Then Jacob made a vow to the LORD: "If you will be with me and protect me on the journey I am making and give me food and clothing,

Jephthah promised the LORD: "If you will give me victory over the Ammonites,

Hannah made a solemn promise: " LORD Almighty, look at me, your servant! See my trouble and remember me! Don't forget me! If you give me a son, I promise that I will dedicate him to you for his whole life and that he will never have his hair cut."

After four years Absalom said to King David, "Sir, let me go to Hebron and keep a promise I made to the LORD.

While I was living in Geshur in Syria, I promised the LORD that if he would take me back to Jerusalem, I would worship him in Hebron."

O God, I will offer you what I have promised; I will give you my offering of thanksgiving,

because you have rescued me from death and kept me from defeat. And so I walk in the presence of God, in the light that shines on the living.

In the assembly of all your people, in the sanctuary of your Temple in Jerusalem, I will give you what I have promised. Praise the LORD!

Remember, LORD, what he promised, the vow he made to you, the Mighty God of Jacob:

None of you may sell or buy back what you have unconditionally dedicated to the LORD, whether it is a human being, an animal, or land. It belongs permanently to the LORD.

Not even human beings who have been unconditionally dedicated may be bought back; they must be put to death.

then kill all the people in that town and all their livestock too. Destroy that town completely.

The city and everything in it must be totally destroyed as an offering to the LORD. Only the prostitute Rahab and her household will be spared, because she hid our spies.

At this time Joshua issued a solemn warning: "Anyone who tries to rebuild the city of Jericho will be under the LORD's curse. Whoever lays the foundation will lose his oldest son; Whoever builds the gates will lose his youngest."

Whoever does not love the Lord---a curse on him! Marana tha---Our Lord, come!