Ecclesiastes 5:2-6
not rash.Ge 18:27,30,32; 28:20,22; Nu 30:2-5; Jud 11:30; 1Sa 14:24-45Mr 6:23thing. or, word. for.Ps 115:3; Isa 55:9; Mt 6:9let thy .3,7; Pr 10:19; Mt 6:7; Jas 3:2 a fool's.10:12-14; Pr 10:19; 15:2 vowest.Ge 28:20; 35:1,3; Nu 30:2; De 23:21-23; Ps 50:14; 76:11; 119:106Isa 19:21; Mt 5:33for.Ps 147:10,11; Mal 1:10; Heb 10:6pay.Ps 66:13,14; 116:14,16-18; Jon 2:9 De 23:22; Pr 20:25; Ac 5:4 thy mouth.1,2; Jas 1:26; 3:2before.Or, "before the messenger," {hammalach,} the priest whose business it was to take cognizance of vows and offerings. Le 5:4,5; Ge 48:16; Ho 12:4,5; Mal 2:7; 3:1; Ac 7:30-35; 1Co 11:101Ti 5:21; Heb 1:14it was.Le 5:4-6; 27:9,10destroy.Hag 1:9-11; 2:14-17; 1Co 3:13-15; 2Jo 1:8Ezekiel 17:18-19
Seeing.Though Zedekiah's oath had been given to a heathen, a conqueror, and a tyrant, yet God considered the violation of it a most aggravated sin against Him, and determined to punish him for it. lo, he.1Ch 29:24; 2Ch 30:8; *marginsLa 5:6he shall.15 surely.21:23-27; De 5:11; Jer 5:2,9; 7:9-15Matthew 14:7
Es 5:3,6; 7:2Matthew 14:9
the king.1; Mr 6:14sorry.5; 27:17-26; Da 6:14-16; Mr 6:20,26; Lu 13:32; Joh 19:12-16Ac 24:23-27; 25:3-9the oath's.Nu 30:5-8; Jud 11:30,31,39; 21:1,7-23; 1Sa 14:24,28,39-45; 25:221Sa 25:32-34; 28:10; 2Ki 6:31-33; Ec 5:2Mark 6:23
he.1Sa 28:10; 2Ki 6:31; Mt 5:34-37; 14:7Whatsoever.Es 5:3,6; 7:2; Pr 6:2; Mt 4:9Acts 23:12
certain.21,30; 25:3; Ps 2:1-3; 64:2-6; Isa 8:9,10; Jer 11:19; Mt 26:4bound.1Ki 19:2; 2Ki 6:31; Mt 27:25; Mr 6:23-26under a curse. or, with an oath of execration.Le 27:29; Jos 6:26; 7:1,15; Ne 10:29; Mt 26:74; *Gr:1Co 16:22; Ga 3:13that.Such execrable vows as these were not unusual among the Jews, who, from their perverted traditions, challenged to themselves a right of punishing without any legal process, those whom they considered transgressors of the law; and in some cases, as in the case of one who had forsaken the law of Moses, they thought they were justified in killing them. They therefore made no scruple of acquainting the chief priests and elders with their conspiracy against the life of Paul, and applying for their connivance and support; who, being chiefly of the sect of the Sadducees, and the apostle's bitterest enemies, were so far from blaming them for it, that they gladly aided and abetted them in this mode of dispatching him, and on its failure they soon afterwards determined upon making a similar attempt. (ch. 25:2, 3.) If these were, in their bad way, conscientious men, they were under no necessity of perishing for hunger, when the providence of God had hindered them from accomplishing their vow; for their vows of abstinence from eating and drinking were as easy to loose as to bind, any of their wise men or Rabbis having power to absolve them, as Dr. Lightfoot has shown from the Talmud. 1Sa 14:24,27,28,40-44; Ps 31:13
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