Lexicon :: Strong's G2172 - euchomai

Then Jacob made a vow: “If God will be with me and watch over me during this journey I’m making, if he provides me with food to eat and clothing to wear,

“I am the God of Bethel, where you poured oil on the stone marker and made a solemn vow to me. Get up, leave this land, and return to your native land.’ ”

Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Appeal to the LORD to remove the frogs from me and my people. Then I will let the people go and they can sacrifice to the LORD.”

Pharaoh responded, “I will let you go and sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but don’t go very far. Make an appeal for me.”

“Make an appeal to the LORD. There has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you don’t need to stay any longer.”

Moses left Pharaoh’s presence and appealed to the LORD.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When someone makes a special vow to the LORD that involves the assessment of people,

“But if one is too poor to pay the assessment, he is to present the person before the priest and the priest will set a value for him. The priest will set a value for him according to what the one making the vow can afford.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When a man or woman makes a special vow, a Nazirite vow, to consecrate himself to the LORD,

“You must not cut his hair[fn] throughout the time of his vow of consecration. He may be holy until the time is completed during which he consecrates himself to the LORD; he is to let the hair of his head grow long.

“This is the law of the Nazirite: On the day his time of consecration is completed, he is to be brought to the entrance to the tent of meeting.

“The Nazirite is to shave his consecrated head at the entrance to the tent of meeting, take the hair from his head, and put it on the fire under the fellowship sacrifice.

Then the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.

Then Israel made a vow to the LORD, “If you will hand this people over to us, we will completely destroy their cities.”

The people then came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you. Intercede with the LORD so that he will take the snakes away from us.” And Moses interceded for the people.

“When a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to put himself under an obligation, he must not break his word; he must do whatever he has promised.

“Every vow a widow or divorced woman puts herself under is binding on her.

“The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. But I prayed for Aaron at that time also.

“I prayed to the LORD:

Lord GOD, do not annihilate your people, your inheritance, whom you redeemed through your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a strong hand.

“then the LORD your God will choose the place to have his name dwell. Bring there everything I command you: your burnt offerings, sacrifices, offerings of the tenth, personal contributions,[fn] and all your choice offerings you vow to the LORD.

“Within your city gates you may not eat the tenth of your grain, new wine, or fresh oil; the firstborn of your herd or flock; any of your vow offerings that you pledge; your freewill offerings; or your personal contributions.[fn]

“If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to keep it, because he will require it of you, and it will be counted against you as sin.

Jephthah made this vow to the LORD: “If you in fact hand over the Ammonites to me,

At the end of two months, she returned to her father, and he kept the vow he had made about her. And she had never been intimate with a man. Now it became a custom in Israel

Making a vow, she pleaded, “LORD of Armies, if you will take notice of your servant’s affliction, remember and not forget me, and give your servant a son, I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.”[fn]

He guards the steps[fn] of his faithful ones,

but the wicked perish in darkness,

for a person does not prevail by his own strength.

When four[fn] years had passed, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I made to the LORD.

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,

You will pray to him, and he will hear you,

and you will fulfill your vows.

He will pray to God, and God will delight in him.

That person will see his face with a shout of joy,

and God will restore his righteousness to him.

“Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. Then my servant Job will pray for you. I will surely accept his prayer and not deal with you as your folly deserves. For you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.”

After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes and doubled his previous possessions.

Make and keep your vows

to the LORD your God;

let all who are around him bring tribute

to the awe-inspiring one.[fn]

and how he swore an oath to the LORD,

making a vow to the Mighty One of Jacob:

It is a trap for anyone to dedicate something rashly

and later to reconsider his vows.

When you make a vow to God, don’t delay fulfilling it, because he does not delight in fools. Fulfill what you vow.

The LORD will make himself known to Egypt, and Egypt will know the LORD on that day. They will offer sacrifices and offerings; they will make vows to the LORD and fulfill them.

“As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not offer a cry or a prayer on their behalf, and do not beg me, for I will not listen to you.

“They will never return to the land they long to return to.”