Vows [made] to You [are binding] upon me, O God; I will render praises to You,

I will go into Your house with burnt offerings; I will pay You my vows,

Which my lips have uttered And my mouth has spoken when I was in trouble.

and whoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

Then they took an oath before the LORD with a loud voice, with shouting and trumpets and rams' horns.

these joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes:

When you make a vow to God, do not delay to pay it; For [He has] no pleasure in fools. Pay what you have vowed --

Better not to vow than to vow and not pay.

" Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform your oaths to the Lord.'

And not [only] as we had hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and [then] to us by the will of God.

Depart from me, you evildoers, For I will keep the commandments of my God!

Then the king stood by a pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes, with all [his] heart and all [his] soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people took a stand for the covenant.