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
And he said, These seven ewe lambs thou shall take from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.
Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.
Exodus 22:11
the oath of LORD shall be between them both, whether he has not put his hand to his neighbor's goods. And the owner of it shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.
Joshua 9:15
And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them to let them live, and the rulers of the congregation swore to them.
2 Samuel 21:2
And 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 had sworn to them, and [yet] Saul sought to kill them in his zeal
Ezekiel 17:16
As I live, says lord LORD, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
General references
Genesis 21:24
And Abraham said, I will swear.
Isaiah 54:9
For this is [as] the waters of Noah to me. For as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with thee, nor rebuke thee.
Micah 7:20
Thou will perform the truth to Jacob, [and] the loving kindness to Abraham, which thou have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
Luke 1:73
the oath that he swore to Abraham our father, to give to us,