1 Samuel 14:24
And all the people were with Saul, about twenty thousand men, and the fight was general through all the hill-country of Ephraim; but Saul made a great error that day, by putting the people under an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed who takes food before evening comes and I have given punishment to those who are against me. So the people had not a taste of food.
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1 Samuel 14:24
And all the people were with Saul, about twenty thousand men, and the fight was general through all the hill-country of Ephraim; but Saul made a great error that day, by putting the people under an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed who takes food before evening comes and I have given punishment to those who are against me. So the people had not a taste of food.
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Genesis 14:22
But Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have taken an oath to the Lord, the Most High God, maker of heaven and earth,
Genesis 21:23
Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living.
Genesis 21:31
So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.
Genesis 21:32
So they made an agreement at Beer-sheba, and Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, went back to the land of the Philistines.
Genesis 26:31
And early in the morning they took an oath one to the other: then Isaac sent them away and they went on their way in peace.
Genesis 31:44
Come, let us make an agreement, you and I; and let it be for a witness between us.
1 Samuel 20:3
But David took his oath again and said, Your father sees that I am dear to you; so he says to himself, Let Jonathan have no idea of this, for it will be a grief to him; but as the Lord is living, and as your soul is living, there is only a step between me and death.
1 Samuel 20:16
And if it comes about that the name of Jonathan is cut off from the family of David, the Lord will make David responsible.
1 Samuel 20:17
And Jonathan again took an oath to David, because of his love for him: for David was as dear to him as his very soul.
1 Samuel 30:15
And David said to him, Will you take me down to this band? And he said, If you give me your oath that you will not put me to death or give me up to my master, I will take you to them.
Hebrews 6:16
For men at all times make their oaths by what is greater; and any argument is ended by the decision of the oath.
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Genesis 25:23
And the Lord said to her, Two nations are in your body, and two peoples will come to birth from you: the one will be stronger than the other, and the older will be the servant of the younger.
Genesis 27:13
And his mother said, Let the curse be on me, my son: only do as I say, and go and get them for me.
Genesis 43:9
Put him into my care and make me responsible for him: if I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.
1 Samuel 25:24
And falling at his feet she said, May the wrong be on me, my lord, on me: let your servant say a word to you, and give ear to the words of your servant.
1 Samuel 25:33
A blessing on your good sense and on you, who have kept me today from the crime of blood and from taking into my hands the punishment for my wrongs.
2 Samuel 14:9
And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, My lord, O king, may the sin be on me and on my family, and may the king and the seat of his kingdom be clear of sin!
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Genesis 31:32
As for your gods, if anyone of us has them, let him be put to death: make search before us all for what is yours, and take it. For Jacob had no knowledge that Rachel had taken them.
Isaiah 2:22
Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.
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Leviticus 5:4
Or if anyone, without thought, takes an oath to do evil or to do good, whatever he says without thought, with an oath, having no knowledge of what he is doing; when it becomes clear to him, he will be responsible for any of these things.
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Numbers 5:19
And he will make her take an oath, and say to her, If no man has been your lover and you have not been with another in place of your husband, you are free from this bitter water causing the curse;
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Numbers 5:20
But if you have been with another in place of your husband and have made yourself unclean with a lover:
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Deuteronomy 21:23
Do not let his body be on the tree all night, but put it to rest in the earth the same day; for the man who undergoes hanging is cursed by God; so do not make unclean the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.
Deuteronomy 27:26
Cursed is he who does not take this law to heart to do it. And let all the people say, So be it.
1 Samuel 26:19
Let my lord the king give ear now to the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who is moving you against me, let him take an offering: but if it is the children of men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for driving me out today and keeping me from my place in the heritage of the Lord, saying, Go, be the servant of other gods.
Nehemiah 10:29
They were united with their brothers, their rulers, and put themselves under a curse and an oath, to keep their steps in the way of God's law, which was given by Moses, the servant of God, and to keep and do all the orders of the Lord, our Lord, and his decisions and his rules;
Nehemiah 13:25
And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
Psalms 31:13
False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.
Proverbs 11:9
With his mouth the evil man sends destruction on his neighbour; but through knowledge the upright are taken out of trouble.
Isaiah 53:7
Men were cruel to him, but he was gentle and quiet; as a lamb taken to its death, and as a sheep before those who take her wool makes no sound, so he said not a word.
Galatians 1:8
But even if we, or an angel from heaven, were to be a preacher to you of good news other than that which we have given you, let there be a curse on him.
Galatians 3:13
Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree:
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Joshua 6:17
And the town will be put to the curse, and everything in it will be given to the Lord: only Rahab, the loose woman, and all who are in the house with her, will be kept safe, because she kept secret the men we sent.
