Ecclesiastes 5:4 Cross References - ISV

⁴ Keep Your Promises to GodWhen you make a promise to God, don’t fail to keep it, since he isn’t pleased with fools. Keep what you promise—

²⁰ Then he made this solemn vow: “If God remains with me, watches over me throughout this journey that I’m taking, gives me food to eat and clothes to wear,

¹ Jacob Moves to BethelLater, God told Jacob, “Get up, move to Bethel, and live there. Build an altar to the God who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”

³ Then let’s get up and go to Bethel, where I’ll build an altar to the God who answered me when I was in distress and who was with me on the road, wherever I went.”

² ‘When a man makes a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath—an obligation that is binding to himself—he is not to break his word. Instead, he is to fulfill whatever promise came out of his mouth.’”

²¹ “When you make a vow to the LORD your God, don’t delay paying it, because the LORD your God will certainly demand payment from you, and then you will be guilty of sin. ²² But if you refrain from making a vow, then you won’t be guilty. ²³ Be sure you do whatever you promise, because you have given your word voluntarily to the LORD your God.

¹⁴ Offer to God a thanksgiving praise; pay your vows to the Most High.

¹³ I will come to your house with burnt offerings. I will fulfill my vows to you ¹⁴ that my lips uttered and that my mouth spoke when I was in trouble.

¹¹ Let everyone who surrounds the LORD your God make a vow and fulfill it to the Awesome One.

¹⁴ I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people.

¹⁶ LORD, I am indeed your servant. I am your servant. I am the son of your handmaid. You have released my bonds. ¹⁷ I will bring you a thanksgiving offering and call on the name of the LORD! ¹⁸ I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people,

¹⁰⁶ I have given my word and affirmed it, to keep your righteous judgments.

¹⁰ He takes no delight in the strength of a horse, and gains no pleasure in the runner’s swiftness. ¹¹ But the LORD is pleased with those who fear him, with those who depend on his gracious love.

²¹ So the LORD will make himself known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will acknowledge the LORD.
At that time, they will worship with sacrifices and offerings, and they will make vows to the LORD and carry them out.

⁹ But as for me, with a voice of thanksgiving I will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Deliverance is the LORD’s!”

¹⁰ Useless Offerings and Useless Altar Fires“Oh, that one of you would shut the Temple doors and not light useless fires on the altar! I’m not pleased with you,” says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, “and I’ll accept no offerings from you.

³³ Teaching about Oaths“Again, you have heard that it was told those who lived long ago, ‘You must not swear an oath falsely,’ but, ‘You must fulfill your oaths to the Lord.’

⁶ In burnt offerings and sin offerings you never took delight.