Vows

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Numbers 15:2-16 OT

  “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you, and will make an offering by fire to Yahweh—a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a free…

• Numbers 30:1-16 OT

  Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded. When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall…

• Deuteronomy 23:21-23 OT

  When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it, for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you. But if you refrain from making a vow, it shall be no sin in you. You shall observe and…

• Job 22:27 OT

  You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.

• Psalms 22:25 OT

  My praise of you comes in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him.

• Psalms 50:14 OT

  Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

• Psalms 50:15 OT

  Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

• Psalms 56:12 OT

  Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you.

• Psalms 61:5 OT

  For you, God, have heard my vows. You have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.

• Psalms 61:8 OT

  So I will sing praise to your name forever, that I may fulfill my vows daily.

• Psalms 65:1 OT

  Praise waits for you, God, in Zion. Vows shall be performed to you.

• Psalms 66:13 OT

  I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,

• Psalms 66:14 OT

  which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.

• Psalms 76:11 OT

  Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.

• Psalms 116:14-19 OT

  I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his people. Precious in Yahweh’s sight is the death of his saints. Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my…

• Proverbs 20:25 OT

  It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, then later to consider his vows.

• Ecclesiastes 5:4-6 OT

  When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow. It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay. Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t…

• Jonah 2:9 OT

  But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”

• Nahum 1:15 OT

  Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.

• Genesis 28:20-22 OT

  Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on, so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God, then this…

• Judges 17:2 OT

  He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears—behold, the silver is with me. I took it.” His mother said, “May Yahweh bless my son!”

• Judges 17:3 OT

  He restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, then his mother said, “I most certainly dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a molten image. Now therefore I will restore it to…

• 1 Samuel 1:11 OT

  She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his…

• 1 Samuel 1:21 OT

  The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice and his vow.