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2 Samuel 18 33
The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said,“ My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son!”
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Judges 21:1-7
Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying,“ None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.”The people came to Bethel and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.They said,“ Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be one tribe lacking in Israel today?”On the next day, the people rose early and built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.The children of Israel said,“ Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to Yahweh?” For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying,“ He shall surely be put to death.”The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said,“ There is one tribe cut off from Israel today.How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?”
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2 Samuel 13 30-2 Samuel 13 31
While they were on the way, the news came to David, saying,“ Absalom has slain all the king’s sons, and there is not one of them left!”Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.
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Numbers 30:2-5
When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.“ Also, when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh and binds herself by a pledge, being in her father’s house, in her youth,and her father hears her vow and her pledge with which she has bound her soul, and her father says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she has bound her soul shall stand.But if her father forbids her in the day that he hears, none of her vows or of her pledges with which she has bound her soul, shall stand. Yahweh will forgive her, because her father has forbidden her.
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Genesis 42:36-38
Jacob, their father, said to them,“ You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”Reuben spoke to his father, saying,“ Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again.”He said,“ My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”
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Ecclesiastes 5:2-6
Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.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.Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
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Genesis 37:29-30
Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.He returned to his brothers, and said,“ The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”
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Matthew 14:7-9
Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask.She, being prompted by her mother, said,“ Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer.”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,
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Job 1:20
Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.
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1 Samuel 14 44-1 Samuel 14 45
Saul said,“ God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan.”The people said to Saul,“ Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die.
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Leviticus 27:28-29
“‘ Notwithstanding, no devoted thing that a man devotes to Yahweh of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed. Everything that is permanently devoted is most holy to Yahweh.“‘ No one devoted to destruction, who shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed. He shall surely be put to death.
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Psalms 15:4
in whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;
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Acts 23:14
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.
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Genesis 37:34-35
Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said,“ For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.