42 Bible Verses about Vows

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Deuteronomy 23:21-23

When thou shalt vow a vow to Jehovah thy God thou shalt not delay to complete it, for Jehovah thy God requiring, will require it from thee; and it was sin in thee. And if thou shalt cease to vow, it shall not be sin in thee. That going out of thy lips, thou shalt watch and do according as thou didst vow to Jehovah thy God; a voluntary gift which thou spakest with thy mouth.

Numbers 30:2

A man when he shall vow a vow to Jehovah, or swear an oath to bind a binding upon his soul, he shall not profane his word; according to all going forth from his mouth he shall do.

Malachi 1:14

And cursed he deceiving, and there is in his flock a male, and he vowed and sacrificed a corrupt thing to Jehovah: for I am a great king, said Jehovah of armies, and my name terrible among the nations.

Numbers 30:3-8

And a woman when she shall vow a vow to Jehovah, and bind a binding in the house of her father, in her youth; And her father heard her vow and her binding which she bound upon her soul, and her father was silent to her; and all her vows stood, and all the binding which she bound upon her soul shall stand. And if her father refused her in the day of his hearing, all her vows and all her bindings which she bound upon her soul, it shall not stand; and Jehovah will forgive her, for her father refused herread more.
And if being she shall be to a husband, and her vows upon her, or the babbling of her lips which she bound upon her soul: And her husband heard in the day of his hearing, and was silent to her: and her vows stood, and the binding which she bound upon her soul shall stand. And if in the day her husband heard he shall refuse her, and he annulled her vows which were upon her, and the babbling of her lips which she bound upon her soul, and Jehovah will forgive her.

Numbers 30:10-15

And if in the house of her husband she vowed or bound a binding upon her soul with an oath: And her husband heard and was silent to her, he refused her not: and all her vows shall stand, and all the binding which she bound upon her soul shall stand. And if her husband annulling, shall annul them in the day of his hearing; all the going forth of her lips for her vows and for the binding of her soul, shall not stand: her husband annulled them, and Jehovah will forgive her.read more.
Every vow, and every oath of binding to afflict the soul, her husband shall cause it to stand, and her husband shall annul it And if her husband being silent, shall be silent to her from day to day; and he caused to stand all her vows, or, all her bindings which were upon her: he caused them to stand, for he was silent to her in the day of his hearing. And if annulling, he annulled them after his hearing; and he bore the iniquity.

Leviticus 22:17-19

And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and to all the sons of Israel, and say to them, A man, a man from the house of Irsael and from the stranger in Israel, who shall bring near his offering, for all their vows, and for all their willing gifts which they will offer to Jehovah for a burnt-offering: For your acceptance a blameless male among the cattle, among the sheep, and among the goats.

Leviticus 7:16

And if a vow or a voluntary gift, the sacrifice of his offering in the day he brought it, his sacrifice it shall be eaten; and from the morrow that remaining from it shall be eaten.

Leviticus 22:21

And when a man shall bring a sacrifice of peace to Jehovah, to separate a vow or a willing gift in cattle or in sheep, it shall be blameless for acceptance: not any blemish shall be in it

Leviticus 27:9

And if cattle which they shall make an offering from them to Jehovah, all which he shall give from it to Jehovah shall be holy.

Numbers 15:2-4

Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When ye shall come into the land of your dwellings, which I give to you, And ye did a sacrifice to Jehovah, a burnt-offering or a sacrifice to separate a vow, or in willingness, or in your assemblies, to make an odor of sweetness to Jehovah, from the oxen or from the sheep: And he bringing near, brought near his offering to Jehovah, a gift of fine flour, the tenth mingled with the fourth of the bin of oil.

Deuteronomy 12:6

And bring there your burnt-offerings and your sacrifices, and your tenths, and the offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your voluntary gifts and the first-born. of your cattle and your sheep: .

Psalm 66:13

I will go into thine house with 'burnt-offerings: I will repay to thee my vows,

Proverbs 7:14

Sacrifices of peace upon me: today I repaid my vows.

