Oath: Attributed to God

…saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,

Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness—I will not lie to David—

So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”

…the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.

The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.

The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.

By Myself I have sworn; truth has gone out from My mouth, a word that will not be revoked: Every knee will bow before Me, every tongue will swear allegiance.

This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.

But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”

For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”

The LORD of Hosts has sworn by Himself: “Surely I will fill you up with men as with locusts, and they will shout in triumph over you.”

…the oath He swore to our father Abraham, to grant us

So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”

And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?

Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.

When God made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,

…saying, “I will surely bless you and multiply your descendants.”

So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.

…but Jesus became a priest with an oath by the One who said to Him: “The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind: ‘You are a priest forever.’”

For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak; but the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever.

And he swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it: “There will be no more delay!