w-h.

Regarding the Old Testament, the Israelite theonyms Elohim and Yahweh are mostly rendered as " God " and " the Lord " respectively, although in the Protestant tradition, the personal names Yahweh and Jehovah, based on the tetragrammaton, are also used.

Yahweh Elohim is rendered as Lord God.

The correct pronunciation is not known, however, it is sometimes rendered by Christians as " Yahweh " or " Jehovah ".

In 1611, the inaugural edition of the King James Bible editors did not include the name ” Yahweh ,” not being aware of the rendering, though Jehovah does appear several times.

Jah (; = Yah ) is the shortened form of the divine name YHWH ( also spelled Jehovah or Yahweh ), an anglicized version of the Tetragrammaton ( YHWH, Latin JHVH ).

* Hebrew: another meaning of " four-letter word " ( in Greek, tetragrammaton ) is the Hebrew name of the Abrahamic God, that is, י-ה-ו-ה ( commonly transliterated as " YHWH ", " Yahweh ", and " Jehovah "), which many practicing Jews do not speak aloud and protect when written ( see Geniza ).

The World English Bible follows the American Standard Version's decision to transliterate the Tetragrammaton, but updates " Jehovah " to be " Yahweh ".

This is very evident by the use of the name Jehovah instead of the more commonly accepted Yahweh in the later translations.

" Praise Jah " is therefore a shortened form of " Praise Yahweh ", or, in another transliteration of the name, " Praise Jehovah ".

Like the Jerusalem Bible, the New Jerusalem Bible makes the uncommon decision to render God's name, the Tetragrammaton, in the Jewish scriptures as Yahweh rather than as Lord or Jehovah.

* Jah, shortened form of the divine name YHWH ( also spelled Jehovah or Yahweh ), used at Psalm 68: 4 ( KJV ) and elsewhere.

* Yah, shortened form of " Yahweh " ( also given as " Jehovah " in English ), one of the names of God in Judaism

" Praise Jah " is a short form of " Praise Yahweh ", or of " praise ye Jehovah ".

The name of God ( Yahweh / Jehovah ) appears twenty-four times.

* Yahweh is the true and correct pronunciation of the Creator's name, and it was wrongly misspelled as Jehovah by the Europeans.

In 1823 the French sinologist Jean-Pierre-Abel Rémusat suggested a relationship between Abrahamic faiths and Taoism ; he held that Yahweh was signified by three words in Chapter 14 ; yi ( 夷 " calm ; level ; barbarian "), xi ( 希 " rare ; indiscernible ; hope "), and wei ( 微 " tiny, small ; obscure ").

The Sacred Name Movement is a small Christian movement, active since the 1930s, which propagates the use of the name Yahweh in Bible translations and in liturgy.

Despite the eventual termination of the supply of manna, Exodus states that a small amount of it survived within an omer-sized pot or jar, which was kept facing the Testimony ( possibly, adjacent to the Ark of the Covenant ); it indicates that Yahweh instructed this of Moses, who delegated it to Aaron.

Nor should the Biblical texts be taken to represent the beliefs of all Jews or Christians at the time they were put into writing: the majority of those making up Hebrew Bible or Old Testament in particular represent the beliefs of only a small segment of the ancient Israelite community, the members of a late Judean religious tradition centered in Jerusalem and devoted to the exclusive worship of Yahweh.

Other organizations that were birthed from or splintered from this church body include Progressive Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Refuge Temple Assembly of Yahweh, the Evangelistic Churches of Christ, a host of small organizations, and independent churches of varying sizes.