Treasury of Scripture
if a man. The preceding chapters had treated of sacrifices required by law; and in the laws here delivered in respect to vows must have been very useful, as they both prevented and annulled rash vows, and provided a proper sanction for the support and performance of those which were rationally made, and which were made to the Lord. vow a vow
Numbers 21:2 And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand...
Genesis 28:20-22 And 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...
Leviticus 27:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When a man shall make a singular vow...
Deuteronomy 23:21,22 When you shall vow a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not slack to pay it: for the LORD your God will surely require it of you...
Judges 11:11,30,31,35,36 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them...
Psalm 15:3 He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor.
Psalm 56:12 Your vows are on me, O God: I will render praises to you.
Psalm 76:11 Vow, and pay to the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents to him that ought to be feared.
Psalm 119:106 I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep your righteous judgments.
Proverbs 20:25 It is a snare to the man who devours that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
swear
Exodus 20:7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain.
Leviticus 5:4 Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath...
Matthew 5:33,34 Again, you have heard that it has been said by them of old time, You shall not forswear yourself...
Matthew 14:7-9 Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she would ask...
Acts 23:12 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse...
2 Corinthians 1:23 Moreover I call God for a record on my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet to Corinth.
2 Corinthians 9:9-11 (As it is written, He has dispersed abroad; he has given to the poor: his righteousness remains for ever...
to bind
Numbers 30:3,4,10 If a woman also vow a vow to the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth...
Matthew 23:16,18 Woe to you, you blind guides, which say, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing...
Acts 23:12,14,21 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse...
break. Heb. profane
Psalm 55:20 He has put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he has broken his covenant.
he shall do
Job 22:27 You shall make your prayer to him, and he shall hear you, and you shall pay your vows.
Psalm 22:25 My praise shall be of you in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
Psalm 50:14 Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay your vows to the most High:
Psalm 66:13,14 I will go into your house with burnt offerings: I will pay you my vows...
Psalm 116:14,18 I will pay my vows to the LORD now in the presence of all his people...
Ecclesiastes 5:4,5 When you vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools: pay that which you have vowed...
Nahum 1:15 Behold on the mountains the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace! O Judah, keep your solemn feasts...