# שָׁבַע (shava)

Israeli respelling: sha-va. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7650. 175 Old Testament occurrences.

to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)

King James renderings: adjure, charge (by an oath, with an oath), feed to the full (by mistake for H7646 (שָׂבַע)), take an oath, [idiom] straitly, (cause to, make to) swear.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/shava-h7650

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 21:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/21/23) — 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 t…
- [Genesis 21:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/21/24) — And Abraham said, I will swear.
- [Genesis 21:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/21/31) — Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.
- [Genesis 22:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/22/16) — 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:
- [Genesis 24:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/24/3) — 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 dau…
- [Genesis 24:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/24/7) — The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto…
- [Genesis 24:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/24/9) — And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
- [Genesis 24:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/24/37) — And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:
- [Genesis 25:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/25/33) — And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
- [Genesis 26:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/26/3) — Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and…
- [Genesis 26:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/26/31) — 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.
- [Genesis 31:53](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/53) — 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.
- [Genesis 47:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/47/31) — And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed’s head.
- [Genesis 50:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/50/5) — My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now the…
- [Genesis 50:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/50/6) — And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
- [Genesis 50:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/50/24) — And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abr…
- [Genesis 50:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/50/25) — 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.
- [Exodus 13:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/13/5) — And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and th…
- [Exodus 13:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/13/11) — And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it…
- [Exodus 13:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/13/19) — And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye sh…
- [Exodus 32:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/32/13) — Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed…
- [Exodus 33:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/33/1) — And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the la…
- [Leviticus 5:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/5/4) — Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it b…
- [Leviticus 6:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/6/3) — 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:
- [Leviticus 6:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/6/5) — 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 gi…
- [Leviticus 19:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/19/12) — And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
- [Numbers 5:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/5/19) — 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 uncle…
- [Numbers 5:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/5/21) — 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…
- [Numbers 11:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/11/12) — Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beare…
- [Numbers 14:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/16) — Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
- [Numbers 14:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/23) — Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
- [Numbers 30:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/30/2) — 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…
- [Numbers 32:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/10) — And the LORD’s anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying,
- [Numbers 32:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/11) — Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isa…
- [Deuteronomy 1:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/1/8) — Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to gi…
- [Deuteronomy 1:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/1/34) — And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
- [Deuteronomy 1:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/1/35) — Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,
- [Deuteronomy 2:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/2/14) — And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the genera…
- [Deuteronomy 4:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/21) — Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that go…
- [Deuteronomy 4:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/31) — (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he s…
- [Deuteronomy 6:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/6/10) — And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to…
- [Deuteronomy 6:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/6/13) — Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
- [Deuteronomy 6:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/6/18) — And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and poss…
- [Deuteronomy 6:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/6/23) — And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.
- [Deuteronomy 7:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/7/8) — But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with…
- [Deuteronomy 7:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/7/12) — Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the co…
- [Deuteronomy 7:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/7/13) — And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, an…
- [Deuteronomy 8:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/1) — All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land w…
- [Deuteronomy 8:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/18) — But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sw…
- [Deuteronomy 9:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/9/5) — Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these natio…
- [Deuteronomy 10:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/10/11) — And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fa…
- [Deuteronomy 10:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/10/20) — Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
- [Deuteronomy 11:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/11/9) — And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that flow…
- [Deuteronomy 11:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/11/21) — That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the da…
- [Deuteronomy 13:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/13/17) — And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mer…
- [Deuteronomy 19:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/19/8) — And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy…
- [Deuteronomy 26:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/26/3) — And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come u…
- [Deuteronomy 26:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/26/15) — Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto o…
- [Deuteronomy 28:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/9) — The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy…
- [Deuteronomy 28:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/11) — And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground,…
- [Deuteronomy 29:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/29/13) — That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath…
- [Deuteronomy 30:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/30/20) — That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and…
- [Deuteronomy 31:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/31/7) — And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this peo…
- [Deuteronomy 31:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/31/20) — For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have ea…
- [Deuteronomy 31:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/31/21) — And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it s…
- [Deuteronomy 31:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/31/23) — And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the…
- [Deuteronomy 34:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/34/4) — And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed:…
- [Joshua 1:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/1/6) — Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to gi…
- [Joshua 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/2/12) — 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 ho…
- [Joshua 2:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/2/17) — And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.
- [Joshua 2:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/2/20) — And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
- [Joshua 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/5/6) — For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were co…
- [Joshua 6:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/6/22) — 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 th…
- [Joshua 6:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/6/26) — And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall la…
- [Joshua 9:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/15) — 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.
- [Joshua 9:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/18) — 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 t…
- [Joshua 9:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/19) — 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.
- [Joshua 9:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/20) — 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.
- [Joshua 14:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/14/9) — 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,…
- [Joshua 21:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/21/43) — And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
- [Joshua 21:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/21/44) — And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies…
- [Joshua 23:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/23/7) — That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by th…
- [Judges 2:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/2/1) — And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land whic…
- [Judges 2:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/2/15) — Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and…
- [Judges 15:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/15/12) — And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them…
- [Judges 21:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/21/1) — Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
