^2 (A)So Israel made a vow to the Lord, and said, “If You will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then ^(B)I will utterly destroy their cities.”

³⁰ And Jephthah ^(A)made a vow to the Lord, and said, “If You will indeed deliver the people of Ammon into my hands,

^20 (A)Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If ^(B)God will be with me, and keep me in this way that I am going, and give me ^(C)bread to eat and clothing to put on,

⁷ Now it came to pass ^(A)after ^[a]forty years that Absalom said to the king, “Please, let me go to ^(B)Hebron and pay the vow which I made to the Lord. ^8 (C)For your servant ^(D)took a vow ^(E)while I dwelt at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If the Lord indeed brings me back to Jerusalem, then I will serve the Lord.’ ”

¹¹ Then she ^(A)made a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if You will indeed ^(B)look on the affliction of Your maidservant and ^(C)remember me, and not forget Your maidservant, but will give Your maidservant a male child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and ^(D)no razor shall come upon his head.”

²⁶ Then Joshua ^[a]charged them at that time, saying, ^(A)“Cursed be the man before the Lord who rises up and builds this city Jericho; he shall lay its foundation with his firstborn, and with his youngest he shall set up its gates.”