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Deuteronomy 6:4  Hear, O Israel: Adonai our God, Adonai is one.

:שמע ישראל יהוה אלהינו יהוה אחד

Mark 12:28-31  And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that He answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” Yeshua answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: Adonai our God, Adonai is one. And you shall love Adonai your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’  The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

שמע

עיל מלכות שמים = “the yoke of the Kingdom of Heaven”

REFERENCES:

Deuteronomy 6:4-9  “Hear, O Israel: Adonai our God, Adonai is one. You shall love Adonai your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts [mezuzot] of your house and on your gates.

2 Corinthians 5:7 …for we walk by faith, not by sight.

Romans 10:17  So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Messiah.

Leviticus 19:18  You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am Adonai.

Deuteronomy 13:13  …that certain sons of Belial have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known,

Judges 19:22  As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, sons of Belial, surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they said to the old man, the master of the house, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.” [+ 20:13]

1 Samuel 1:16  “Do not regard your servant as a daughter of Belial, for all along I have been speaking out of my great anxiety and vexation.”

1 Samuel 2:12  Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial. They did not know Adonai. [+ 10:27 / 25:17, 25 / 30:22]

2 Samuel 16:7  And Shimei said as he cursed, “Get out, get out, you man of blood, you son of Belial!” [+ 20:1 / 23:6]

1 Kings 21:10  And set two sons of Belial opposite him, and let them bring a charge against him, saying, ‘You have cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.” [+ 13]

2 Chronicles 13:7  And certain sons of Belial gathered about him and defied Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and irresolute and could not withstand them. [+ 6:15]

2 Corinthians 6:15  What accord has Messiah with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?

Job 34:18  …who says to a king, ‘Belial’, and to nobles, ‘Wicked man.’

Psalm 18:4  The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of Belial assailed me;

Psalm 41:8  They say, “A thing of Belial is poured out on him; he will not rise again from where he lies.”

Psalm 101:3  I will not set before my eyes anything that is belial; I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

Proverbs 6:12  A man of Belial, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech. [+ 16:27 / 19:28

Nahum 1:11  From you came one who plotted evil against Adonai, a counselor of Belial. [+ 2:1]