Contracts by Oaths
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Genesis 26:3, 31
Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham. / And they got up early the next morning and swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.
Joshua 9:15, 20
And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them. / This is how we will treat them: We will let them live, so that no wrath will fall on us because of the oath we swore to them.”
1 Chronicles 16:16
the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.
Hebrews 6:16, 17
Men swear by someone greater than themselves, and their oath serves as a confirmation to end all argument. / So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.