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Psalm 66:13
I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,
11You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.
12You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.
13I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,
14which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.
15I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals, with the offering of rams, I will offer bulls with goats. Selah.
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Burnt offerings at God's temple give the psalmist's promises a concrete form, raising the weight of keeping words spoken in distress.
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Psalm 100:4Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.Both passages describe entering God's place of worship, one with burnt offerings and the other with thanksgiving and praise.
Ecclesiastes 5:4When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.The psalmist resolves to pay his vows to God, while Ecclesiastes commands that such payment must not be delayed.
Psalm 56:12Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you.Both speakers acknowledge vows to God and commit to bringing offerings to him.
Psalm 116:17–19I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on the LORD’s name.Both speakers promise to offer a sacrifice to God, with Psalm 116 naming thanksgiving as its character.
Psalm 116:14I will pay my vows to the LORD, yes, in the presence of all his people.Both speakers resolve to pay their vows to God, with Psalm 116 naming the presence of his people.
Hebrews 13:15Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.Both passages speak of offering sacrifice to God; Psalm 66 names burnt offerings, while Hebrews names praise expressed through lips.
Jonah 2:9But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to the LORD.”Both speakers promise to sacrifice to God and pay what they have vowed.
Nahum 1:15Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more …Both passages speak of keeping vows to God in the setting of relief from oppression.
Genesis 28:20Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,Jacob's vow and the psalmist's vows are addressed to God; Psalm 66 focuses on carrying out what was promised.
Deuteronomy 12:11–12then it shall happen that to the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: …Both passages connect burnt offerings and vows with coming to the place where God is worshiped.
Leviticus 7:16“‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a free will offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice. On the next day what …Both passages connect a vow to an offering, treating a promise to God as something expressed through action.
Leviticus 22:18“Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘Whoever is of the house of Israel, or of the foreigners in Israel, who …Both passages name burnt offerings brought to God in connection with vows.
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The distress remembered here has passed, yet the words spoken there still matter. The psalmist returns to God's temple intent on keeping his vows.
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