1 Samuel 29:6

29:6 So Achish summoned David and said to him, “As surely as the Lord lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you ¹  serving ²  with me in the army. ³  I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion ⁴  of the leaders, you are not reliable. ⁵ 

Yosua 2:12

2:12 So now, promise me this with an oath sworn in the Lord’s name. ⁶  Because I have shown allegiance to you, show allegiance to my family. ⁷  Give me a solemn pledge ⁸ 

Yosua 9:15

9:15 Joshua made a peace treaty with them and agreed to let them live. The leaders of the community ⁹  sealed it with an oath. ¹⁰ 

Yosua 9:19-20

9:19 but all the leaders told the whole community, “We swore an oath to them in the name of ¹¹  the Lord God of Israel. So now we can’t hurt ¹²  them! 9:20 We must let them live so we can escape the curse attached to the oath we swore to them.” ¹³ 

Yehezkiel 17:13

17:13 He took one from the royal family, ¹⁴  made a treaty with him, and put him under oath. ¹⁵  He then took the leaders of the land

Yehezkiel 17:16

17:16 “‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, surely in the city ¹⁶  of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke – in the middle of Babylon he will die!

Yehezkiel 17:19

17:19 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, I will certainly repay him ¹⁷  for despising my oath and breaking my covenant!

[29:6]  ¹ tn Heb “it is good in my eyes.” Cf. v. 7.

[29:6]  ² tn Heb “your going forth and your coming in.” The expression is a merism.

[29:6]  ³ tn Heb “camp.”

[29:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “eyes.”

[29:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “good.”

[2:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “Now, swear to me by the Lord.”

[2:12]  sn To swear an oath in the Lord’s name would make the Lord the witness and guarantor of the promise attached to the oath. If the person making the oath should go back on the promise, the Lord would judge him for breaking the contract.

[2:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “with the house of my father.”

[2:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “true sign,” that is, “an inviolable token or pledge.”

[9:15]  ⁹ tn Or “assembly.”

[9:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Joshua made peace with them and made a treaty with them to let them live, and the leaders of the community swore an oath to them.”

[9:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to them by….”

[9:19]  ¹² tn Or “touch.”

[9:20]  ¹³ tn Heb “This is what we will do to them, keeping them alive so there will not be upon us anger concerning the oath which we swore to them.”

[17:13]  ¹⁴ tn Or “descendants”; Heb “seed” (cf. v. 5).

[17:13]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “caused him to enter into an oath.”

[17:16]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “place.”

[17:19]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “place it on his head.”