Primary Verses:

1. Numbers 30:2

   • "If a man vow a vow unto YHVH, 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."

2. Deuteronomy 23:21-23

   • "When thou shalt vow a vow unto YHVH thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for YHVH thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.  But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.  That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto YHVH thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth."

Supporting Verses:

3. Joshua 9:20

   • "This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them."

4. Judges 11:30-36

   • "And Jephthah vowed a vow unto YHVH, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,  Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be YHVH's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.  So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and YHVH delivered them into his hands.  And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.  And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.  And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto YHVH, and I cannot go back.  And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto YHVH, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as YHVH hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon."

5. 2 Samuel 15:7-9

   • "And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto YHVH, in Hebron.  For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If YHVH shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve YHVH.  And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron."

6. Psalms 66:13

   • "I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,"

7. Psalms 76:11

   • "Vow, and pay unto YHVH your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared."

8. Psalms 116:18

   • "I will pay my vows unto YHVH now in the presence of all his people,"

9. Ecclesiastes 5:4-5

   • "When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.  Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay."

10. Acts 5:1-5

    • "But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,  And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.  But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?  Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.  And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things."

11. Acts 18:18

    • "And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow."

12. Acts 21:23-26

    • "Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;  Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.  As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.  Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them."