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95 verse references from Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897) and OpenBible.info topics

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Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897)

The lawful purpose of, explained
Heb 6:16
Antiquity of
Gen 14:22 Gen 24:3 Gen 24:8
Used for
Confirming covenants.
Gen 26:28 Gen 31:44 Gen 31:53 1 Sam 20:16 1 Sam 20:17
Deciding controversies in courts of law.
Ex 22:11 Num 5:19 1 Kgs 8:31
Pledging allegiance to sovereigns.
2 Kgs 11:4 Eccl 8:2
Binding to performance of sacred duties.
Num 30:2 2 Chr 15:14 2 Chr 15:15 Neh 10:29 Ps 132:2
Binding to performance of any particular act.
Gen 24:3 Gen 24:4 Gen 50:25 Josh 2:12
Judicial from of administering
1 Kgs 22:16 Matt 26:63
Often accompanied by raising up the hand
Gen 14:22 Dan 12:7 Rev 10:5 Rev 10:6
Often accompanied by placing the hand under the thigh of the person sworn to
Gen 24:2 Gen 24:9 Gen 47:29
To be taken in fear and reverence
Eccl 9:2
The Jews
Forbidden to take, in name of idols.
Josh 23:7
Forbidden to take in the name of any created thing.
Matt 5:34-36 Jas 5:12
Forbidden to take false.
Lev 6:3 Zech 8:17
Forbidden to take rash, or unholy.
Lev 5:4
To use God’s name alone in.
Deut 6:13 Deut 10:20 Isa 65:16
To take, in truth, judgment, &c.
Jer 4:2
Generally respected the obligation of.
Josh 9:19 Josh 9:20 2 Sam 21:7 Ps 15:4 Matt 14:9
Fell into many errors respecting.
Matt 23:16-22
Often guilty of rashly taking.
Judg 21:7 Matt 14:7 Matt 26:72
Often guilty of falsely taking.
Lev 6:3 Jer 5:2 Jer 7:9
Condemned for false.
Zech 5:4 Mal 3:5
Condemned for profane.
Jer 23:10 Hos 4:2
Instances of rash
Joshua, &c.
Josh 9:15 Josh 9:16
Jephthah.
Judg 11:30-36
Saul.
1 Sam 14:27 1 Sam 14:44
Herod.
Matt 14:7-9
The Jews who sought to kill Paul.
Acts 23:21
Custom of swearing by the life of the king
Gen 42:15 Gen 42:16
Expressions used as
By the fear of Isaac.
Gen 31:53
As the Lord liveth.
Judg 8:19 Ruth 3:13
The Lord do so to me, and more also.
Ruth 1:17
God do so to thee, and more also.
1 Sam 3:17
By the Lord.
2 Sam 19:7 1 Kgs 2:42
God do so to thee and more also.
1 Sam 3:17
Before God I lie not.
Gal 1:20
I call God for a record.
2 Cor 1:23
God is witness.
1 Thess 2:5
I charge you by the Lord.
1 Thess 5:27
As thy soul liveth.
1 Sam 1:26 1 Sam 25:26
God used, to show the immutability of his counsel
Gen 22:16 Num 6:17 Num 14:28

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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), both public domain; digitised by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and arranged by the Bible Topics Dataset (CC BY 4.0). Topics marked OpenBible come from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0), ranked by its readers’ votes. The references follow the King James numbering of verses.