Discovery Box| (0.50) | (Jer 12:16) | 2 tn Heb “taught my people to swear by Baal.” |
| (0.50) | (Isa 45:23) | 3 tn Heb “swear” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “confess allegiance.” |
| (0.50) | (Isa 45:23) | 1 tn Heb “I swear by myself”; KJV, NASB “have sworn.” |
| (0.50) | (Psa 24:4) | 3 tn Heb “and does not swear an oath deceitfully.” |
| (0.50) | (Jos 2:12) | 1 tn Heb “Now, swear to me by the Lord.” |
| (0.50) | (Lev 19:12) | 1 tn Heb “And you shall not swear to the falsehood.” |
| (0.50) | (Gen 21:23) | 1 tn Heb “And now swear to me by God here.” |
| (0.40) | (Jer 49:13) | 1 tn Heb “I swear by myself.” See 22:5 and the study note there. |
| (0.40) | (Jer 22:5) | 1 sn Heb “I swear by myself.” Oaths were guaranteed by invoking the name of a god or swearing by “his life.” See Jer 12:16 and 44:26. Since the Lord is incomparably great, he could swear by none higher (see Heb 6:13-16) than to swear by himself or his own great name. |
| (0.40) | (1Ki 18:10) | 1 tn Heb “he makes the kingdom or the nation swear an oath.” |
| (0.40) | (Jdg 8:19) | 1 tn The words “I swear” are supplied in the translation for clarification. |
| (0.40) | (Lev 6:5) | 1 tn Heb “or from all which he swears on it to falsehood.” |
| (0.40) | (Lev 6:3) | 1 tn Heb “and swears on falsehood”; cf. CEV “deny something while under oath.” |
| (0.35) | (Mal 3:5) | 2 tn Heb “those who swear [oaths] falsely.” Cf. NIV “perjurers”; TEV “those who give false testimony”; NLT “liars.” |
| (0.30) | (Jer 12:16) | 3 tn The words “I swear” are not in the text but are implicit to the oath formula. They are supplied in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 5:2) | 1 tn Heb “Though they say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives.’” The idea of “swear on oath” comes from the second line. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 47:31) | 2 tn Heb “swear on oath to me.” The words “that you will do so” have been supplied in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 21:24) | 1 tn Heb “I swear.” No object is specified in the Hebrew text, but the content of the oath requested by Abimelech is the implied object. |
| (0.28) | (Zep 1:5) | 3 tc The MT reads, “those who worship, those who swear allegiance to the Lord.” The original form of the LXX omits the phrase “those who worship”; it may have been accidentally repeated from the preceding line. J. J. M. Roberts prefers to delete as secondary the phrase “those who swear allegiance” (J. J. M. Roberts, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah [OTL], 168). |
| (0.25) | (Zec 5:3) | 2 sn Stealing and swearing falsely (mentioned later in this verse) are sins against mankind and God respectively and are thus violations of the two major parts of the Ten Commandments. These two stipulations (commandments 8 and 3) represent the whole law. |