Leviticus 27:1-25

And Jehovah will speak to Moses, sayin, Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When a man shall separate a vow by thy estimation, the souls for Jehovah. And thy estimation was the male of the son of twenty years, and even to the son of sixty years; and thy estimation was fifty shekels of silver by the shekel of the holy place.read more.
And if it is a female, thy estimation was thirty shekels. And if from the son of five years, and even to the son of twenty years, and thy estimation was, the male, twenty shekels, and for the female, ten shekels. And if from the son of a month, and even to the son of five years, and thy estimation was, the male, five shekels of silver, and for the female, thy estimation, three shekels of silver. And if from the son of sixty years and from above, if a male, thy estimation was fifteen shekels, and for a female, ten shekels. And if he was poor above thy estimation, and he stood before the priest, and the priest estimated him: and according to whose mouth the hand shall attain, the priest estimated him vowing. And if cattle which they shall make an offering from them to Jehovah, all which he shall give from it to Jehovah shall be holy. He shall not change it, and he shall not exchange it, good for evil, or evil for good: and if changing, he shall change cattle for cattle, and the beast, it and its exchange shall be holy. And if any unclean cattle which they. shall not bring near from it an offering to Jehovah, and he made the quadruped to stand before the priest And the priest estimated it between good and between evil: according to thy valuation, O priest, so shall it be. And if redeeming, he shall redeem it, and he shall add its fifth upon thy estimation. And when a man shall consecrate his house holy to Jehovah, and the priest estimated it between good and between evil: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand. And if he consecrating shall redeem his house, and he shall add the fifth of the silver of thy estimation upon it, and it was to him. And if from the field of his possession a man shall consecrate to Jehovah, and thy estimation was according to its seed: the seed of an omer of barley, at fifty shekels of silver. If from the year of jubilee he shall consecrate his field, according to thy estimation it shall stand. And if after the jubilee he shall consecrate his field, and the priest reckoned to him the silver upon the month of the years remaining, till the year of the jubilee, and it was taken away from thy estimation. And if he consecrating it, redeeming, shall redeem the field, and he shall add the fifth of the silver of thy estimation upon it, and it stood to him. And if he shall not redeem the field, and if he sold the field to another man, it shall be redeemed no more. And the field in its going forth in the jubilee was holy to Jehovah, as a consecrated field: to the priest shall be its possession. And if the field of his purchase which is not from the field of his possession he shall consecrate to Jehovah; And the priest reckoned to him the number of thy estimation till the year of jubilee: and he gave thy estimation in that day, holy to Jehovah. In the year of the jubilee the field shall return to whom they bought it from him, to him to whom the possession of the land. And all thy estimation shall be according to the holy shekel: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.

2 Kings 12:4-5

And Jehoash will say to the priests, All the silver of the holies which shall come to the house of Jehovah, the silver of a man passing by, the silver of the souls of his estimation, all the silver which shall come up upon the heart of a man to bring in to the house of Jehovah, The priests shall take to themselves a man from his selling; and they shall make firm the breach of the house to all which a breach shall be found there.

Deuteronomy 23:18

Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, and the price of a dog to the house of Jehovah thy God, for any vow: for these two are also an abomination to Jehovah thy God.

1 Samuel 1:11

And she will vow a vow, and say, Jehovah of armies, if seeing, thou wilt see the affliction of thy servant and remember me, and thou wilt not forget thy servant, and give to thy servant seed of men, and I gave him to Jehovah all the days of his life, and a razor shall not come up upon his head.

Genesis 28:20-22

And Jacob will vow a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will preserve me in this way which I went, and gave to me bread to eat, and covering to put on, And I turned back in peace to my father's house; and Jehovah was to me for God. And this stone which I set a pillar shall be the house of God, and all which thou shalt give to me, the tenth I will tithe it to thee.

Numbers 21:2

And Israel will vow a vow to Jehovah, and will say, If giving, thou wilt give this people into my hand, and I exterminated their cities.

Judges 11:30-40

And Jephthah will vow a vow to Jehovah, and he will say, If giving, thou wilt give the sons of Ammon into my hand, And it was, that coming forth which shall come forth from the doors of my house to my meeting in my turning back in peace from the sons of Ammon, and it was to Jehovah; and I brought it up a burnt-offering. And Jephthah will pass over to the sons of Ammon to war against them: and Jehovah will give them into his hand.read more.
And he will strike them from Aroer even to thy going to Minnith, twenty cities, and even to the meadow of the vineyards, with a very great smiting. And the sons of Ammon will be subdued from the face of the sons of Israel. And Jephthah will come to Mizpeh to his house, and behold, his daughter will come forth to his meeting with drums and with lutes: and she the only begotten; not to him beside her, son nor daughter. And it will be when he saw her, and he will tear his garments, and will say, Alas, my daughter bowing down, thou didst bow me down, and thou art in my trouble: and I opened my mouth to Jehovah, and I shall not be able to turn back. And she will say to him, My father, opening thy mouth to Jehovah, do to me acording to what came forth from thy mouth, after that Jehovah did for thee vengeance of thine enemies, of the sons of Ammon. And she will say to her father, This word shall be done to me: desist from me two months, and I will go, and go down upon the mountains, and I will lament over my virginity, I and my friends. And he will say, Go. And he will send her away two months: and she will go and her friends, and she will lament over her virginity upon the mountains. And it will be from the end of two months, and she will turn back to her father and he will do to her his vow which he vowed: and she knew not man. And it will be a law in Israel, From days of days the daughters of Israel will go to celebrate to the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in the year.

