Jonah 2:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.

I will sacrifice

I will pay

General references

Deuteronomy 23:21

Bible References

I will sacrifice

Let us go up at once to Bethel. Then I will make an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress and has been with me wherever I went."

Present to God a thank-offering! Repay your vows to the sovereign One!

I will enter your temple with burnt sacrifices; I will fulfill the vows I made to you,

Let them present thank offerings, and loudly proclaim what he has done!

I will present a thank offering to you, and call on the name of the Lord.

Once again there will be sounds of joy and gladness and the glad celebrations of brides and grooms. Once again people will bring their thank offerings to the temple of the Lord and will say, "Give thanks to the Lord who rules over all. For the Lord is good and his unfailing love lasts forever." For I, the Lord, affirm that I will restore the land to what it was in days of old.'

Return to the Lord and repent! Say to him: "Completely forgive our iniquity; accept our penitential prayer, that we may offer the praise of our lips as sacrificial bulls.

Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice -- alive, holy, and pleasing to God -- which is your reasonable service.

Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, acknowledging his name.

I will pay

You must never bring the pay of a female prostitute or the wage of a male prostitute into the temple of the Lord your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the Lord your God.

After four years Absalom said to the king, "Let me go and repay my vow that I made to the Lord while I was in Hebron.

You will pray to him and he will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows to him.

When you make a vow to God, do not delay in paying it. For God takes no pleasure in fools: Pay what you vow!

General references

When you make a vow to the Lord your God you must not delay in fulfilling it, for otherwise he will surely hold you accountable as a sinner.