1 Samuel 29:6

29:6 So Achish summoned David and said to him, “As surely as the Lord lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you ¹  serving ²  with me in the army. ³  I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion ⁴  of the leaders, you are not reliable. ⁵ 

Joshua 2:12

2:12 So now, promise me this with an oath sworn in the Lord’s name. ⁶  Because I have shown allegiance to you, show allegiance to my family. ⁷  Give me a solemn pledge ⁸ 

Joshua 9:15

9:15 Joshua made a peace treaty with them and agreed to let them live. The leaders of the community ⁹  sealed it with an oath. ¹⁰ 

Joshua 9:19-20

9:19 but all the leaders told the whole community, “We swore an oath to them in the name of ¹¹  the Lord God of Israel. So now we can’t hurt ¹²  them! 9:20 We must let them live so we can escape the curse attached to the oath we swore to them.” ¹³ 

Ezekiel 17:13

17:13 He took one from the royal family, ¹⁴  made a treaty with him, and put him under oath. ¹⁵  He then took the leaders of the land

Ezekiel 17:16

17:16 “‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, surely in the city ¹⁶  of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke – in the middle of Babylon he will die!

Ezekiel 17:19

17:19 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, I will certainly repay him ¹⁷  for despising my oath and breaking my covenant!

¹ tn Heb “it is good in my eyes.” Cf. v. 7.

² tn Heb “your going forth and your coming in.” The expression is a merism.

³ tn Heb “camp.”

⁴ tn Heb “eyes.”

⁵ tn Heb “good.”

⁶ tn Heb “Now, swear to me by the Lord.”

⁷ tn Heb “with the house of my father.”

⁸ tn Heb “true sign,” that is, “an inviolable token or pledge.”

⁹ tn Or “assembly.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “Joshua made peace with them and made a treaty with them to let them live, and the leaders of the community swore an oath to them.”

¹¹ tn Heb “to them by….”

¹² tn Or “touch.”

¹³ tn Heb “This is what we will do to them, keeping them alive so there will not be upon us anger concerning the oath which we swore to them.”

¹⁴ tn Or “descendants”; Heb “seed” (cf. v. 5).

¹⁵ tn Heb “caused him to enter into an oath.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “place.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “place it on his head.”