For when God made promise to Abraham, because he had no greater thing to swear by, he sware by himself, saying, "Surely I will bless thee, and multiply thee indeed."

Psalm 95:11

Therefore I said unto them in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest. Verse Concepts

Jeremiah 51:14

The LORD of Hosts hath sworn by himself that he will overwhelm thee with men, like grasshoppers in number, which with courage shall cry 'Alarum, Alarum' against thee. Verse Concepts

Hebrews 3:18

To whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but unto them that believed not? Verse Concepts

Isaiah 14:24

The LORD of Hosts hath sworn an oath, saying: It shall come to pass as I have determined, and shall be fulfilled as I have devised. Verse Concepts

Jeremiah 11:5

and will keep my promise, that I have sworn unto your fathers: Namely, that I would give them a land which floweth with milk and honey, as ye see it is come to pass unto this day." Then answered I, and said, "Amen. It is even so, O LORD, as thou sayest." Verse Concepts

Jeremiah 49:13

For why? I have sworn by myself, sayeth the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a wilderness; an open shame; a laughingstock and cursing; and her cities shall be a continual desert. Verse Concepts

Hebrews 7:28

For the law maketh men priests, which have infirmity: but the word of the oath that came since the law, maketh the son priest, which is perfect for evermore. Verse Concepts

Hebrews 6:17

So God, willing very abundantly to show, unto the heirs of promise, the stableness of his counsel; he added an oath, Verse Concepts

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Genesis 22:16

saying, "By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, because thou hast done this thing and hast not spared thy only son, Verse Concepts

Psalm 89:35

I have sworn once by my holiness, that I will not fail David. Verse Concepts

Psalm 105:9

even the covenant that he made with Abraham, and the oath that he sware unto Isaac, Verse Concepts

Hebrews 4:3

But we which have believed, do enter into his rest, as contrariwise he said to the other, "As I have sworn in my wrath, 'They shall not enter into my rest.'" And that spake he verily long after that the works were made, and the foundation of the world laid. Verse Concepts

Psalm 132:11

The LORD hath made a faithful oath unto David, and he shall not shrink from it, "Of the fruit of the body shall I set upon thy seat. Verse Concepts

Hebrews 3:11

so that I sware in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest." Verse Concepts

Revelation 10:6

and swore by him that liveth forevermore, which created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which therein are; that there should be no longer time: Verse Concepts

Isaiah 45:23

I swear by myself: out of my mouth cometh the word of righteousness, and that may no man turn: but all knees shall bow unto me, and all tongues shall swear by me, Verse Concepts

Jeremiah 22:5

But if ye will not be obedient unto these commandments, I swear by mine own self, sayeth the LORD, this house shall be waste. Verse Concepts

Hebrews 7:21

Those priests were made without an oath: but this priest with an oath, by him that said unto him, "The Lord sware, and will not repent: Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek." Verse Concepts

Oath » David swears to saul

2 Samuel 21:7

But the king had compassion on Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the LORD's oath that was between them: that is to say, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

1 Samuel 24:21-22

Swear therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou shalt not destroy my seed after me, and that thou shalt not destroy my name out of my father's house." And David sware unto Saul, and Saul went home. But David and his men gat up unto a hold.

Oath » Rahab requires an oath from the spies

Joshua 2:12-14

Now, therefore, swear unto me by the LORD because I have showed you mercy, that ye shall also show mercy unto my father's house and give me a true token. And that ye shall save alive, both my father and my mother, my brethren and my sisters, and all that pertain unto them. And that ye shall deliver our souls from death." And the men answered her, "Our lives for you to die, if you utter not this our business. And so when the LORD hath given us the land, we will deal mercifully and truly with thee."

Joshua 6:22

Then Joshua said to the two men that went to spy out the country: go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence, both the woman and all that pertaineth to her, as ye sware to her. Verse Concepts

Oath » Used in solemnizing covenants » Between isaac and abimelech

Genesis 26:31

And they rose up betimes in the morning and sware one to another. And Isaac sent them away. And they departed from him in peace. Verse Concepts

Genesis 26:26-29

Then came Abimelech to him from Gerar; and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol his chief captain. And Isaac said unto them, "Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me and have put me away from you?" Then said they, "We saw that the LORD was with thee, and therefore we said that there should be an oath betwixt us and thee, and that we would make a bond with thee: read more.
that thou shouldest do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and have done unto thee nothing but good, and send thee away in peace: for thou art now the blessed of the LORD."