2 Samuel 15:7-8

And it will be from the end of forty years, and Absalom will say to the king, I will go now and complete my vow which I vowed to Jehovah in Hebron. For thy servant vowed a vow in my dwelling in Geshur in Aram, saying, If turning back, Jehovah shall turn me back to Jerusalem, and I served Jehovah.

Psalm 66:13-14

I will go into thine house with 'burnt-offerings: I will repay to thee my vows, Which my lips opened and my month spake in straits to me.

Psalm 116:12-14

What shall I turn back to Jehovah for all his benefits to me? I will lift up the cup of salvation, and upon the name of Jehovah will I call. I will repay my vows to Jehovah before now to all his people.

Psalm 56:12

Upon me, O God, thy vows: I will repay praises to thee.

Psalm 116:17-18

To thee will I sacrifice a sacrifice of praise, and I will call upon the name of Jehovah. My vows to Jehovah I will repay before now to all his people,

Psalm 22:25

Of thee my praise in the great convocation: I will complete my vows before them fearing him.

Psalm 65:1

To the overseer; chanting to David a song. Praise being silent to thee, O God in Zion: and to thee shall the vow be repaid.

Numbers 6:1-21

And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When a man or woman shall separate to vow a vow, being consecrated, to be separated to Jehovah: From wine and strong drink he shall be separated; vinegar of wine and vinegar of strong drink he shall not drip and the steeping of grapes he shall not drink, and grapes fresh and dry, he shall not eatread more.
All the days of his consecration, from all which shall be made from the vine, of the wine, from the grape kernels, even to the skin, he shall not eat All the days of the vow of his consecration a razor shall not pass over upon his head: till the filling up of the days which he shall consecrate to Jehovah, he shall be holy, increasing the locks of the hair of his head. All the days of his consecrating himself to Jehovah, he shall not go in to a dead soul. For his father, and for his mother, for his brother and for his sister, he shall not be defiled for them in their dying: for the consecration of his God upon his head. All the days of his consecration he holy to Jehovah. And when the dying shall die by him suddenly, in a moment, and the head of his consecration was defiled and he shaved his head in the day of his cleansing, in the seventh day shall he shave it And in the eighth day he shall bring two turtle-doves, or two sons of the dove to the priest, to the door of the tent of appointment: And the priest did the one for sin, and one for a burnt-offering, and he expiated for him for what he sinned for the soul, and he consecrated his head in that day. And he consecrated to Jehovah the day of his consecration, and he brought a lamb, the son of a year, for trespass: and the former days shall fall because his consecration was defiled. And this the law of him consecrated: in the day of filling up the days of his consecration, he shall bring himself to the door of the tent of appointment: And he brought his offering to Jehovah, one blameless lamb, the son of his year, for a burnt-offering, and one blameless ewe lamb, the daughter of her year, for the sin, and one blameless ram for peace; And a basket of unleavened of fine flour cakes mingled with oil, and thin unleavened cakes anointed with oil, and their gifts and their libations. And the priest brought before Jehovah, and did his sin and his burnt-offering. And the ram he shall do a sacrifice of peace to Jehovah, upon the basket of unleavened: and the priest did his gift and his libation. And he being consecrated, shaved the head of his consecration at the door of the tent of appointment, and took the hair of the head of his consecration, and gave upon the fire which under the sacrifice of peace. And the priest took the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake from the basket, and one thin unleavened cake, and gave upon the hands of him consecrated, after his shaving his consecration. And the priest lifted them up a lifting up before Jehovah: it holy to the priest upon the breast of the lifting up and upon the leg of the offering: and afterwards, he being consecrated shall drink wine. This the law of him consecrated who shall vow his offering to Jehovah for his consecration, besides what his hand shall attain: according to his vow which he vowed, so shall he do according to the law of his consecration.

Judges 13:2-5

And there will be one man from Zorah from the families of the Danites, and his name Manoah; and his wife sterile, and she bare not And a messenger of Jehovah will be seen to the woman, and will say to her, Behold, now, thou art barren, and bearest not; and thou conceivedst and bearest a son. And now, watch now, and drink not wine and strong drink, and thou shalt not eat any thing unclean:read more.
For behold thee pregnant, and thou bearest a son; and a razor shall not come up upon his head, for the boy shall be consecrated to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of Philisteim.

Psalm 132:2-5

Who sware to Jehovah; he vowed to the mighty one of Jacob: If I shall go into the tent of my house, if I shall go up upon the bed of my couch; If I shall give sleep to mine eyes, slumber to mine eye-lashes,read more.
Even till I shall find a place for Jehovah, dwellings for the mighty one of Jacob.

