Oath

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Genesis 42:16 OT

  Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.”

• Judges 8:19 OT

  He said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As Yahweh lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.”

• 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.…

• 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.”

• 1 Samuel 3:17 OT

  He said, “What is the thing that he has spoken to you? Please don’t hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you.”

• 2 Samuel 19:7 OT

  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…

• 1 Kings 2:42 OT

  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…

• Galatians 1:20 NT

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

• 2 Corinthians 1:23 NT

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

• 1 Thessalonians 2:5 NT

  For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

• 1 Thessalonians 5:27 NT

  I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.

• 1 Samuel 1:26 OT

  She said, “Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 25:26 OT

  Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as…

• Genesis 22:16 OT

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

• Numbers 14:28 OT

  Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you.

• Numbers 6:17 OT

  He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its meal offering and its drink offering.