Luke 1:73
An oath that He swore to Abraham our father,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
In Context
72To do kindness with our fathers, || And to be mindful of His holy covenant,
74To give to us, without fear, || Having been delivered out of the hand of our enemies,
Cross References
Genesis 24:7YHWH, God of the heavens, who has taken me from the house of my father, and from the land of my birth, and who has spoken to me, and who has sworn to me, saying, To your seed I give this land, He sends His messenger before you, and you have taken a wife for my son from there;
Deuteronomy 7:8but because of YHWH’s loving you, and because of His keeping the oath which He has sworn to your fathers; YHWH has brought you out by a strong hand, and ransoms you from a house of servants, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Psalms 105:9That He has made with Abraham, || And His oath to Isaac,
Hebrews 6:13For God, having made promise to Abraham, seeing He was not able to swear by [any] greater, swore by Himself,
Matthew Henry on Luke 1:68-80
The Song of Zacharias. 67 And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, 68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, 69 And hath raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; 70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began: 71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; 72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his… Read the whole commentary →