And Abram
said
to the king
of Sodom,
I have
lift up mine hand
unto the LORD,
the most high God,
the possessor
of heaven
and earth,
That I
will not take
from a thread
even to a shoelatchet,
and that I
will not take
any thing
that is thine,
lest
thou shouldest say,
I have made Abram rich:
And it
came
to pass
at that time,
that Abimelech
and Phichol
the chief captain
of his host
spake unto Abraham,
saying,
God is with thee
in all
that thou doest:
Now therefore swear
unto me here
by God
that thou
wilt not deal falsely
with me,
nor with my son,
nor
with my son's son:
but
according to
the kindness that
I have done
unto thee,
thou
shalt do unto me,
and to the land
wherein thou
hast sojourned.
And said,
By myself
have
I sworn,
saith the LORD,
for because
thou hast done
this thing,
and hast not withheld
thy son,
thine only son:
And Abraham
said
unto his eldest servant
of his house,
that ruled
over all
that
he had,
Put,
I pray thee,
thy hand
under my thigh:
And I
will make
thee
swear
by the LORD,
the God
of heaven,
and the God
of the earth,
that thou
shalt not take a wife
unto my son
of the daughters
of the Canaanites,
among whom
I dwell:
And the servant
put
his hand
under the thigh
of Abraham
his master,
and sware
to him concerning that matter.
And Jacob said,
Swear
to me this day;
and
he sware unto him:
and he
sold
his birthright
unto Jacob.
Then Abimelech
went
to him
from Gerar,
and Ahuzzath one
of his friends,
and Phichol
the chief captain
of his army.
And Isaac
said unto them,
Wherefore
come
ye to me,
seeing
ye hate me,
and have sent me away
from you?
And they said,
We saw certainly
that the LORD
was with thee:
and we said,
Let there be now
an oath
betwixt us,
even betwixt us and thee,
and let us
make a covenant
with thee;
That thou
wilt do us
no hurt,
as we
have not touched thee,
and as we
have done
unto thee nothing
but good,
and have sent thee
away in peace:
thou art
now the blessed
of the LORD.
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.
The God
of Abraham,
and the God
of Nahor,
the God
of their father,
judge betwixt us.
And Jacob
sware by the fear
of his father Isaac.
And Jacob
lived
in the land
of Egypt seventeen years:
so the whole age
of Jacob
was an hundred forty
and seven years.
And the time
drew nigh
that Israel
must die:
and
he called
his son Joseph,
and
said unto him,
If now
I have found
grace in thy sight,
put,
I pray thee,
thy hand
under my thigh,
and deal kindly
and
truly with me;
bury me not,
I pray thee,
in Egypt:
But I
will lie
with my fathers,
and
thou
shalt carry me out of Egypt,
and bury me
in their buryingplace.
And he said,
I will do
as thou
hast said.
And he said,
Swear unto me.
And
he sware unto him.
And Israel
bowed himself
upon the bed's head.
And Joseph
took
an oath
of the children
of Israel,
saying,
God will surely visit you,
and
ye shall carry
up my bones
from hence.
Thou shalt not take
the name
of the LORD
thy God in vain;
for the LORD
will not hold him guiltless
that taketh
his name
in vain.
If a man
deliver
unto his neighbour an ass,
or an ox,
or a sheep,
or any beast,
to keep;
and it die,
or be hurt,
or driven away,
no man
seeing it:
Then shall
an oath
of the LORD
be between them both,
that he
hath not put his hand
unto his neighbour's goods;
and the owner of it
shall accept
thereof,
and
he shall not make it good.
Thou shalt not raise
a false report:
put not thine hand
with the wicked
to be an unrighteous witness.
If a soul sin,
and commit
a trespass
against the LORD,
and lie
unto his neighbour
in that which
was delivered him
to keep,
or in fellowship,
or in a thing
taken away
by violence,
or hath deceived
his neighbour;
Or have found
that which
was lost,
and lieth concerning it,
and sweareth falsely;
in any
of all these
that a man doeth,
sinning therein:
Then it
shall be,
because
he hath sinned,
and is guilty,
that he
shall restore that
which he
took
violently away,
or the thing
which he
hath deceitfully gotten,
or that which
was delivered him
to keep,
or the lost thing
which he found,
Or all
that about
which he
hath sworn falsely;
he shall even restore it
in the principal,
and shall add
the fifth part
more thereto,
and give it
unto him to whom
it appertaineth,
in the day
of his trespass offering.