Acts 18:18

And Paul yet having remained sufficient days, having taken leave of the brethren, sailed out to Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn the head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.

Acts 21:24-26

Having taken these, be purified with them, and expend upon them, that they might shave the head: and all might know that what they are taught about thee is nothing; but thou proceedest in regular order, also thyself watching the law. And of the nations having believed, we have written having judged them to keep nothing such, except to watch themselves from that sacrificed to idols, and blood, and strangulation, and harlotry. Then Paul having taken the men, in the following day having been purified with them, went into the temple, announcing the completion of the days of purification, till an offering be brought for each one of them.

Matthew 15:5-6

And ye say, Whoever should say to father or mother, A gift, whatever thou shouldest be profited by me; And should not honour his father or his mother. And ye have annulled the command of God by your tradition.

Mark 7:11-13

And ye say, If a man say to father or mother, Corban, which is, a gift, whatever thou be profited by me; And ye permit him to do nothing more for his father or his mother Abrogating the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.

Jeremiah 44:25-28

Thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, saying, Ye and your wives, and ye will speak with your mouth, and with your hands ye filled up; saying, Doing, we will do our vows which we vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out libations to her: setting up, ye will set up your vows, and doing, ye will do your vows. For this, hear ye the word of Jehovah, all Judah dwelling in the land of Egypt: Behold, I sware by my great name, said Jehovah, if my name shall yet be called by the mouth of all the men of Judah, saying, The Lord Jehovah lives, in all the land of Egypt Behold me watching over them for evil and not for good: and they were consumed, all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt, by sword and by famine, even till their finishing.read more.
And escaping the sword there shall turn back from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, men of number, and all the remnant of Judah going to the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose word shall be raised up from me and from them.

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Vows » Sacred, to be kept

Ecclesiastes 5:4

When thou shalt vow a vow to God, thou shalt not delay to repay it; for there is no desire in the foolish: repay what thou shalt vow.

Numbers 30:2

A man when he shall vow a vow to Jehovah, or swear an oath to bind a binding upon his soul, he shall not profane his word; according to all going forth from his mouth he shall do.

Job 22:27

And thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt repay thy vows.

Deuteronomy 23:21

When thou shalt vow a vow to Jehovah thy God thou shalt not delay to complete it, for Jehovah thy God requiring, will require it from thee; and it was sin in thee.

More verses: Matthew 5:33 Psalm 76:11

Vows » Examples of

1 Samuel 1:11

And she will vow a vow, and say, Jehovah of armies, if seeing, thou wilt see the affliction of thy servant and remember me, and thou wilt not forget thy servant, and give to thy servant seed of men, and I gave him to Jehovah all the days of his life, and a razor shall not come up upon his head.

Acts 18:18

And Paul yet having remained sufficient days, having taken leave of the brethren, sailed out to Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn the head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.

Genesis 28:20

And Jacob will vow a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will preserve me in this way which I went, and gave to me bread to eat, and covering to put on,

Numbers 21:2

And Israel will vow a vow to Jehovah, and will say, If giving, thou wilt give this people into my hand, and I exterminated their cities.

More verses: Judges 11:30 Acts 21:23

Vows » All things dedicated by, to be brought to the tabernacle

Deuteronomy 12:6

And bring there your burnt-offerings and your sacrifices, and your tenths, and the offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your voluntary gifts and the first-born. of your cattle and your sheep: .

Deuteronomy 12:11

And there was the place which Jehovah your God shall choose in it to cause his name to dwell there; there shall ye bring all which I command you: your burnt-offerings and your sacrifices, your tenths, and the offerings of your hands, and all the choice of your vows which ye shall vow to Jehovah.

Deuteronomy 12:17-18

Thou shalt not be able to eat in thy gates the tenth of thy grain, and thy new wine and thy new oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and thy flocks, and all the vows which thou shalt vow, and thy voluntaries, and the offerings of thy hand: But before Jehovah thy God thou shalt eat it, in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose in it, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy servant, and thy maid, and the Levite which is in thy gates: and rejoice thou before Jehovah thy God in all the stretching forth of thy hand.

Deuteronomy 12:26

Only thy holy things which shall be to thee, and thy vows, thou shalt lift up and go to the place which Jehovah shall choose:

Vows » Were made in reference to » Offering sacrifices

Leviticus 22:22

Blind, or broken, or cut, or flowing, or scurvy, or scabby, they shall not bring these to Jehovah, and a sacrifice ye shall not give from them upon the altar to Jehovah.

Leviticus 7:16

And if a vow or a voluntary gift, the sacrifice of his offering in the day he brought it, his sacrifice it shall be eaten; and from the morrow that remaining from it shall be eaten.

