Oath

Oath is significant here because God doesn't merely promise but swears — an irrevocable, self-binding declaration that this King's priesthood will never be revoked or replaced.

Oath is the form the poet's commitment takes in this stanza — a formal, deliberate, renewed vow to keep God's righteous rules even while navigating a dark road with real hazards and enemies.

God's oath here is explicitly described as one he will never take back — elevating it above a conditional promise to something irrevocable, which is precisely what makes it messianic in scope.

The oath is the second of the two immovable guarantees the author stacks together — God's promise plus God's oath creates a double-certainty meant to give exhausted, pressured readers an unshakable reason to hold on.

Oath is the distinguishing feature of Jesus's appointment — God personally swore it, unlike the old priesthood which was inherited without any such divine declaration, making the new covenant more secure.

The oath here is God swearing by his own right hand and arm — the highest possible self-pledge, putting his power and reputation behind the specific promise that Jerusalem's harvest will no longer be stolen by enemies.

Zedekiah swears a secret oath to protect Jeremiah before hearing God's message — an attempt to create a safe space for truth, though the secrecy itself signals he has no intention of acting on it publicly.

God swears an oath here staking his own name and existence on what is coming — the most binding form of divine assurance, using Mount Tabor and Mount Carmel as witnesses to his certainty.

The oath here is Job's deliberate rhetorical escalation — by invoking God as witness to his truthfulness, he places his entire claim on the line before the one Being who actually knows the truth.

This second oath is the longest and most personal in the chapter — Job swears his entire record with the vulnerable into the covenant, staking his physical body on the truth of his generosity.

Oath is referenced here as something Joshua explicitly forbids invoking in the names of foreign gods — even casual swearing by those names represents the kind of small drift that erodes covenant loyalty over time.

The oath sworn to the Gibeonites is what prevents Israel from attacking — the leaders explicitly cite it as the reason they cannot act, showing that a word given before God carries absolute weight.

Oath captures the binding public declaration Herod made before his guests — the social weight of that sworn word is what trapped him into ordering an execution he didn't even want to carry out.

Oath-making is the focus of the third woe, where Jesus exposes an elaborate system of loopholes the Pharisees had constructed to make certain promises technically non-binding — draining sacred commitments of all meaning.

The oath here is a public, sworn commitment before God and the entire assembly — Nehemiah's way of ensuring the nobles' promise to return stolen property cannot be quietly walked back in private later.

The Oath is referenced here as a covenant Zedekiah swore to Nebuchadnezzar before God — breaking it compounds his guilt, since it was not merely a political agreement but a promise made in God's name, adding betrayal of sacred vows to his list of failures.

The Oath binds the commanders to secrecy and loyalty before they see Joash — Jehoiada secures their commitment first, then reveals the stakes, ensuring no one can back out.

The oath is the mechanism these forty men use to lock themselves into the assassination plot — invoking sacred obligation to turn a plan to kill Paul into a religious duty they cannot walk back.

The oath here is the formal mechanism by which the assembly commits to the painful process Shecaniah proposed — a sworn, binding promise before God that transforms a crowd's emotion into legal obligation.

The oath is addressed here as something that becomes unnecessary when a person's character is already established as trustworthy — James argues that needing to swear reveals a deficit in everyday integrity.

The oath Herod swore — up to half his kingdom — is the mechanism of John's death, a solemn public vow that Herod's pride wouldn't let him break even when the request turned murderous.

The oath placed on the woman is a formal invocation of God as witness and judge — her double 'Amen' legally binds her to the consequences, making the ritual a covenant act before God rather than a civil proceeding.

The angel swears a formal, unbreakable oath — invoking God the Creator as guarantor — to declare that there will be no further delay before God's mystery is completed.