Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
General references
Bible References
An oath
Genesis 21:30
He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a witness to me, that I dug this well.”
Genesis 31:53 The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.
Exodus 22:11
an oath before the Lord shall be made by the two of them that he has not laid hands on his neighbor’s property; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.
Joshua 9:15 Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.
2 Samuel 21:2
So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the sons of Israel made a covenant with them, but Saul had sought to kill them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah).
Ezekiel 17:16
As I live,’ declares the Lord God, ‘Surely in the country of the king who put him on the throne, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, in Babylon he shall die.
General references
Genesis 21:24
Abraham said, “I swear it.”
Isaiah 54:9 “For this is like the days of Noah to Me,
When I swore that the waters of Noah
Wouldnot flood the earth again;
So I have sworn that I willnot be angry with you
Nor will I rebuke you.
When I swore that the waters of Noah
Would
So I have sworn that I will
Nor will I rebuke you.
Micah 7:20 You will give truth to Jacob
Andunchanging love to Abraham,
Which Youswore to our forefathers
From the days of old.
And
Which You
From the days of old.
Luke 1:73 The oath which He swore to Abraham our father,