Ezekiel 20:15
20:15 I also swore
1 to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to the land I had given them – a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.
Ezekiel 20:23
20:23 I also swore
2 to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.
3
Ezekiel 47:14
47:14 You must divide it equally just as I vowed to give it to your forefathers;
4 this land will be assigned as your inheritance.
5
Genesis 14:22
14:22 But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I raise my hand
6 to the
Lord, the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth, and vow
7
Deuteronomy 32:40
32:40 For I raise up my hand to heaven,
and say, ‘As surely as I live forever,
Revelation 10:5
10:5 Then
8 the angel I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven
1 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
2 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
3 sn Though the Pentateuch does not seem to know of this episode, Ps 106:26-27 may speak of God’s oath to exile the people before they had entered Canaan.
4 sn Gen 15:9-21.
5 tn Heb “will fall to you as an inheritance.”
6 tn Abram takes an oath, raising his hand as a solemn gesture. The translation understands the perfect tense as having an instantaneous nuance: “Here and now I raise my hand.”
7 tn The words “and vow” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarification.
8 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.