OATH

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• Genesis 14:22

  Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

• Genesis 14:23

  that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’

• Genesis 21:22

  At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.

• Genesis 21:23

  Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”

• Genesis 22:16

  and said, “I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

• Genesis 24:2

  Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.

• Genesis 24:3

  I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

• Genesis 24:9

  The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

• Genesis 25:33

  Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.

• Genesis 26:26

  Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

• Genesis 26:27

  Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”

• Genesis 26:28

  They said, “We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,

• Genesis 26:29

  that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of Yahweh.”

• Genesis 26:31

  They rose up some time in the morning, and swore to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

• Genesis 31:53

  The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.

• Genesis 47:28

  Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

• Genesis 47:29

  The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,

• Genesis 47:30

  but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.” He said, “I will do as you have said.”

• Genesis 47:31

  He said, “Swear to me,” and he swore to him. Israel bowed himself on the bed’s head.

• Genesis 50:25

  Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”

• Exodus 20:7

  “You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

• Exodus 22:10

  “If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it;

• Exodus 22:11

  the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he hasn’t put his hand to his neighbor’s goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

• Exodus 23:1

  “You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

• Leviticus 6:2

  “If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,

• Leviticus 6:3

  or has found that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of these things that a man does, sinning therein;

• Leviticus 6:4

  then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,

• Leviticus 6:5

  or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. To him to whom it belongs he shall give it, in the day of his being found guilty.

• Leviticus 19:12

  “‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

• Numbers 5:19

  The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.

• Numbers 5:20

  But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:”

• Numbers 5:21

  then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;

• Numbers 5:22

  and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”

• Numbers 5:23

  “‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.

• Numbers 5:24

  He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.

• Deuteronomy 5:11

  “You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain: for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

• Deuteronomy 6:13

  You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.

• Deuteronomy 10:20

  You shall fear Yahweh your God; you shall serve him; and you shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.

• Joshua 2:12

  Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a true sign;

• Joshua 2:13

  and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.”

• Joshua 2:14

  The men said to her, “Our life for yours, if you don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.”

• Joshua 6:22

  Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house, and bring the woman and all that she has out from there, as you swore to her.”

• Joshua 9:3

  But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

• Joshua 9:4

  they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wine skins,

• Joshua 9:5

  and old and patched shoes on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their food supply was dry and moldy.

• Joshua 9:6

  They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us.”

• Joshua 9:7

  The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “What if you live among us. How could we make a covenant with you?”

• Joshua 9:8

  They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.” Joshua said to them, “Who are you? Where do you come from?”

• Joshua 9:9

  They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,

• Joshua 9:10

  and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.

• Joshua 9:11

  Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, ‘Take supplies in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them. Tell them, “We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us.”’

• Joshua 9:12

  This our bread we took hot for our supplies out of our houses on the day we went out to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and has become moldy.

• Joshua 9:13

  These wine skins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our shoes have become old because of the very long journey.”

• Joshua 9:14

  The men sampled their provisions, and didn’t ask counsel from Yahweh’s mouth.

• Joshua 9:15

  Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.

• Joshua 9:16

  At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.

• Joshua 9:17

  The children of Israel traveled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

• Joshua 9:18

  The children of Israel didn’t strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.

• Joshua 9:19

  But all the princes said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. Now therefore we may not touch them.

• Joshua 9:20

  We will do this to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.”

• Joshua 14:9

  Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where you walked shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have wholly followed Yahweh my God.’

• Judges 11:10

  The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Yahweh will be witness between us. Surely we will do what you say.”

• Judges 21:5

  The children of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to Yahweh?” For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”

• Ruth 1:17

  Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”

• Ruth 3:13

  Stay this night, and in the morning, if he will perform for you the part of a kinsman, good. Let him do the kinsman’s duty. But if he will not do the duty of a kinsman for you, then I will do the duty of a kinsman for you, as Yahweh lives. Lie down until the morning.”

• 1 Samuel 19:6

  Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, “As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.”

• 1 Samuel 20:3

  David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved:’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”

• 1 Samuel 20:13

  Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don’t disclose it to you, and send you away, that you may go in peace. May Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father.

• 1 Samuel 20:14

  You shall not only while yet I live show me the loving kindness of Yahweh, that I not die;

• 1 Samuel 20:15

  but you shall also not cut off your kindness from my house forever; no, not when Yahweh has cut off every one of the enemies of David from the surface of the earth.”

• 1 Samuel 20:16

  So Jonathan made a covenant with David’s house, saying, “Yahweh will require it at the hand of David’s enemies.”

• 1 Samuel 20:17

  Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

• 1 Samuel 24:21

  Swear now therefore to me by Yahweh, that you will not cut off my offspring after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father’s house.”

• 1 Samuel 24:22

  David swore to Saul. Saul went home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

• 1 Samuel 28:10

  Saul swore to her by Yahweh, saying, “As Yahweh lives, no punishment will happen to you for this thing.”

