Oath

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Jeremiah 4:2 OT

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

• Joshua 9:19 OT

  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 OT

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

• 2 Samuel 21:7 OT

  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.

• Psalms 15:4 OT

  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;

• Matthew 14:9 NT

  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 23:16-22 NT

  “Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’ You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?…

• Judges 21:7 OT

  How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?”

• Matthew 14:7 NT

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

• Matthew 26:72 NT

  Again he denied it with an oath, “I don’t know the man.”

• Jeremiah 5:2 OT

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

• Jeremiah 7:9 OT

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

• Zechariah 5:4 OT

  I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber…

• Malachi 3:5 OT

  I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and…

• Jeremiah 23:10 OT

  For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;

• Hosea 4:2 OT

  There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

• Joshua 9:15 OT

  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 OT

  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.

• Judges 11:30-36 OT

  Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand, then it shall be, that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it…

• 1 Samuel 14:27 OT

  But Jonathan didn’t hear when his father commanded the people with the oath. Therefore he put out the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened.

• 1 Samuel 14:44 OT

  Saul said, “God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan.”

• Matthew 14:7-9 NT

  Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask. She, being prompted by her mother, said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer.” The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths, and of those…

• Acts 23:21 NT

  Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”

• Genesis 42:15 OT

  By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.