Oath

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Genesis 14:22 OT

  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 OT

  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 OT

  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 OT

  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…

• Genesis 26:26-29 OT

  Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army. Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?” They said, “We saw plainly that Yahweh…

• Genesis 26:31 OT

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

• Genesis 24:2 OT

  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 OT

  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 OT

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

• Genesis 25:33 OT

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

• Genesis 31:53 OT

  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 47:28-31 OT

  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. The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found…

• Genesis 50:25 OT

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

• Joshua 2:12-14 OT

  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; and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my…

• Joshua 6:22 OT

  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 9:3-20 OT

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

• Joshua 14:9 OT

  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 OT

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

• Judges 21:5 OT

  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…

• Ruth 1:17 OT

  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 OT

  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.…

• 1 Samuel 19:6 OT

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

• 1 Samuel 20:3 OT

  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…

• 1 Samuel 20:13-17 OT

  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. You shall not only show…