Oath » Jonathan and david confirm a covenant by

1 Samuel 20:3

And David sware again and said, "Thy father knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes and therefore he thinketh, 'Jonathan shall not know it, lest he be sorry.' For in very deed even as truly as the LORD liveth, and as truly as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death." Verse Concepts

1 Samuel 20:13-17

And in like manner, if evil to thee ward please my father, I will show thee and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace. And the LORD be with thee as he hath been with my father. And thou shalt perform unto me the mercy of the LORD, not only while I live; but even when I am dead pluck not thy mercy away from my house forever. No, not when the LORD hath destroyed the enemies of David, every one, from the face of the earth." read more.
And so Jonathan made a bond with the house of David, desiring that the LORD should seek, out of the hands of David's enemies, their wickedness. And with other words Jonathan adjured David, because he loved him. For as his own soul he loved him.

Oath » Used in solemnizing covenants » Between abraham and the king of sodom

Genesis 14:22-23

And Abram answered the king of Sodom, "I lift up my hand unto the LORD God most high, possessor of heaven and earth, that I will not take of all that is thine, so much as a thread or a shoe latchet, lest thou shouldest say 'I have made Abram rich.'

Oath » Used in solemnizing covenants » Between abraham and abimelech

Genesis 21:22-23

And it chanced, the same season, that Abimelech and Phicol his chief captain spake unto Abraham saying, "God is with thee in all that thou doest. Now therefore swear unto me even here by God, that thou wilt not hurt me nor my children, nor my children's children. But that thou shalt deal with me and the country where thou art a stranger, according unto the kindness that I have showed thee."

Oath » Requires joseph to swear that he would bury him with his forefathers

Genesis 47:28-31

Moreover, Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, so that the whole age of Jacob was a hundred and forty seven years. When the time drew nigh that Israel must die, he sent for his son Joseph and said unto him, "If I have found grace in thy sight, put thy hand under my thigh and deal mercifully and truly with me, that thou bury me not in Egypt: but let me lie by my fathers, and carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burial." And he answered, "I will do as thou hast said." read more.
And he said, "Swear unto me." And he sware unto him. And then Israel bowed him unto the bed's head.

Oath » David swears to bath-sheba that solomon will be king

1 Kings 1:28-29

Then king David answered, and said, "Call me Bathsheba." And she came in and stood before him. And the king sware, saying, "As sure as the LORD, that hath rid my soul out of all adversity, liveth:

Oath » Abraham requires oath of his servant eliezer

Genesis 24:2-3

And he said unto his eldest servant of his house which had the rule over all that he had, "Put thy hand under my thigh that I may make thee swear by the LORD that is God of heaven and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son, of the daughters of the Canaanites, among which I dwell.

Genesis 24:9

And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham and sware to him as concerning that matter. Verse Concepts

Oath » Ezra requires, of the priests and levites

Ezra 10:19

And they gave their hands thereupon, that they would put away their wives: and for their trespass offering to give a ram for their trespass. Verse Concepts

Ezra 10:5

Then rose Ezra, and took an oath of the rulers, priests, and Levites, and all of Israel, that they should do according to this word: and they sware. Verse Concepts

Oath » The israelites confirm the covenant with the hivites

Joshua 9:3-20

But when the Inhabiters of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho, and Ai, they played wilily, and went and sent ambassadors: and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles old and rent and knit together again, and old clouted shoes upon their feet, and old raiment upon them and all their provision of bread was dried up and hoared. read more.
And they came unto Joshua, unto the host to Gilgal, and said unto him and unto the men of Israel, "We be come from a far country, now therefore make agreement with us." And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, "Peradventure you dwell among us, and then how should we make peace with you?" And they said unto Joshua, "We are thy servants." And Joshua said unto them, "What are ye, and whence come ye?" And they answered him, "From a very far country thy servants are come, in the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt, and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites beyond Jordan, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan which dwelt at Ashtaroth. Wherefore our elders and all the inhabiters of our country spake to us saying, 'Take victuals with you to serve by the way, and go against them, and say unto them: We are your servants.' Now therefore make a covenant of peace with us. This, our provision of bread, we took with us out of our houses, hot, the day we departed to come unto you. And now behold it is dried up and hoared. And these bottles of wine which we filled were new: and see, they be rent. And these our garments and shoes are waxen old by reason of the exceeding long journey." And the men took of their victuals, and counseled not with the mouth of the LORD. And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to save their lives: and the lords of the congregation sware unto them. But three days after they had made peace with them, they heard that they were neighbours unto them, and that they dwelt among them. For the children of Israel took their journey and came unto their cities the third day: and their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth and Kiriathjearim. And the children of Israel slew them not, because the lords of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And therefore all the multitude murmured against the lords. But all the lords said unto all the congregation, "We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel, and therefore we may not hurt them. But this we will do to them and let them live: and so shall no wrath be upon us because of the oath which we sware unto them."

Oath » So does nehemiah

Nehemiah 5:12-13

Then said they, "We will restore them again and will require nothing of them and will do as thou hast spoken." And I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do so. And I shook my lap, and said, "God shake out every man after the same manner from his house and labour, that maintaineth not this word: even thus be he shaken out, and void." And all the congregation said, "Amen," and praised the LORD. And the people did so.

