¹⁰⁶ I have sworn, and have confirmed it, That I will obey your righteous ordinances.

²⁹ They joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

³ The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all [his] heart, and all [his] soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book: and all the people stood to the covenant.

¹³ and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

¹⁴ They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

¹² Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you.

¹³ I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,

¹⁴ which my lips promised, And my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.

¹¹⁵ Depart from me, you evildoers, That I may keep the commandments of my God.

⁴ When you vow a vow to God, don't defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.

⁵ It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

³³ "Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, 'You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,'

⁵ This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.