Judges 8:19
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19 So he said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother! As the Lord lives, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.”
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1 Samuel 14:39
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39 As surely as the Lord lives who saves Israel, even if it is because of my son Jonathan, he must die!” Not one of the troops answered him.
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1 Samuel 14:45
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45 But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die? He accomplished such a great deliverance for Israel! No, as the Lord lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground,(A) for he worked with God’s help today.”(B) So the people redeemed Jonathan, and he did not die.
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2 Samuel 4:9
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9 But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As the Lord lives, the one who has redeemed my life from every distress,(A)
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1 Kings 1:29
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29 The king swore an oath and said, “As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life from every difficulty,(A)
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1 Kings 2:24
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24 And now, as the Lord lives—the one who established me, seated me on the throne of my father David, and made me a dynasty as he promised(A)—I swear Adonijah will be put to death today!”
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Jeremiah 4:1-2
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Blessing or Curse
4 If you return,[a] Israel—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
you will return to me,(A)
if you remove your abhorrent idols(B)
from my presence
and do not waver,
2 then you can swear, “As the Lord lives,”(C)
in truth,(D) justice, and righteousness,(E)
and then the nations will be blessed[b] by him(F)
and will boast in him.(G)
Jeremiah 5:2
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Jeremiah 16:14-15
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14 “However, look, the days are coming”(A)—the Lord’s declaration—“when it will no longer be said, ‘As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of Egypt,’(B) 15 but rather, ‘As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of the north(C) and from all the other lands where he had banished them.’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their ancestors.(D)
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Jeremiah 38:16
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16 King Zedekiah swore to Jeremiah in private,(A) “As the Lord lives, who has given us this life,(B) I will not kill you or hand you over to these men who intend to take your life.”
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