- [Judges 21:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/21/7) — How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
- [Judges 21:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/21/18) — Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benj…
- [1 Samuel 3:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/3/14) — And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.
- [1 Samuel 14:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/14/27) — But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, an…
- [1 Samuel 14:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/14/28) — Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any f…
- [1 Samuel 19:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/19/6) — And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.
- [1 Samuel 20:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/20/3) — 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…
- [1 Samuel 20:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/20/17) — And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
- [1 Samuel 20:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/20/42) — And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between me and…
- [1 Samuel 24:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/24/21) — 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 fath…
- [1 Samuel 24:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/24/22) — And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the hold.
- [1 Samuel 28:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/28/10) — And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.
- [1 Samuel 30:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/30/15) — And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor del…
- [2 Samuel 3:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/3/9) — So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath sworn to David, even so I do to him;
- [2 Samuel 3:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/3/35) — 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 tas…
- [2 Samuel 19:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/19/7) — 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…
- [2 Samuel 19:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/19/23) — Therefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king sware unto him.
- [2 Samuel 21:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/21/2) — And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the A…
- [2 Samuel 21:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/21/17) — But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou…
- [1 Kings 1:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/1/13) — Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon…
- [1 Kings 1:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/1/17) — And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after m…
- [1 Kings 1:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/1/29) — And the king sware, and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress,
- [1 Kings 1:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/1/30) — Even as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my thron…
- [1 Kings 1:51](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/1/51) — And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let…
- [1 Kings 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/2/8) — And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I we…
- [1 Kings 2:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/2/23) — 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.
- [1 Kings 2:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/2/42) — 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…
- [1 Kings 18:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/10) — As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there;…
- [1 Kings 22:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/22/16) — And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the LORD?
- [2 Kings 11:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/11/4) — 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…
- [2 Kings 25:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/25/24) — And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve…
- [2 Chronicles 15:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/15/14) — And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
- [2 Chronicles 15:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/15/15) — And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of th…
- [2 Chronicles 18:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/18/15) — And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the LORD?
- [2 Chronicles 36:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/36/13) — And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from tur…
- [Ezra 10:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/10/5) — 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 swa…
- [Nehemiah 5:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/5/12) — 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 a…
- [Nehemiah 13:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/13/25) — And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye s…
- [Psalms 15:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/15/4) — 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.
- [Psalms 24:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/24/4) — He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
- [Psalms 63:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/63/11) — But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
- [Psalms 89:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/3) — I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
- [Psalms 89:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/35) — Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
- [Psalms 89:49](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/49) — Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
- [Psalms 95:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/95/11) — Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
- [Psalms 102:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/102/8) — Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
- [Psalms 110:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/110/4) — The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
- [Psalms 119:106](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/106) — I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
- [Psalms 132:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/132/2) — How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;
- [Psalms 132:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/132/11) — 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.
- [Ecclesiastes 9:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/9/2) — All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to…
- [Song of Solomon 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/2/7) — I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he plea…
- [Song of Solomon 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/3/5) — I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he plea…
- [Song of Solomon 5:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/5/8) — I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
- [Song of Solomon 5:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/5/9) — What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so…
- [Song of Solomon 8:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/8/4) — I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
- [Isaiah 14:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/14/24) — 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:
- [Isaiah 19:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/19/18) — In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The c…
- [Isaiah 45:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/23) — 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 t…
- [Isaiah 48:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/48/1) — 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 n…
- [Isaiah 54:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/54/9) — For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn th…
- [Isaiah 62:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/62/8) — The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; an…
- [Isaiah 65:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/65/16) — That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God…
- [Jeremiah 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/2) — And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in h…
- [Jeremiah 5:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/2) — And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.
- [Jeremiah 5:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/7) — 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…
- [Jeremiah 7:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/7/9) — Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
- [Jeremiah 11:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/11/5) — 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…
- [Jeremiah 12:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/12/16) — 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 peo…
- [Jeremiah 22:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/22/5) — But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
- [Jeremiah 32:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/32/22) — And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
- [Jeremiah 38:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/38/16) — 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, neithe…
- [Jeremiah 40:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/40/9) — 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 l…
- [Jeremiah 44:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/44/26) — Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, t…
- [Jeremiah 49:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/13) — 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 the…
- [Jeremiah 51:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/14) — 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 aga…
- [Ezekiel 16:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/8) — Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy na…
- [Ezekiel 21:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/21/23) — And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity…
- [Daniel 12:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/12/7) — 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,…
- [Hosea 4:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/4/15) — 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 L…
- [Amos 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/4/2) — The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity…
- [Amos 6:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/6/8) — The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will…
- [Amos 8:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/8/7) — The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
- [Amos 8:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/8/14) — They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and neve…
- [Micah 7:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/7/20) — Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
- [Zephaniah 1:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/1/5) — And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
- [Zechariah 5:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/5/3) — Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as…
- [Zechariah 5:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/5/4) — I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth fal…
- [Malachi 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/3/5) — And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false…