Leviticus 22:18

Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and to all the sons of Israel, and say to them, A man, a man from the house of Irsael and from the stranger in Israel, who shall bring near his offering, for all their vows, and for all their willing gifts which they will offer to Jehovah for a burnt-offering:

Vows » To be performed without delay

Deuteronomy 23:23

That going out of thy lips, thou shalt watch and do according as thou didst vow to Jehovah thy God; a voluntary gift which thou spakest with thy mouth.

Deuteronomy 23:21

When thou shalt vow a vow to Jehovah thy God thou shalt not delay to complete it, for Jehovah thy God requiring, will require it from thee; and it was sin in thee.

Vows » Recorded in scripture » Of jacob

Genesis 31:13

I the God of the house of God, where thou didst anoint there a pillar; where thou didst vow to me there a vow: now arise, go forth from this land, and turn back to the land of thy kindred.

Genesis 28:20-22

And Jacob will vow a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will preserve me in this way which I went, and gave to me bread to eat, and covering to put on, And I turned back in peace to my father's house; and Jehovah was to me for God. And this stone which I set a pillar shall be the house of God, and all which thou shalt give to me, the tenth I will tithe it to thee.

Vows » Of things corrupt or blemished an insult to God

Malachi 1:14

And cursed he deceiving, and there is in his flock a male, and he vowed and sacrificed a corrupt thing to Jehovah: for I am a great king, said Jehovah of armies, and my name terrible among the nations.

Leviticus 22:23

And an ox, and a sheep stretched out, and contracted, thou shalt do it a voluntary gift; and for a vow it shall not be accepted.

Vows » Instances of » Of hannah, to consecrate to the lord the child for which she prayed

1 Samuel 1:11

And she will vow a vow, and say, Jehovah of armies, if seeing, thou wilt see the affliction of thy servant and remember me, and thou wilt not forget thy servant, and give to thy servant seed of men, and I gave him to Jehovah all the days of his life, and a razor shall not come up upon his head.

1 Samuel 1:27-28

For this boy I prayed, and Jehovah will give to me my asking which I asked of him. And I also lent him to Jehovah; all the days which he lives he is lent to Jehovah. And they will worship to Jehovah there.

Vows » Recorded in scripture » Of certain jews with paul

Acts 21:26

Then Paul having taken the men, in the following day having been purified with them, went into the temple, announcing the completion of the days of purification, till an offering be brought for each one of them.

Acts 21:23-24

Therefore do this which we say to thee: Four men are to us having a vow upon them; Having taken these, be purified with them, and expend upon them, that they might shave the head: and all might know that what they are taught about thee is nothing; but thou proceedest in regular order, also thyself watching the law.

Vows » Rash » The israelites, to destroy the benjamites

Judges 21:5-6

And the sons of Israel will say, Who from all the tribes of Israel that went not up in the gathering to Jehovah? For there was a great oath against him who went not up to Jehovah to Mizpeh, saying, Dying, he shall die. And the sons of Israel will lament for Benjamin their brother, and they will say, There was cut off this day one tribe from Israel.

Judges 20:21

And the sons of Benjamin will come forth from Gibeah, and they will destroy in that day in Israel twenty and two thousand men to the earth.

Vows » Mosaic laws concerning

Numbers 29:39

These ye shall do to Jehovah in your appointments, besides your vows and your voluntary gifts, for your burnt-offerings, and for your gifts, and your libations, and for your peace.

Leviticus 23:37-38

These the appointments to Jehovah, which ye shall call them callings holy, to bring a sacrifice to Jehovah, a burnt-offering and a gift, a sacrifice, and libations, the word of a day in its day: Besides the Sabbaths of Jehovah, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your voluntary gifts which ye shall give to Jehovah.

Vows » To be voluntary

Deuteronomy 23:21-22

When thou shalt vow a vow to Jehovah thy God thou shalt not delay to complete it, for Jehovah thy God requiring, will require it from thee; and it was sin in thee. And if thou shalt cease to vow, it shall not be sin in thee.

Vows » Things offered in, to be brought to the tabernacle or temple

Deuteronomy 12:6

And bring there your burnt-offerings and your sacrifices, and your tenths, and the offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your voluntary gifts and the first-born. of your cattle and your sheep: .

Deuteronomy 12:11

And there was the place which Jehovah your God shall choose in it to cause his name to dwell there; there shall ye bring all which I command you: your burnt-offerings and your sacrifices, your tenths, and the offerings of your hands, and all the choice of your vows which ye shall vow to Jehovah.