• 2 Samuel 3:35

  All the people came to urge David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun goes down.”

• 2 Samuel 19:7

  Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.”

• 2 Samuel 21:7

  But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

• 1 Kings 1:28

  Then king David answered, “Call Bathsheba in to me.” She came into the king’s presence and stood before the king.

• 1 Kings 1:29

  The king swore, and said, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

• 1 Kings 2:23

  Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

• 1 Kings 2:42

  The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Didn’t I adjure you by Yahweh, and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain, that on the day you go out, and walk anywhere else, you shall surely die?’ You said to me, ‘The saying that I have heard is good.’

• 1 Kings 8:31

  “If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;

• 1 Kings 8:32

  then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

• 2 Kings 2:2

  Elijah said to Elisha, “Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel.” Elisha said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

• 2 Kings 5:20

  But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”

• 2 Kings 6:31

  Then he said, “God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today.”

• 2 Kings 11:4

  In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into Yahweh’s house; and he made a covenant with them, and made a covenant with them in Yahweh’s house, and showed them the king’s son.

• 2 Chronicles 36:13

  He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

• Ezra 10:5

  Then Ezra arose, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore.

• Ezra 10:19

  They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.

• Nehemiah 5:12

  Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.” Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.

• Nehemiah 5:13

  Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even be he shaken out, and emptied like this.” All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.

• Psalms 15:1

  A Psalm by David. Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?

• Psalms 15:2

  He who walks blamelessly does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;

• Psalms 15:4

  In whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;

• Psalms 89:35

  Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.

• Psalms 95:11

  Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”

• Psalms 105:9

  the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,

• Psalms 132:11

  Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

• Ecclesiastes 8:2

  I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.

• Isaiah 14:24

  Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

• Isaiah 45:23

  I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath.

• Isaiah 48:1

  “Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness

• Jeremiah 4:2

  and you shall swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.”

• Jeremiah 5:2

  Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives;’ surely they swear falsely.”

• Jeremiah 5:7

  “How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.

• Jeremiah 7:8

  Behold, you trust in lying words, that can’t profit.

• Jeremiah 7:9

  Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

• Jeremiah 11:5

  that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey,’ as it is today.” Then answered I, and said, “Amen, Yahweh.”

• Jeremiah 12:16

  It shall happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As Yahweh lives;’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built up in the middle of my people.

• Jeremiah 22:5

  But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself,” says Yahweh, “that this house shall become a desolation.”’”

• Jeremiah 38:16

  So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, “As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.”

• Jeremiah 40:9

  Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying, “Don’t be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

• Jeremiah 49:13

  For I have sworn by myself,” says Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes.”

• Jeremiah 51:14

  Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, saying, ‘Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker worm; and they will lift up a shout against you.’

• Daniel 9:11

  Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice: therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us; for we have sinned against him.

• Daniel 12:7

  I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it shall be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have finished breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

• Hosea 4:15

  “Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don’t let Judah offend; and don’t come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, ‘As Yahweh lives.’

• Matthew 5:33

  “Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’

• Matthew 5:34

  but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;

• Matthew 5:35

  nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

• Matthew 5:36

  Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black.

• Matthew 5:37

  But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

• Matthew 14:3

  For Herod had laid hold of John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.

• Matthew 14:4

  For John said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”

• Matthew 14:5

  When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

• Matthew 14:6

  But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced among them and pleased Herod.

• Matthew 14:7

  Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask.

• Matthew 14:8

  She, being prompted by her mother, said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer.”

• Matthew 14:9

  The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths, and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given,

• Matthew 14:10

  and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.

• Matthew 14:11

  His head was brought on a platter, and given to the young lady: and she brought it to her mother.

• Matthew 14:12

  His disciples came, and took the body, and buried it; and they went and told Jesus.

• Matthew 23:18

  ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’

• Matthew 23:19

  You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

• Matthew 23:20

  He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by everything on it.

• Matthew 23:21

  He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who was living in it.

• Matthew 23:22

  He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.

• Matthew 26:63

  But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

• Mark 6:26

  The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn’t wish to refuse her.

• Mark 14:71

  But he began to curse, and to swear, “I don’t know this man of whom you speak!”

• Luke 1:73

  the oath which he swore to Abraham, our father,

• Acts 23:12

  When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

• Acts 23:13

  There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.

• Acts 23:14

  They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

• 2 Corinthians 1:23

  But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

• Galatians 1:20

  Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.

• Hebrews 3:11

  as I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”

• Hebrews 3:18

  To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

• Hebrews 4:3

  For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest”; although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

• Hebrews 6:13

  For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

• Hebrews 6:14

  saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.”

• Hebrews 6:16

  For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

• Hebrews 6:17

  In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

• Hebrews 7:21

  (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, “The Lord swore and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’”

• Hebrews 7:28

  For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.

• James 5:12

  But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear — not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”; so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

• Revelation 10:5

  The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to the sky,

• Revelation 10:6

  and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay,