Vows:
voluntary promises which, when once made, were to be kept if the thing vowed was right. They were made under a great variety of circumstances (Gen 28:18-22; Lev 7:16; Num 30:2-13; Deu 23:18; Jdg 11:30,39; 1Sa 1:11; Jon 1:16; Act 18:18; 21:23).
Vows:
Vows: Solemn Promises Made to God
Vows: Were Made in Reference To
Devoting the person to God
Dedicating children to God
Devoting property to God
Offering sacrifices
Afflicting the soul
Vows: To Be Performed Faithfully
Vows: Danger of Inconsiderately Making
Vows: Of Children Void without the Consent of Parents
Vows: Of Married Women Void without Consent of Husbands
Vows: Of widows and women divorced from their husbands binding
Vows: Might be redeemed by paying a suitable compensation
Vows: Recorded in Scripture
Of Jacob
Of Israelites
Of Jephthah
Of Hannah
Of Elkanah
Of David
Of mariners who cast out Jonah
Of Jonah
Of Lemuel's mother
Of Paul
Of certain Jews with Paul
Vows: The hire of a prostitute or price of a dog could not be the
Vows:
A vow is a solemn promise made to God to perform or to abstain from performing a certain thing. The earliest mention of a vow is that of Jacob (Genesis 28:18-22; 31:13). Vows in general are also mentioned in the book of Job (Job 22:27). The law therefore did not introduce, but regulated the practice of, vows. Three sorts are mentioned:
1, Vows of devotion;
2, Vows of abstinence;
3, Vows of destruction.
(1.) As to vows of devotion, the following rules are laid down: A man might devote to sacred uses possessions or persons, but not the first‐born of either man or beast, which was devoted already (Leviticus 27:28).
(a). If he vowed land, he might either redeem it or not Leviticus 25, 27.
(b). Animals fit for sacrifice if devoted, were not to be redeemed or changed (Leviticus 27:9-10, 33) persons devoted stood thus: devote either himself, his child (not the first‐born) or his slave. If no redemption took place, the devoted person became a slave of the sanctuary: see the case of Absalom (2 Samuel 15:8). Otherwise he might be redeemed at a valuation according to age and sex, on the scale given in Leviticus 27:1-7. Among general regulations affecting vows the following may be mentioned:
(1). Vows were entirely voluntary but once made were regarded as compulsory (Numbers 30:2; 23:21; Ecclesiastes 5:4).
(2). If persons in a dependent condition made vows as
(a). an unmarried daughter living in her father's house, or
(b). a wife, even if she afterward became a widow, the vow, if
(a). in the first case her father, or
(b). in the second her husband, heard and disallowed it, was void; but, if they heard without disallowance, it was to remain good (Numbers 30:3-15).
(3). Votive offerings arising from the produce of any impure traffic were wholly forbidden (Deuteronomy 23:18).
(2.) For vows of abstinence, SEE [CORBAN].
(3.) For vows of extermination SEE [ANATHEMA]. (Ezra 10:8; Micah 4:13). It seems that the practice of shaving the head at the expiration of a votive period was not limited to the Nazaritic vow (Acts 18:18; 21:24).
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