Joshua 6:18
And as for you, keep yourselves from the cursed thing, for fear that you may get a desire for it and take some of it for yourselves, and so be the cause of a curse and great trouble on the tents of Israel.
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Joshua 9:14
And the men took some of their food, without requesting directions from the Lord.
1 Samuel 14:19
Now while Saul was talking to the priest, the noise in the tents of the Philistines became louder and louder; and Saul said to the priest, Take back your hand.
Psalms 106:13
But their memory of his works was short; not waiting to be guided by him,
Isaiah 28:16
For this cause says the Lord God, See, I am placing in Zion as a base, a stone, a tested stone, an angle-stone which is certain and of great value: and he who has faith will not give way.
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Judges 1:28
And whenever Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced work, without driving them out completely.
Judges 5:2
Because of the flowing hair of the fighters in Israel, because the people gave themselves freely, give praise to the Lord.
Psalms 18:47
It is God who sends punishment on my haters, and puts peoples under my rule.
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Judges 2:15
Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had taken his oath it would be; and things became very hard for them.
Judges 10:9
And the children of Ammon went over Jordan, to make war against Judah and Benjamin and the house of Ephraim; and Israel was in great trouble.
1 Samuel 13:6
When the men of Israel saw the danger they were in, (for the people were troubled,) they took cover in cracks in the hillsides and in the woods and in rocks and holes and hollows.
1 Samuel 14:22
And all the men of Israel who had taken cover in the hill-country of Ephraim, hearing that the Philistines had been put to flight, went after them, attacking them.
1 Samuel 30:6
And David was greatly troubled; for the people were talking of stoning him, because their hearts were bitter, every man sorrowing for his sons and his daughters: but David made himself strong in the Lord his God.
2 Corinthians 4:8
Troubles are round us on every side, but we are not shut in; things are hard for us, but we see a way out of them;
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Judges 11:32
So Jephthah went over to the children of Ammon to make war on them; and the Lord gave them into his hands.
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Leviticus 27:2
Say to the children of Israel, If a man makes a special oath, you will give your decision as to the value of the persons for the Lord.
Leviticus 27:3
And you will put the value of a male from twenty years to sixty years old at fifty shekels of silver, by the scale of the holy place.
Deuteronomy 23:23
Whatever your lips have said, see that you do it; for you gave your word freely to the Lord your God.
Judges 11:35
And when he saw her he was overcome with grief, and said, Ah! my daughter! I am crushed with sorrow, and it is you who are the chief cause of my trouble; for I have made an oath to the Lord and I may not take it back.
Judges 21:1
Now the men of Israel had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, Not one of us will give his daughter as a wife to Benjamin.
1 Samuel 1:28
So I have given him to the Lord; for all his life he is the Lord's. Then he gave the Lord worship there.
1 Samuel 2:18
But Samuel did the work of the Lord's house, while he was a child, dressed in a linen ephod.
Psalms 66:13
I will come into your house with burned offerings, I will make payment of my debt to you,
Psalms 66:14
Keeping the word which came from my lips, and which my mouth said, when I was in trouble.
Ecclesiastes 5:2
Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.
Ecclesiastes 5:4
When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.
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Judges 16:28
And Samson, crying out to the Lord, said, O Lord God, do have me now in mind, and do make me strong only this once, O God, so that I may take one last payment from the Philistines for my two eyes.
Jeremiah 15:15
O Lord, you have knowledge: keep me in mind and come to my help, and give their right reward to those who are attacking me; take me not away, for you are slow to be angry: see how I have undergone shame because of you from all those who make little of your word;
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1 Samuel 12:22
For the Lord will not give his people up, because of the honour of his name; for it was the Lord's pleasure to make of you a people for himself.
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1 Samuel 13:11
And Samuel said, What have you done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were going away from me, and you had not come at the time which had been fixed, and the Philistines had come together at Michmash;
1 Samuel 13:13
And Samuel said to Saul, You have done a foolish thing: you have not kept the rules which the Lord your God gave you; it was the purpose of the Lord to make your authority over Israel safe for ever.
1 Samuel 15:24
And Saul said to Samuel, Great is my sin: for I have gone against the orders of the Lord and against your words: because, fearing the people, I did what they said.
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1 Samuel 14:31
That day they overcame the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were feeble from need of food.
1 Samuel 14:33
Then it was said to Saul, See, the people are sinning against the Lord, taking the blood with the flesh. And he said to those who gave him the news, Now let a great stone be rolled to me here.
1 Samuel 14:34
And Saul said, Go about among the people and say to them, Let every man come here to me with his ox and his sheep, and put them to death here, and take his meal: do no sin against the Lord by taking the blood with the flesh. So all the people took their oxen with them that night and put them to death there.
1 Samuel 14:36
And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, attacking them till the morning, till there is not a man of them living. And they said, Do whatever seems right to you. Then the priest said, Let us come near to God.
