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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 30

Clinging to a Counterfeit Cross
Introduction

1  Vows are not to be broken.
3  The exceptions of a maid's vows;
6  of a wife's;
9  of a widow's; or her that is divorced.
Verse 1

And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded.
1:4-16, 7:2, 34:17-28, Exodus 18:25, Deuteronomy 1:13-17
Verse 2

If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
If a man
The preceding chapters had treated of sacrifices required by law; and in the laws here delivered in respect to vows must have been very useful, as they both prevented and annulled rash vows, and provided a proper sanction for the support and performance of those which were rationally made, and which were made to the Lord.
vow a vow
21:2, Genesis 28:20-22, Leviticus 27:2-34, Deuteronomy 23:21,22, Judges 11:11,30,31,35,36, Judges 11:39, Psalms 15:3, 56:12, 76:11, 119:106, Proverbs 20:25
swear
Exodus 20:7, Leviticus 5:4, Matthew 5:33,34, 14:7-9, Acts 23:12, 2 Corinthians 1:23, 9:9-11
to bind
3,4,10, Matthew 23:16,18; *Gr:; Acts 23:12,14,21
break
Heb. profane.
Psalms 55:20; *marg:
he shall do
Job 22:27, Psalms 22:25, 50:14, 66:13,14, 116:14,18, Ecclesiastes 5:4,5, Nahum 1:15
Verse 4

Numbers 30:2

Verse 5

But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
Hosea 6:6, Matthew 15:4-6, Mark 7:10-13, Ephesians 6:1
Verse 6

And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;
she vowed
Heb. her vows were upon her.
Psalms 56:12
Verse 8

But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.
Genesis 3:16, 1 Corinthians 7:4, 14:34, Ephesians 5:22-24
Verse 9

But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.
Leviticus 21:7, Luke 2:37, Romans 7:2
Verse 12

But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.
her husband hath made
1 Corinthians 11:3
and the Lord
5,8, 15:25,28
Verse 13

Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
and every
1 Corinthians 11:3,9, 1 Peter 3:1-6
to afflict
29:7, Leviticus 16:29, 23:27,32, Ezra 8:21, Psalms 35:13, Isaiah 58:5, 1 Corinthians 7:5
Verse 14

Numbers 30:7

Verse 15

But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
he shall bear
5,8,12, Leviticus 5:1, Galatians 3:28
Verse 16

These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.
5:29,30, Leviticus 11:46,47, 13:59, 14:54-57, 15:32,33

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