And
ye shall not swear
by my name falsely,
neither shalt thou
profane the name
of thy God:
I am the LORD.
And the priest
shall charge her
by an oath,
and say
unto the woman,
If no man
have lain
with thee,
and
if thou
hast not gone aside
to uncleanness
with another
instead of thy husband,
be thou
free
from this bitter
water that
causeth the curse:
But
if thou
hast gone aside
to another
instead of thy husband,
and
if thou
be defiled,
and some man
have lain
with thee
beside thine
husband:
Then the priest
shall charge
the woman
with an oath
of cursing,
and the priest
shall say
unto the woman,
The LORD
make thee a curse
and an oath
among thy people,
when the LORD
doth make
thy thigh to rot,
and thy belly
to swell;
And this water
that causeth
the curse
shall go
into thy bowels,
to make
thy belly
to swell,
and thy thigh
to rot:
And the woman
shall say,
Amen,
amen.
And the priest
shall write
these curses
in a book,
and he
shall blot
them out
with the bitter water:
And
he shall cause
the woman
to drink
the bitter
water that
causeth the curse:
and the water
that causeth
the curse
shall enter
into her,
and become bitter.
Thou shalt fear
the LORD thy God,
and serve him,
and shalt swear
by his name.
Now therefore,
I pray you,
swear unto me
by the LORD,
since I
have shewed
you kindness,
that ye
will also shew kindness
unto my father's house,
and give me
a true token:
And
that ye
will save
alive my father,
and my mother,
and my brethren,
and my sisters,
and all that
they have,
and deliver
our lives
from death.
And the men
answered her,
Our life
for yours,
if ye
utter not
this our business.
And it
shall be,
when the LORD
hath given us
the land,
that we
will deal kindly
and
truly with thee.
But Joshua
had said
unto the two men
that had spied
out the country,
Go into the harlot's house,
and bring
out thence the woman,
and all that
she hath,
as ye
sware unto her.
And
when the inhabitants
of Gibeon heard
what Joshua
had done
unto Jericho
and to Ai,
They did work
wilily,
and went
and made
as if
they had been
ambassadors,
and took old sacks
upon their asses,
and wine bottles,
old,
and rent,
and bound up;
And old shoes
and clouted
upon their feet,
and old garments
upon them;
and all
the bread
of their provision
was dry
and mouldy.
And
they went to Joshua
unto the camp
at Gilgal,
and
said unto him,
and to the men
of Israel,
We be come
from a far country:
now therefore
make
ye a league
with us.
And the men
of Israel
said unto the Hivites,
Peradventure
ye dwell among us;
and how shall
we make
a league
with you?
And they
said
unto Joshua,
We are thy servants.
And Joshua
said unto them,
Who are ye?
and
from whence come ye?
And
they
said unto him,
From a very far country
thy servants
are come
because
of 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,
that were beyond Jordan,
to Sihon king
of Heshbon,
and to Og king
of Bashan,
which was at Ashtaroth.
Wherefore our elders
and all
the inhabitants
of our country
spake to us,
saying,
Take victuals
with you
for the journey,
and go
to meet them,
and
say unto them,
We are your servants:
therefore now
make
ye a league
with us.
This our bread
we took hot
for our provision
out of our houses
on the day
we came forth
to go unto you;
but now,
behold,
it is dry,
and it
is mouldy:
And these bottles
of wine,
which we filled,
were new;
and,
behold,
they be rent:
and these
our garments
and our shoes
are become old
by reason
of the very long journey.
And the men
took of their victuals,
and asked not
counsel
at the mouth
of the LORD.
And Joshua made peace
with them,
and made
a league
with them,
to let them live:
and the princes
of the congregation
sware unto them.
And it
came
to pass
at the end
of three days after
they had made
a league
with them,
that
they heard
that they
were their neighbours,
and
that they
dwelt among them.
And the children
of Israel journeyed,
and came
unto their cities
on the third day.
Now their cities
were Gibeon,
and Chephirah,
and Beeroth,
and Kirjathjearim.
And the children
of Israel
smote them not,
because the princes
of the congregation
had sworn
unto them
by the LORD God
of Israel.
And all
the congregation
murmured
against the princes.
But all
the princes
said
unto all
the congregation,
We have sworn
unto them
by the LORD God
of Israel:
now therefore
we may not touch them.
This
we will do
to them;
we will even let them live,
lest wrath
be upon us,
because
of the oath
which we
sware unto them.
