Genesis 26:31

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They rose early in the morning and took an oath to one another. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they departed from him in peace.

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  • Gen 14:22 : 22 But Abram said to the king of Sodom, 'I have raised my hand to the LORD, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
  • Gen 19:2 : 2 He said, "Please, my lords, turn aside to your servant’s house. Spend the night and wash your feet; then you can rise early and be on your way." But they said, "No, we will spend the night in the square."
  • Gen 21:14 : 14 Early in the morning, Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulder, along with the boy, and sent her away. She departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
  • Gen 21:23 : 23 Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me, my children, or my descendants. Show to me and the land where you have lived the same kindness I have shown to you.
  • Gen 21:31-32 : 31 That is why the place was called Beersheba, because the two of them swore an oath there. 32 After making the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned to the land of the Philistines.
  • Gen 22:3 : 3 Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took with him two of his young men and his son Isaac. He split the wood for the burnt offering, set out, and went to the place God had told him to go.
  • Gen 25:33 : 33 But Jacob said, 'Swear to me first.' So Esau swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.
  • Gen 31:44 : 44 Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.'
  • 1 Sam 14:24 : 24 Now the Israelites were hard-pressed that day, because Saul had bound the people under an oath, saying, 'Cursed be anyone who eats food before evening comes, before I have avenged myself on my enemies!' So none of the troops tasted food.
  • 1 Sam 20:3 : 3 But David swore again and said, "Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thinks, 'Let Jonathan not know this, lest he be grieved.' But as the LORD lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death."
  • 1 Sam 20:16-17 : 16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, "May the LORD demand an accounting of David's enemies." 17 And Jonathan had David swear again by his love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself.
  • 1 Sam 30:15 : 15 David asked him, "Can you lead me to this raiding party?" He answered, "Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me nor hand me over to my master, and I will lead you to them."
  • Heb 6:16 : 16 People swear by someone greater than themselves, and an oath confirms what is said and puts an end to all argument.

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  • Gen 26:27-30
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    83%

    27Isaac asked them, "Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?"

    28They replied, "We have clearly seen that the LORD has been with you. So we said, 'There should now be an oath between us and you; let us make a covenant with you.'"

    29"You must not harm us, just as we have not harmed you but have always treated you well and sent you away in peace. Now you are blessed by the LORD."

    30Then Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.

  • Gen 24:54
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    54Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, he said, 'Send me on my way to my master.'

  • Gen 26:32
    74%

    32That same day, Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug, saying, "We have found water!"

  • Gen 31:53-54
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    72%

    53May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.' So Jacob took an oath in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac.

    54Then Jacob sacrificed a offering on the mountain and invited his relatives to a meal. They ate and spent the night on the mountain.

  • Gen 26:16-20
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    71%

    16Then Abimelech said to Isaac, "Leave us, for you have become much mightier than we are."

    17So Isaac departed from there, pitched his tent in the Valley of Gerar, and settled there.

    18Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham's death; he gave them the same names his father had given them.

    19Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of flowing water there.

    20But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, "The water is ours!" So he named the well Esek, because they disputed with him.

  • Gen 21:31-32
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    71%

    31That is why the place was called Beersheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.

    32After making the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned to the land of the Philistines.

  • Gen 26:25
    70%

    25So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.

  • Gen 26:6
    70%

    6So Isaac settled in Gerar.

  • Gen 24:59
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    59So they sent away their sister Rebekah, along with her nurse, Abraham's servant, and his men.

  • Gen 21:23-24
    2 verses
    70%

    23Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me, my children, or my descendants. Show to me and the land where you have lived the same kindness I have shown to you.

    24Abraham said, 'I swear it.'

  • Gen 45:24
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    24Then Joseph sent his brothers away, and as they left, he said to them, 'Do not quarrel on the way.'

  • Gen 24:61-63
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    61Then Rebekah and her young women got up, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed.

    62Now Isaac had come from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev.

    63He went out to meditate in the field toward evening. As he looked up, he saw camels approaching.

  • 1 Chr 16:16
    69%

    16The covenant he made with Abraham, and the oath he swore to Isaac.

  • Gen 24:66
    69%

    66Then the servant recounted to Isaac everything he had done.

  • Gen 22:3
    69%

    3Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took with him two of his young men and his son Isaac. He split the wood for the burnt offering, set out, and went to the place God had told him to go.

  • Gen 33:12
    69%

    12'Let us get started on our journey,' Esau said, 'and I will go along with you.'

  • Gen 22:19
    68%

    19Then Abraham returned to his young men, and together they set out and went to Beersheba, and Abraham settled in Beersheba.

  • Gen 21:27
    68%

    27So Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.

  • Gen 24:41
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    41'You will be released from my oath if you go to my family and they refuse to give her to you. Then you will be free from my oath.'

  • Gen 24:12
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    12Then he prayed, "Lord, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show kindness to my master Abraham."

  • Gen 26:12
    68%

    12Isaac sowed seed in that land, and in that same year he reaped a hundredfold, because the LORD blessed him.

  • Gen 27:45
    68%

    45When your brother's anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him, I will send for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?'

  • Judg 19:5
    68%

    5On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning to leave, but the woman’s father said to his son-in-law, “Refresh yourself with a piece of bread, and then you can go.”

  • Gen 27:30
    68%

    30As soon as Isaac finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from his hunting.

  • Gen 26:1-2
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    68%

    1Now there was a famine in the land, apart from the earlier famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Abimelech, the king of the Philistines, in Gerar.

    2The LORD appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt. Stay in the land that I will show you.

  • Gen 25:33
    68%

    33But Jacob said, 'Swear to me first.' So Esau swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.