Oath » Zedekiah » Violates

2 Chronicles 36:13

And thereto he rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar which had received an oath of him by God, and was too stiff necked and too hard hearted to turn unto the LORD God of Israel. Verse Concepts

Oath » Zedekiah » Swears » Jeremiah

Jeremiah 38:16

So the king swore an oath secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, "As truly as the LORD liveth, that made us these souls, I will not slay thee, nor give thee in to the hands of them that seek after thy life." Verse Concepts

Oath » Saul swears to the witch of en-dor

1 Samuel 28:10

And Saul swore to her by the LORD, saying, "As surely as the LORD liveth, there shall no harm chance thee for this thing."

Oath » The elders of gilead confirm their pledge to jephthah by

Judges 11:10

And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "The LORD be witness between us if we do not according to thy words." Verse Concepts

Oath » Jacob confirms the covenant between him and laban by

Genesis 31:53

The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, and the God of their fathers, be judge betwixt us." And Jacob sware by him that his father Isaac feared. Verse Concepts

Oath » David swears not to eat until the sun goes down

2 Samuel 3:35

And when all the people came to eat meat with David, while it was yet day, David sware, saying, "So do God to me and so thereto, if I taste bread or ought else till the sun be down." Verse Concepts

Oath » Esau confirms the sale of his birthright by

Genesis 25:33

And Jacob said, "Swear to me then this day." And he swore to him and sold his birthright unto Jacob. Verse Concepts

Oath » King of samaria confirms his word with an

2 Kings 6:31

Then he said, "God do so and so to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat tarry on him this day!" Verse Concepts

Oath » Jehoida requires an oath from the rulers

2 Kings 11:4

And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds with the captains and them of the guard, and took them into him into the house of the LORD, and made a bond with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and showed them the king's son. Verse Concepts

Oath » Peter confirms his denial of jesus by

Mark 14:71

And he began to curse and to swear, saying, "I know not this man of whom ye speak." Verse Concepts

Oath » Joseph requires a similar oath

Genesis 50:25

And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel and said, "God will not fail but visit you: see therefore that ye carry my bones hence." Verse Concepts

Oath » Gedaliah confirms his word by

Jeremiah 40:9

And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore unto them and their fellows on this manner, "Be not afraid to serve the Chaldeans; dwell in the land, and do the king of Babylon service, so shall ye prosper. Verse Concepts

Oath » Moses covenants with caleb by

Joshua 14:9

And Moses sware the same season saying, 'The land whereon thy feet have trodden, shall be thine inheritance and thy children forever because thou hast followed the LORD my God continually.' Verse Concepts

Oath » Solomon confirms his word by

1 Kings 2:23

Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, "God do so to me and so thereto if Adonijah have not spoken this word against himself. Verse Concepts

Oath » Gehazi confirms his lie by

2 Kings 5:20

And when he was departed from him a furlong of ground, Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, "Behold, my master hath spared Naaman, this Syrian, so that he hath not taken from him that which he brought! As surely as the LORD liveth, I will run after him and take somewhat." Verse Concepts

Oath » Joab confirms his word by

2 Samuel 19:7

Now therefore up and come out, and speak kindly unto thy servants, I swear by the LORD, except thou come out, there will not tarry one man with thee this night. And that will be worse unto thee, than all the evil that fell on thee from thine youth unto this hour." Verse Concepts

Oath » Saul swears to jonathan

1 Samuel 19:6

And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan and sware, "As truly as the LORD liveth, he shall not die."

Oath » So does shimei

1 Kings 2:42

And the king sent and called Shimei and said unto him, "Did I not adjure thee by the LORD, and testified unto thee saying, 'Be sure whensoever thou goest out and walkest abroad any whither, thou shalt die for it?' And thou answeredst me, 'It is good tidings that I have heard.' Verse Concepts

Oath » Elisha seals his vow to follow elijah by

2 Kings 2:2

Elijah and Elisha were going from Gilgal, and Elijah said to Elisha, "Tarry here, I pray thee, for the LORD hath sent me to Bethel." But Elisha said, "As surely as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee." And when they came to Bethel, Verse Concepts

Oath » The israelites swear in mizpeh

Judges 21:5

And the children of Israel asked, "Who are they among all the tribes of Israel that came not with the congregation unto the LORD?" For they had made a great oath concerning them that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying that they should surely die. Verse Concepts

Oath » Ruth swears to naomi

Ruth 1:17

Where thou diest, I will die, and there will be buried. The LORD do so and so to me, except that death only depart thee and me asunder." Verse Concepts

Oath » Boaz swears to ruth

Ruth 3:13

Tarry all night. And when morning is come, if he will marry thee: it is good, so let him do. But if he will not have thee, as sure as the LORD liveth I will have thee. Lie still until the morning." Verse Concepts

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