And Moses
sware on that day,
saying,
Surely the land
whereon thy feet
have trodden
shall be
thine inheritance,
and thy children's
for ever,
because
thou hast wholly followed
the LORD my God.
And
the elders
of Gilead
said unto Jephthah,
The LORD
be witness between us,
if we
do not so according to
thy words.
And the children
of Israel said,
Who is there
among all the tribes
of Israel
that came not
up with the congregation
unto the LORD?
For they
had made
a great oath
concerning
him that
came not
up to the LORD
to Mizpeh,
saying,
He shall surely be put
to death.
Where thou diest,
will
I die,
and there will
I be buried:
the LORD
do so to me,
and more also,
if ought
but death
part thee
and me.
Tarry this night,
and it
shall be
in the morning,
that if
he will perform
unto thee
the part
of a kinsman,
well;
let him
do the kinsman's part:
but
if he
will not do
the part
of a kinsman
to thee,
then will
I do
the part
of a kinsman
to thee,
as the LORD liveth:
lie down until the morning.
And Saul
hearkened
unto the voice
of Jonathan:
and Saul sware,
As the LORD liveth,
he shall not be slain.
And David
sware moreover,
and said,
Thy father
certainly knoweth that
I have found
grace
in thine eyes;
and he saith,
Let
not Jonathan
know this,
lest
he be grieved:
but truly as the LORD liveth,
and as thy soul liveth,
there is
but a step
between me and death.
The LORD
do so
and much more
to Jonathan:
but
if it
please
my father
to do thee evil,
then
I will shew it 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 not only
while yet
I live
shew me the kindness
of the LORD,
that I
die not:
But also
thou shalt not cut off
thy kindness
from my house
for ever:
no,
not
when the LORD
hath cut off
the enemies
of David every one
from the face
of the earth.
So Jonathan
made
a covenant
with the house
of David,
saying,
Let the LORD
even require it
at the hand
of David's enemies.
And Jonathan
caused
David
to swear again,
because
he loved him:
for he
loved him as he
loved
his own soul.
Swear now
therefore unto me
by the LORD,
that thou
wilt not cut off my seed
after me,
and
that thou
wilt 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
them up
unto the hold.
And Saul
sware to her
by the LORD,
saying,
As the LORD liveth,
there shall
no punishment
happen
to thee
for this thing.
And
when all
the people
came to cause
David to eat meat
while it
was yet day,
David sware,
saying,
So do God to me,
and more also,
if I
taste bread,
or ought else,
till the sun
be down.
Now therefore arise,
go forth,
and speak comfortably
unto thy servants:
for I
swear
by the LORD,
if thou
go not forth,
there will not tarry one
with thee
this night:
and that
will be worse
unto thee
than all
the evil
that befell thee
from thy youth
until now.
But the king
spared Mephibosheth,
the son
of Jonathan
the son of Saul,
because
of the LORD's oath
that was between them,
between David
and Jonathan
the son
of Saul.
Then
king David
answered
and said,
Call me Bathsheba.
And she
came
into the king's presence,
and stood
before the king.
And the king sware,
and said,
As the LORD liveth,
that hath redeemed
my soul
out of all distress,
Then king Solomon
sware by the LORD,
saying,
God do so to me,
and more also,
if Adonijah
have not spoken
this word
against his own life.
And the king
sent
and called for
Shimei,
and
said unto him,
Did I
not make thee
to swear
by the LORD,
and protested
unto thee,
saying,
Know for a certain,
on the day
thou goest out,
and walkest abroad any
whither,
that thou
shalt surely die?
and
thou saidst
unto me,
The word that
I have heard
is good.
If any man
trespass
against his neighbour,
and an oath
be laid
upon him to cause him
to swear,
and the oath
come
before thine altar
in this house:
Then hear
thou in heaven,
and do,
and judge
thy servants,
condemning
the wicked,
to bring his way
upon his head;
and justifying
the righteous,
to give him according to
his righteousness.
And Elijah
said
unto Elisha,
Tarry here,
I pray thee;
for the LORD
hath sent me
to Bethel.
And Elisha
said unto him,
As the LORD liveth,
and as thy soul liveth,
I will not leave thee.
So they
went down
to Bethel.
But Gehazi,
the servant
of Elisha
the man of God,
said,
Behold,
my master
hath spared
Naaman this Syrian,
in not receiving
at his hands
that which
he brought:
but,
as the LORD liveth,
I will run
after him,
and
take somewhat of him.
Then he said,
God do so
and more also to me,
if the head
of Elisha
the son
of Shaphat
shall stand
on him this day.