Deuteronomy 12:17-18

Thou shalt not be able to eat in thy gates the tenth of thy grain, and thy new wine and thy new oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and thy flocks, and all the vows which thou shalt vow, and thy voluntaries, and the offerings of thy hand: But before Jehovah thy God thou shalt eat it, in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose in it, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy servant, and thy maid, and the Levite which is in thy gates: and rejoice thou before Jehovah thy God in all the stretching forth of thy hand.

Deuteronomy 12:26

Only thy holy things which shall be to thee, and thy vows, thou shalt lift up and go to the place which Jehovah shall choose:

Vows » The hire of a prostitute or price of a dog could not be the subject of

Deuteronomy 23:18

Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, and the price of a dog to the house of Jehovah thy God, for any vow: for these two are also an abomination to Jehovah thy God.

Vows » Clean beasts the subjects of, not to be redeemed

Leviticus 27:9-10

And if cattle which they shall make an offering from them to Jehovah, all which he shall give from it to Jehovah shall be holy. He shall not change it, and he shall not exchange it, good for evil, or evil for good: and if changing, he shall change cattle for cattle, and the beast, it and its exchange shall be holy.

Vows » Might be redeemed by paying a suitable compensation

Leviticus 27:1-8

And Jehovah will speak to Moses, sayin, Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When a man shall separate a vow by thy estimation, the souls for Jehovah. And thy estimation was the male of the son of twenty years, and even to the son of sixty years; and thy estimation was fifty shekels of silver by the shekel of the holy place. read more.
And if it is a female, thy estimation was thirty shekels. And if from the son of five years, and even to the son of twenty years, and thy estimation was, the male, twenty shekels, and for the female, ten shekels. And if from the son of a month, and even to the son of five years, and thy estimation was, the male, five shekels of silver, and for the female, thy estimation, three shekels of silver. And if from the son of sixty years and from above, if a male, thy estimation was fifteen shekels, and for a female, ten shekels. And if he was poor above thy estimation, and he stood before the priest, and the priest estimated him: and according to whose mouth the hand shall attain, the priest estimated him vowing.

Vows » Of wives, could only be objected to at the time of making

Numbers 30:14-15

And if her husband being silent, shall be silent to her from day to day; and he caused to stand all her vows, or, all her bindings which were upon her: he caused them to stand, for he was silent to her in the day of his hearing. And if annulling, he annulled them after his hearing; and he bore the iniquity.

Vows » Recorded in scripture » Of lemuel's mother

Proverbs 31:1-2

The words of Lemuel the king, the lifting up which his mother will instruct him. What, my son? and what the son of my womb? and what the son of my vows?

Vows » Recorded in scripture » Of jephthah

Judges 11:30-31

And Jephthah will vow a vow to Jehovah, and he will say, If giving, thou wilt give the sons of Ammon into my hand, And it was, that coming forth which shall come forth from the doors of my house to my meeting in my turning back in peace from the sons of Ammon, and it was to Jehovah; and I brought it up a burnt-offering.

Vows » Of married women void without consent of husbands

Numbers 30:6-8

And if being she shall be to a husband, and her vows upon her, or the babbling of her lips which she bound upon her soul: And her husband heard in the day of his hearing, and was silent to her: and her vows stood, and the binding which she bound upon her soul shall stand. And if in the day her husband heard he shall refuse her, and he annulled her vows which were upon her, and the babbling of her lips which she bound upon her soul, and Jehovah will forgive her.

Vows » Of children void without the consent of parents

Numbers 30:3-5

And a woman when she shall vow a vow to Jehovah, and bind a binding in the house of her father, in her youth; And her father heard her vow and her binding which she bound upon her soul, and her father was silent to her; and all her vows stood, and all the binding which she bound upon her soul shall stand. And if her father refused her in the day of his hearing, all her vows and all her bindings which she bound upon her soul, it shall not stand; and Jehovah will forgive her, for her father refused her

Vows » Danger of inconsiderately making

Vows » Were made in reference to » Dedicating children to God

1 Samuel 1:11

And she will vow a vow, and say, Jehovah of armies, if seeing, thou wilt see the affliction of thy servant and remember me, and thou wilt not forget thy servant, and give to thy servant seed of men, and I gave him to Jehovah all the days of his life, and a razor shall not come up upon his head.

Vows » Were made in reference to » Devoting property to God

Genesis 28:22

And this stone which I set a pillar shall be the house of God, and all which thou shalt give to me, the tenth I will tithe it to thee.

Vows » Were made in reference to » Afflicting the soul

Numbers 30:13

Every vow, and every oath of binding to afflict the soul, her husband shall cause it to stand, and her husband shall annul it

Vows » Recorded in scripture » Of elkanah

1 Samuel 1:24

And she will bring him up with her when she weaned him, with three bullocks and one ephah of flour, and a flask of wine; and she will bring him to the house of Jehovah in Shiloh, and the boy a youth.

