Nave’s Topical Bible
Vows
43 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Mosaic laws concerning
Must be voluntary, see below
Must be performed, see below
- Estimation of the redemption price of things offered in vows, to be made by the priest, according to age and sex of the person making the offering
- The redemption price of the offering of real estate, to be valued by the priest
- Of a field
- Edible things offered in, to be eaten the same day they were offered
- Things offered in, to be brought to the tabernacle or temple
- Belonged to the priests
- Rash
- By Jephthah, in consecration of his daughter as a sacrafice, if his campaign against the Ammonites were successful
- The Israelites, to destroy the Benjamites
- Things forbidden to be offered in: Receipts of the whore and the price of a "dog" (male prostitute of a pagan shrine)
- A minor, of himself
- UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
Genesis 28:20-21; Genesis 31:13; Leviticus 5:4-13; Leviticus 22:18-25; Numbers 15:2-16; Numbers 30:1-16; Deuteronomy 23:18,21-23; Job 22:27; Psalms 22:25; Psalms 50:14-15; Psalms 56:12; Psalms 61:5,8; Psalms 65:1; Psalms 66:13-14; Psalms 76:11; Psalms 116:14-19; Proverbs 20:25; Ecclesiastes 5:4-6; Jonah 2:9; Nahum 1:15
- INSTANCES OF
- Of Jacob, see above
- Of the mother of Micah, in the dedication of silver for the making of an idol
- Of Hannah, to consecrate to the Lord the child for which she prayed
- Of Elkanah
- Of Absalom
- Of Job, not to entertain thoughts of fornication
- Of David
- Of Ananias and Sapphira, in the dedication of the proceeds Of the sale of their land
- Of the Jews, to kill Paul
- Of Jephthah, and of the Israelites
See RASH VOWS, aove
See NAZARITE
Bible verses about “Vows”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Leviticus 23:37These are the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
- Leviticus 23:38Beside the sabbaths of the Lord, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the Lord.
- Numbers 29:39These things ye shall do unto the Lord in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.
- Leviticus 27:1And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
- Leviticus 27:2Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the Lord by thy estimation.
- Leviticus 27:3And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
- Leviticus 27:4And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.
- Leviticus 27:5And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
- Leviticus 27:6And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.
- Leviticus 27:7And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
- Leviticus 27:8But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.
- Leviticus 27:9And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the Lord, all that any man giveth of such unto the Lord shall be holy.
- Leviticus 27:10He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
- Leviticus 27:11And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the Lord, then he shall present the beast before the priest:
- Leviticus 27:12And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.
- Leviticus 27:13But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.
- Leviticus 27:14And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the Lord, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
- Leviticus 27:15And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.
- Leviticus 27:16And if a man shall sanctify unto the Lord some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
- Leviticus 27:17If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.
- Leviticus 27:18But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.
- Leviticus 27:19And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
- Leviticus 27:20And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
- Leviticus 27:21But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the Lord, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest’s.
- Leviticus 27:22And if a man sanctify unto the Lord a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;
- Leviticus 27:23Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the Lord.
- Leviticus 27:24In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.
- Leviticus 27:25And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
- Leviticus 7:16But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:
- Leviticus 7:17But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.
- Leviticus 7:18And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.
- Deuteronomy 12:6And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
- Deuteronomy 12:11Then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the Lord:
- Deuteronomy 12:17Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:
- Deuteronomy 12:18But thou must eat them before the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
- Deuteronomy 12:26Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the Lord shall choose:
- Numbers 18:14Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.
- Judges 11:29Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.
- Judges 11:30And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
- Judges 11:31Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.