And the seventh year Jehoiada
sent and fetched
the rulers
over hundreds,
with the captains
and the guard,
and brought them
to him
into the house
of the LORD,
and made
a covenant
with them,
and took
an oath
of them
in the house
of the LORD,
and shewed them
the king's son.
And
he also rebelled
against king Nebuchadnezzar,
who had made him
swear by God:
but
he stiffened
his neck,
and hardened
his heart
from turning
unto the LORD God
of Israel.
Then arose Ezra,
and made
the chief priests,
the Levites,
and all Israel,
to swear
that they
should do according to
this word.
And they sware.
And
they gave
their hands
that they
would put away
their wives;
and being guilty,
they offered a ram
of the flock
for their trespass.
Then said they,
We will restore them,
and will require nothing
of them;
so will
we do
as thou sayest.
Then
I called
the priests,
and took
an oath
of them,
that they
should do according to
this promise.
Also I
shook my lap,
and said,
So God
shake
out every man
from his house,
and
from his labour,
that performeth not
this promise,
even thus
be he shaken out,
and emptied.
And all
the congregation said,
Amen,
and praised
the LORD.
And the people
did according to
this promise.
Lord,
who shall abide in
thy tabernacle?
who shall dwell
in thy holy hill?
He that
walketh uprightly,
and worketh righteousness,
and speaketh
the truth
in his heart.
In whose eyes
a vile person
is contemned;
but
he honoureth them
that fear the LORD.
He that
sweareth to his own hurt,
and changeth not.
Once have
I sworn
by my holiness
that I
will not lie
unto David.
Unto whom
I sware in my wrath
that they
should not enter
into my rest.
Which covenant
he made
with Abraham,
and his oath
unto Isaac;
The LORD
hath sworn
in truth
unto David;
he will not turn
from it;
Of the fruit
of thy body
will
I set
upon thy throne.
I counsel thee
to keep
the king's commandment,
and
that in regard
of the oath
of God.
The LORD of hosts
hath sworn,
saying,
Surely as I
have thought,
so shall it come
to pass;
and as I
have purposed,
so shall
it stand:
I have sworn
by myself,
the word
is gone
out of my mouth
in righteousness,
and shall not return,
That unto me every knee
shall bow,
every tongue
shall swear.
Hear ye this,
O house of Jacob,
which are called by the name
of Israel,
and are come forth
out of the waters
of Judah,
which swear
by the name
of the LORD,
and make
mention
of the God
of Israel,
but not in truth,
nor
in righteousness.
And
thou shalt swear,
The LORD liveth,
in truth,
in judgment,
and
in righteousness;
and the nations
shall bless themselves in him,
and in him shall
they glory.
And
though they say,
The LORD liveth;
surely
they swear falsely.
How shall
I pardon thee
for this?
thy children
have forsaken me,
and sworn
by them that
are
no gods:
when
I had fed them
to the full,
they
then committed
adultery,
and assembled themselves
by troops
in the harlots' houses.
Behold,
ye trust
in lying words,
that cannot profit.
Will
ye steal,
murder,
and commit
adultery,
and swear falsely,
and burn
incense
unto Baal,
and walk
after other gods whom
ye know not;
That I
may perform
the oath
which I
have sworn
unto your fathers,
to give them
a land
flowing
with milk
and honey,
as it is this day.
Then answered I,
and said,
So be it,
O LORD.
And it
shall come
to pass,
if they
will diligently learn
the ways
of my people,
to swear
by my name,
The LORD liveth;
as they
taught my people
to swear by Baal;
then shall
they be built
in the midst
of my people.
But
if ye
will not hear
these words,
I swear
by myself,
saith the LORD,
that this house
shall become
a desolation.
So Zedekiah
the king
sware secretly
unto Jeremiah,
saying,
As the LORD liveth,
that made us
this soul,
I will not put thee
to death,
neither will
I give thee
into the hand
of these men
that seek
thy life.
And Gedaliah
the son
of Ahikam
the son
of Shaphan
sware unto them
and
to their men,
saying,
Fear not
to serve the Chaldeans:
dwell
in the land,
and serve
the king
of Babylon,
and it
shall be well
with you.
For I
have sworn
by myself,
saith the LORD,
that Bozrah
shall become
a desolation,
a reproach,
a waste,
and a curse;
and all
the cities
thereof shall be perpetual
wastes.
The LORD of hosts
hath sworn
by himself,
saying,
Surely I
will fill thee
with men,
as with caterpillers;
and
they shall lift
up a shout
against thee.