Vows » Recorded in scripture » Of hannah

1 Samuel 1:11

And she will vow a vow, and say, Jehovah of armies, if seeing, thou wilt see the affliction of thy servant and remember me, and thou wilt not forget thy servant, and give to thy servant seed of men, and I gave him to Jehovah all the days of his life, and a razor shall not come up upon his head.

Vows » Recorded in scripture » Of david

Psalm 132:2-5

Who sware to Jehovah; he vowed to the mighty one of Jacob: If I shall go into the tent of my house, if I shall go up upon the bed of my couch; If I shall give sleep to mine eyes, slumber to mine eye-lashes, read more.
Even till I shall find a place for Jehovah, dwellings for the mighty one of Jacob.

Vows » Recorded in scripture » Of israelites

Numbers 21:2

And Israel will vow a vow to Jehovah, and will say, If giving, thou wilt give this people into my hand, and I exterminated their cities.

Vows » Of widows and women divorced from their husbands binding

Numbers 30:9

And the vow of a widow, and of her driven away, all which she bound upon her soul shall stand upon her.

Vows » To be performed faithfully

Numbers 30:2

A man when he shall vow a vow to Jehovah, or swear an oath to bind a binding upon his soul, he shall not profane his word; according to all going forth from his mouth he shall do.

Vows » Were made in reference to » Devoting the person to God

Numbers 6:2

Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When a man or woman shall separate to vow a vow, being consecrated, to be separated to Jehovah:

Vows » Instances of » Of the jews, to kill paul

Acts 23:12-15

And it being day, certain of the Jews having made a condition, anathematized themselves, saying, neither to eat or drink till they kill Paul. And there were more than forty having made this conspiracy. Who having come to the chief priests and elders, said, By an anathema, we anathematized ourselves, to taste of nothing till we kill Paul. read more.
Now therefore do ye exhibit to the captain of a thousand, with the council, so that to-morrow he might bring him down to you, as about to examine more accurately the things concerning him: and we, before he draws near, are ready to kill him.

Vows » Instances of » Of jacob, see above

Genesis 28:20-22

And Jacob will vow a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will preserve me in this way which I went, and gave to me bread to eat, and covering to put on, And I turned back in peace to my father's house; and Jehovah was to me for God. And this stone which I set a pillar shall be the house of God, and all which thou shalt give to me, the tenth I will tithe it to thee.

Vows » Rash » By jephthah, in consecration of his daughter as a sacrafice, if his campaign against the ammonites were successful

Judges 11:29-40

And the spirit of Jehovah will be upon Jephthah, and he will pass through Gilead and Manasseh, and he will pass through Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over to the sons of Ammon. And Jephthah will vow a vow to Jehovah, and he will say, If giving, thou wilt give the sons of Ammon into my hand, And it was, that coming forth which shall come forth from the doors of my house to my meeting in my turning back in peace from the sons of Ammon, and it was to Jehovah; and I brought it up a burnt-offering. read more.
And Jephthah will pass over to the sons of Ammon to war against them: and Jehovah will give them into his hand. And he will strike them from Aroer even to thy going to Minnith, twenty cities, and even to the meadow of the vineyards, with a very great smiting. And the sons of Ammon will be subdued from the face of the sons of Israel. And Jephthah will come to Mizpeh to his house, and behold, his daughter will come forth to his meeting with drums and with lutes: and she the only begotten; not to him beside her, son nor daughter. And it will be when he saw her, and he will tear his garments, and will say, Alas, my daughter bowing down, thou didst bow me down, and thou art in my trouble: and I opened my mouth to Jehovah, and I shall not be able to turn back. And she will say to him, My father, opening thy mouth to Jehovah, do to me acording to what came forth from thy mouth, after that Jehovah did for thee vengeance of thine enemies, of the sons of Ammon. And she will say to her father, This word shall be done to me: desist from me two months, and I will go, and go down upon the mountains, and I will lament over my virginity, I and my friends. And he will say, Go. And he will send her away two months: and she will go and her friends, and she will lament over her virginity upon the mountains. And it will be from the end of two months, and she will turn back to her father and he will do to her his vow which he vowed: and she knew not man. And it will be a law in Israel, From days of days the daughters of Israel will go to celebrate to the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in the year.

Vows » The redemption price of the offering of real estate, to be valued by the priest

Leviticus 27:14-15

And when a man shall consecrate his house holy to Jehovah, and the priest estimated it between good and between evil: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand. And if he consecrating shall redeem his house, and he shall add the fifth of the silver of thy estimation upon it, and it was to him.

