2 Samuel 15:8
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8 For your servant made a vow while I lived at Geshur in Aram: If the Lord will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will serve the Lord in Hebron.”[a](A)
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- 15.8 Gk mss: Heb lacks in Hebron
2 Samuel 13:37-38
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37 But Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. David mourned for his son day after day.(A) 38 Absalom, having fled to Geshur, stayed there three years.
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Genesis 28:20-21
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20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear,(A) 21 so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God,(B)
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1 Samuel 1:11
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11 She made this vow: “O Lord of hosts, if only you will look on the misery of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant but will give to your servant a male child, then I will set him before you as a nazirite until the day of his death. He shall drink neither wine nor intoxicants,[a] and no razor shall touch his head.”(A)
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- 1.11 Cn Compare Gk Q ms: MT child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life
Jeremiah 42:20
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20 that you have made a fatal mistake. For you yourselves sent me to the Lord your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to the Lord our God, and whatever the Lord our God says, tell us, and we will do it.’
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Jeremiah 9:3-5
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3 They bend their tongues like bows;
they have grown strong in the land for falsehood and not for truth,
for they proceed from evil to evil,
and they do not know me, says the Lord.(A)
4 Beware of your neighbors,
and put no trust in any of your kin,
for all your kin are supplanters,
and every neighbor goes around like a slanderer.(B)
5 They all deceive their neighbors,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongues to speak lies;
they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.[a](C)
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- 9.5 Cn Compare Gk: Heb they weary themselves with iniquity.
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Isaiah 28:15
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15 Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,
and with Sheol we have an agreement;
when the overwhelming scourge passes through
it will not come to us,
for we have made lies our refuge,
and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;(A)
Ecclesiastes 5:4
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4 When you make a vow to God, do not delay fulfilling it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Fulfill what you vow.(A)
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Psalm 56:12
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12 My vows to you I must perform, O God;
I will render thank offerings to you.(A)
2 Samuel 14:32
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32 Absalom answered Joab, “Look, I sent word to you. Come here that I may send you to the king with the question, ‘Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still.’ Now let me go into the king’s presence; if there is guilt in me, let him kill me!”(A)
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2 Samuel 14:23
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23 So Joab set off, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.(A)
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1 Samuel 16:2
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2 Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears of it, he will kill me.” And the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’(A)
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Joshua 24:15
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15 Now if you are unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served in the region beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living, but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”(A)
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