Numbers 30:2

And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it, for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

Then the children of Ammon were gathered together and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together and encamped in Mizpah.

Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.

Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah;

joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you among many people.

I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

Praise waits for you, God, in Zion. Vows shall be performed to you.

Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings shall bring presents to you.

Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his deeds with singing.

Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders.

I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on Yahweh’s name.

When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.

It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

“So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers will pass through her any more.

When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell.”

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.

You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.

if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

My praise of you comes in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him.

Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”

For you, God, have heard my vows. You have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.

I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his people.

Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.

After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”

“ ‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil or to do good—whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him—when he knows of it, then he will be guilty of one of these.

“If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips with which she has bound her soul,

then it shall be, that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be Yahweh’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.”

All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before Yahweh in Gilgal. There they offered sacrifices of peace offerings before Yahweh; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”

So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel.

He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.

I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,

a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?

if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments;

Praise Yah! I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.

I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his people,

Yahweh is my portion. I promised to obey your words.

Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, then later to consider his vows.

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed. They couldn’t blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. In the time of their visitation they will be cast down, says Yahweh.

But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”

Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.

He swore to her, “Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.”

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.

I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.

“If she vowed in her husband’s house or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,

Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.”

You shall observe and do that which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to Yahweh your God as a free will offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do.

The men said to her, “We will be guiltless of this your oath which you’ve made us to swear.

Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them. Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah.

At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed. She was a virgin. It became a custom in Israel

Therefore I have also given him to Yahweh. As long as he lives he is given to Yahweh.” He worshiped Yahweh there.

But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.

he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.

Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you.

which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.

Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.

I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.

But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.

“ ‘As I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he will die.

The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths, and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given,

“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’

‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’

They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”

But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”