Numbers 30:2
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| Overview - Numbers 30 | |
| 1 | Vows are not to be broken. |
| 3 | The exceptions of a maid's vows; |
| 6 | of a wife's; |
| 9 | of a widow's; or her that is divorced. |
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Numbers 30:2 (King James Version)
If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
- If a man
- The preceding chapters had treated of sacrifices required by law; and in the laws here delivered in respect to vows must have been very useful, as they both prevented and annulled rash vows, and provided a proper sanction for the support and performance of those which were rationally made, and which were made to the Lord.
- vow a vow
- 21:2 Genesis 28:20-22 ; Leviticus 27:2-34 ; Deuteronomy 23:21 Deuteronomy 23:22 ; Judges 11:11 Judges 11:30 Judges 11:31 Judges 11:35 Judges 11:36
- Judges 11:39 ; Psalms 15:3 ; 56:12 76:11 119:106 Proverbs 20:25
- swear
- Exodus 20:7 ; Leviticus 5:4 ; Matthew 5:33 Matthew 5:34 ; 14:7-9 Acts 23:12 ; 2 Corinthians 1:23 ; 9:9-11
- to bind
- Numbers 30:3 Numbers 30:4 Numbers 30:10 ; Matthew 23:16 Matthew 23:18 ; *Gr:
- Acts 23:12 Acts 23:14 Acts 23:21
- break
- Hebrew profane.
- Psalms 55:20 ; *marg:
- he shall do
- Job 22:27 ; Psalms 22:25 ; 50:14 Psalms 66:13 Psalms 66:14 Psalms 116:14 Psalms 116:18 Ecclesiastes 5:4 Ecclesiastes 5:5 ; Nahum 1:15