Oath

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• 2 Chronicles 15:15 OT

  All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.

• Nehemiah 10:29 OT

  joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and…

• Psalms 132:2 OT

  how he swore to Yahweh, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:

• Genesis 24:4 OT

  But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”

• 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 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;

• 1 Kings 22:16 OT

  The king said to him, “How many times do I have to adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in Yahweh’s name?”

• Matthew 26:63 NT

  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.”

• Daniel 12:7 OT

  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 will be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have…

• Revelation 10:5 NT

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

• Revelation 10:6 NT

  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,

• 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 24:9 OT

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

• Genesis 47:29 OT

  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,

• Ecclesiastes 9:2 OT

  All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an…

• Joshua 23:7 OT

  that you not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;

• Matthew 5:34-36 NT

  but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God; nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Neither shall you swear by your head, for…

• James 5:12 NT

  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.

• Leviticus 6:3 OT

  or has found that which was lost, and lied about it, and swearing to a lie—in any of these things that a man sins in his actions—

• Zechariah 8:17 OT

  and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.

• Leviticus 5:4 OT

  “ ‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil or to do good—whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him—when he knows of it, then he will be guilty of one of these.

• Deuteronomy 6:13 OT

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

• Deuteronomy 10:20 OT

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

• Isaiah 65:16 OT

  so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my eyes.