Vows » Of a field

Leviticus 27:16-25

And if from the field of his possession a man shall consecrate to Jehovah, and thy estimation was according to its seed: the seed of an omer of barley, at fifty shekels of silver. If from the year of jubilee he shall consecrate his field, according to thy estimation it shall stand. And if after the jubilee he shall consecrate his field, and the priest reckoned to him the silver upon the month of the years remaining, till the year of the jubilee, and it was taken away from thy estimation. read more.
And if he consecrating it, redeeming, shall redeem the field, and he shall add the fifth of the silver of thy estimation upon it, and it stood to him. And if he shall not redeem the field, and if he sold the field to another man, it shall be redeemed no more. And the field in its going forth in the jubilee was holy to Jehovah, as a consecrated field: to the priest shall be its possession. And if the field of his purchase which is not from the field of his possession he shall consecrate to Jehovah; And the priest reckoned to him the number of thy estimation till the year of jubilee: and he gave thy estimation in that day, holy to Jehovah. In the year of the jubilee the field shall return to whom they bought it from him, to him to whom the possession of the land. And all thy estimation shall be according to the holy shekel: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.

Vows » Solemn promises made to God

Psalm 76:11

Vow, ye, and repay to Jehovah your God: all being round about him shall bring a gift for fear.

Vows » Recorded in scripture » Of mariners who cast out jonah

Vows » Recorded in scripture » Of paul

Acts 18:18

And Paul yet having remained sufficient days, having taken leave of the brethren, sailed out to Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn the head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.

Vows » Instances of » Of absalom

2 Samuel 15:7-8

And it will be from the end of forty years, and Absalom will say to the king, I will go now and complete my vow which I vowed to Jehovah in Hebron. For thy servant vowed a vow in my dwelling in Geshur in Aram, saying, If turning back, Jehovah shall turn me back to Jerusalem, and I served Jehovah.

Vows » Edible things offered in, to be eaten the same day they were offered

Leviticus 7:16-18

And if a vow or a voluntary gift, the sacrifice of his offering in the day he brought it, his sacrifice it shall be eaten; and from the morrow that remaining from it shall be eaten. And the remainder from the flesh of the sacrifice in the third day shall be burnt in fire. And if eating, he shall eat from the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace in the third day, it shall not be accepted; he bringing it near, it shall not be imputed to him: it shall be an abomination, and the soul eating from it shall bear its iniquity.

Vows » A minor, of himself

Mark 7:11-13

And ye say, If a man say to father or mother, Corban, which is, a gift, whatever thou be profited by me; And ye permit him to do nothing more for his father or his mother Abrogating the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.

Vows » Recorded in scripture » Of jonah

Vows » Instances of » Of ananias and sapphira, in the dedication of the proceeds of the sale of their land

Acts 5:1-11

And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, And separated from the price, his wife also knowing; and having brought a certain part, laid at the feet of the sent. And Peter said, Ananias, wherefore filled Satan thy heart, for thee to belie the Holy Spirit, and separate from the price of the farm read more.
Remaining, did it not remain to thee? and sold, it was in thy power: for what hast thou put this thing in thy heart? thou hast not lied to men, but to God. And Ananias hearing these words, having fallen down, he expired: and great fear was upon all them hearing these things. And the younger having risen up, drew him together, and having carried out, interred. And there was an interval of about three hours, and his wife not knowing that done, came in. And Peter answered to her, Tell me, if for so much ye sold the farm? And she said, Yes, for so much. And Peter said to her, For what was it agreed by you to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them having interred thy husband at the door, and they shall carry thee out. And she fell immediately at his feet, and expired: and the young men having come in, found her dead, and having carried out, interred near her husband. And great fear was upon the whole church, and upon all having heard these things.

Vows » Instances of » Of the mother of micah, in the dedication of silver for the making of an idol

Judges 17:2-3

And he will say to his mother, The thousand and one hundred of silver which was taken for thee, and thou cursedst me, and saidst also in mine ears, behold, the silver with me; I took it And his mother will say, Blessed my son to Jehovah. And he will turn back the thousand and hundred of silver to his mother, and his mother will say, Consecrating, I consecrated the silver to Jehovah from my hand to my son, to make a carved thing and a molten: and now I will turn it back to thee.

Vows » Instances of » Of job, not to entertain thoughts of fornication

Vows » Instances of » Of elkanah

1 Samuel 1:21

And the man Elkanah and all his house will go up to sacrifice to Jehovah the sacrifice of days, and his vow.

Vows » Instances of » Of david

Psalm 132:2

Who sware to Jehovah; he vowed to the mighty one of Jacob:

Vows » Belonged to the priests

Numbers 18:14

Every thing consecrated in Israel shall be to thee.

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Ecclesiastes 5:4-8

When thou shalt vow a vow to God, thou shalt not delay to repay it; for there is no desire in the foolish: repay what thou shalt vow.

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