1 Samuel 14:37
And Saul, desiring directions from God, said, Am I to go down after the Philistines? will you give them up into the hands of Israel? But he gave him no answer that day.
1 Samuel 14:46
Then Saul, turning back, went after the Philistines no longer: and the Philistines went back to their place.
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2 Samuel 1:12
And till evening they gave themselves to sorrow and weeping, and took no food, weeping for Saul and for Jonathan, his son, and for the people of the Lord and for the men of Israel; because they had come to their end by the sword.
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2 Samuel 3:35
And the people came to make David take food, while it was still day, but David with an oath said, May God's punishment be on me if I take a taste of bread or any other thing till the sun has gone down!
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1 Kings 2:23
Then King Solomon took an oath by the Lord, saying, May God's punishment be on me if Adonijah does not give payment for these words with his life.
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Psalms 19:7
The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.
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Psalms 34:8
By experience you will see that the Lord is good; happy is the man who has faith in him.
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Psalms 132:2
How he made an oath to the Lord, and gave his word to the great God of Jacob, saying,
Psalms 132:3
Truly, I will not come into my house, or go to my bed,
Psalms 132:4
I will not give sleep to my eyes, or rest to my eyeballs,
Psalms 132:5
Till I have got a place for the Lord, a resting-place for the great God of Jacob.
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Proverbs 29:24
A man who takes part with a thief has hate for his soul; he is put under oath, but says nothing.
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1 Samuel 19:6
And Saul gave ear to the voice of Jonathan, and said with an oath, By the living Lord, he is not to be put to death.
1 Samuel 20:31
For while the son of Jesse is living on the earth, your position is unsafe and your kingdom is in danger. So make him come here to me, for it is certainly right for him to be put to death.
1 Samuel 22:16
And the king said, You will certainly be put to death, Ahimelech, you and all your father's family.
1 Samuel 28:10
And Saul made an oath to her by the Lord, saying, By the living Lord, no punishment will come to you for this.
2 Samuel 12:5
And David was full of wrath against that man; and he said to Nathan, By the living Lord, death is the right punishment for the man who has done this:
Ecclesiastes 9:2
Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.
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Jeremiah 44:25
This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: You women have said with your mouths, and with your hands you have done what you said, We will certainly give effect to the oaths we have made, to have perfumes burned to the queen of heaven and drink offerings drained out to her: then give effect to your oaths and do them.
Jeremiah 44:26
And now give ear to the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who are living in the land of Egypt: Truly, I have taken an oath by my great name, says the Lord, that my name is no longer to be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, By the life of the Lord God.
Jeremiah 44:27
See, I am watching over them for evil and not for good: all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be wasted by the sword and by need of food till there is an end of them.
Mark 6:22
And when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and did a dance, Herod and those who were at table with him were pleased with her; and the king said to the girl, Make a request for anything and I will give it you.
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Judges 5:23
A curse, a curse on Meroz! said the angel of the Lord. A bitter curse on her townspeople! Because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord among the strong ones.
Jeremiah 46:10
But that day is the day of the Lord, the Lord of armies, a day of punishment when he will take payment from his haters: and the sword will have all its desire, drinking their blood in full measure: for there is an offering to the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Jeremiah 48:10
Let him be cursed who does the Lord's work half-heartedly; let him be cursed who keeps back his sword from blood.
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Matthew 3:4
Now John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.
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Mark 14:71
But, with curses and oaths, he said, I have no knowledge of the man about whom you are talking.
Acts 23:13
And more than forty of them took this oath.
Acts 23:14
And they came to the chief priests and the rulers and said, We have taken a great oath to take no food till we have put Paul to death
Acts 23:21
But do not give way to them, for more than forty of them are waiting for him, having taken an oath not to take food or drink till they have put him to death: and now they are ready, waiting for your order.
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Romans 10:2
For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.
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Numbers 21:2
Then Israel made an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give up this people into my hands, then I will send complete destruction on all their towns.
Deuteronomy 27:15
Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 27:17
Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's landmark from its place. And let all the people say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 27:18
Cursed is he by whom the blind are turned out of the way. And let all the people say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 27:20
Cursed is he who has sex relations with his father's wife, for he has put shame on his father. And let all the people say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 27:21
Cursed is he who has sex relations with any sort of beast. And let all the people say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 27:22
Cursed is he who has sex relations with his sister, the daughter of his father or of his mother. And let all the people say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 27:23
Cursed is he who has sex relations with his mother-in-law. And let all the people say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 27:24
Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's life secretly. And let all the people say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 27:25
Cursed is he who for a reward puts to death one who has done no wrong. And let all the people say, So be it.
Galatians 3:10
For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.
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1 Thessalonians 5:27
I give orders in the name of the Lord that all the brothers are to be present at the reading of this letter.
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