Yea,
all Israel
have transgressed
thy law,
even by departing,
that they
might not obey
thy voice;
therefore the curse
is poured upon us,
and the oath
that is written
in the law
of Moses
the servant
of God,
because
we have sinned against him.
And
I heard
the man
clothed in linen,
which was upon the waters
of the river,
when he
held up
his right hand
and his left hand
unto heaven,
and sware by him that
liveth for ever
that it
shall be
for a time,
times,
and an half;
and
when
he shall have accomplished
to scatter the power
of the holy people,
all these things
shall be finished.
Though thou,
Israel,
play the harlot,
yet let not Judah offend;
and come not
ye unto Gilgal,
neither go
ye up to Bethaven,
nor swear,
The LORD liveth.
Again,
ye have heard
that it
hath been said
by them
of old time,
Thou
shalt not forswear
thyself,
but shalt perform
unto the Lord thine oaths:
But
I say unto you,
Swear not at all;
neither by heaven;
for it
is God's throne:
Nor by the earth;
for it
is his footstool:
neither by Jerusalem;
for it
is the city
of the great King.
Neither shalt thou
swear by thy head,
because
thou canst
not make one hair
white
or black.
But let
your communication be,
Yea,
yea;
Nay,
nay:
for whatsoever is more than
these cometh of evil.
Whereupon
he promised
with an oath
to give her
whatsoever she would ask.
And the king
was sorry:
nevertheless for the oath's sake,
and them which
sat with him
at meat,
he commanded it
to be given her.
And,
Whosoever
shall swear
by the altar,
it is nothing;
but whosoever
sweareth by the gift
that is upon it,
he is guilty.
Ye fools
and blind:
for whether
is greater,
the gift,
or the altar
that sanctifieth the gift?
Whoso therefore shall swear
by the altar,
sweareth by it,
and
by all things thereon.
And whoso
shall swear
by the temple,
sweareth by it,
and by him that
dwelleth therein.
And
he that
shall swear
by heaven,
sweareth by the throne
of God,
and by him that
sitteth thereon.
But Jesus
held his peace,
And the high priest
answered
and
said unto him,
I adjure thee
by the living God,
that thou
tell us
whether thou
be the Christ,
the Son
of God.
But
he began to curse
and
to swear,
saying,
I know not
this man of whom
ye speak.
The oath
which he
sware to our father Abraham,
And
when it
was day,
certain
of the Jews banded together,
and bound themselves
under a curse,
saying
that they
would
neither eat
nor drink
till they
had killed Paul.
And
they were more than forty which
had made
this conspiracy.
And they
came
to the chief priests
and elders,
and said,
We have bound ourselves
under a great curse,
that we
will eat nothing
until we
have slain Paul.
Moreover I
call God
for a record
upon my soul,
that to spare you
I came not
as yet unto Corinth.
Now the things
which I
write unto you,
behold,
before God,
I lie not.
So I
sware in my wrath,
They
shall not enter
into my rest.)
And
to whom
sware
he that
they should not enter
into his rest,
but to them
that believed not?
For we
which have believed
do enter
into rest,
as he said,
As I
have sworn
in my wrath,
if they
shall enter
into my rest:
although the works
were finished from the foundation
of the world.
For when God
made promise
to Abraham,
because
he could swear
by no greater,
he sware by himself,
Saying,
Surely
blessing
I will bless thee,
and multiplying
I will multiply thee.
For men
verily swear
by the greater:
and
an oath
for confirmation
is to them
an end
of all strife.
Wherein God,
willing
more abundantly
to shew
unto the heirs
of promise
the immutability
of his counsel,
confirmed
it by an oath:
(For those priests
were made
without an oath;
but this
with an oath
by him that
said unto him,
The Lord
sware and will not repent,
Thou art a priest
for ever after the order
of Melchisedec:)
For the law
maketh men high priests
which have infirmity;
but the word
of the oath,
which was
since the law,
maketh the Son,
who is consecrated
for evermore.
But above all things,
my brethren,
swear not,
neither by heaven,
neither by the earth,
neither by any other oath:
but let
your yea
be yea;
and your nay,
nay;
lest
ye fall
into condemnation.
And the angel
which I
saw
stand
upon the sea
and upon the earth
lifted
up his hand
to heaven,
And sware by him that
liveth for ever
and ever,
who created
heaven,
and the things
that therein are,
and the earth,
and the things
that therein are,
and the sea,
and the things which
are therein,
that there should be
time no longer: