Ulangan 31:19

31:19 Now write down for yourselves the following song and teach it to the Israelites. Put it into their very mouths so that this song may serve as my witness against the Israelites!

Yosua 24:27

24:27 Joshua said to all the people, “Look, this stone will be a witness against you, for it has heard everything the Lord said to us. ¹  It will be a witness against you if ²  you deny your God.”

Hakim-hakim 11:10

11:10 The leaders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The Lord will judge any grievance you have against us, ³  if we do not do as you say.” ⁴ 

Hakim-hakim 11:1

11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a brave warrior. His mother was a prostitute, but Gilead was his father. ⁵ 

1 Samuel 12:5

12:5 He said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and his chosen king ⁶  is witness this day, that you have not found any reason to accuse me.” ⁷  They said, “He is witness!”

[24:27]  ¹ tn Heb “all the words of the Lord which he spoke with us.”

[24:27]  ² tn Or “lest,” “so that you might not.”

[11:10]  ³ tn Heb “The Lord will be the one who hears between us.” For the idiom שָׁמַע בַּיִן (shama’ bayin, “to hear between”), see Deut 1:16.

[11:10]  ⁴ sn The Lord will judge…if we do not do as you say. The statement by the leaders of Gilead takes the form of a legally binding oath, which obligates them to the terms of the agreement.

[11:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “Now he was the son of a woman, a prostitute, and Gilead fathered Jephthah.”

[12:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “anointed [one].”

[12:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “that you have not found anything in my hand.”