Ibrani 6:16

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Sebab manusia bersumpah demi orang yang lebih tinggi, dan sumpah itu menjadi suatu pengokohan baginya, yang mengakhiri segala bantahan.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sebab manusia bersumpah demi orang yang lebih tinggi, dan sumpah itu menjadi suatu pengokohan baginya, yang mengakhiri segala bantahan.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Karena manusia bersumpah demi yang terlebih besar daripada dirinya, dan sumpah itulah menyungguhkan perkaranya, sehingga menyudahkan segala perbantahannya.

Contextual Overview

⁹ Neuerthelesse, deare frendes, we haue perswaded our selues better thynges of you, and thynges whiche accompanie saluation, though we thus speake. ¹⁰ For God is not vnryghteous, to forget your worke & labour of loue, whiche ye haue shewed towarde his name, hauyng ministred to the saintes, and [do] minister. ¹¹ Yea and we desire that euery one of you do shewe the same diligence, to the full assuraunce of hope, vnto the ende, ¹² That ye faynt not, but be folowers of them which through fayth and pacience inherite the promises. ¹³ For when God made promise to Abraham, because he had no greater to sweare by, he sware by hym selfe, ¹⁴ Saying: Surely, blessyng I wyll blesse thee, and multipliyng, multiplie thee. ¹⁵ And so after that he had taryed paciently, he enioyed the promise. ¹⁶ For men veryly sweare by the greater, and an oth for confirmation, is to them an ende of all stryfe. ¹⁷ Wherein God wyllyng very aboundauntly to shewe vnto the heires of promise, the stablenesse of his counsayle, confirmed by an oth: ¹⁸ That by two immutable thynges, in whiche it was vnpossible for God to lye, we myght haue a strong consolation, which haue fledde to holde fast the hope layde before vs:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

swear: Hebrews 6:13, Genesis 14:22, Genesis 21:23, Matthew 23:20-22

an oath: Genesis 21:30, Genesis 21:31, Genesis 31:53, Exodus 22:11, Joshua 9:15-20, 2 Samuel 21:2, Ezekiel 17:16-20

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:24 - General Genesis 24:3 - swear Genesis 25:33 - Swear Genesis 26:28 - Let there Genesis 26:31 - sware Exodus 20:7 - take Deuteronomy 26:3 - which the Ruth 3:13 - the Lord liveth 1 Samuel 20:3 - sware 1 Samuel 24:21 - Swear 2 Samuel 19:23 - sware 1 Kings 18:15 - As the Lord Psalms 18:24 - the Lord recompensed me Isaiah 14:24 - Lord Isaiah 54:9 - General Luke 1:73 - General Hebrews 2:16 - verily Hebrews 6:17 - confirmed it Hebrews 7:21 - sware

Cross-References

Genesis 7:16
And they entryng in, came male and female of all fleshe, as God had commaunded him: and God shut hym in rounde about.

Genesis 8:6
And after the ende of the fourtith day, it came to passe [that] Noah opened the wyndowe of the arke which he had made,

2 Samuel 6:16
And as ye arke of the Lord came into the citie of Dauid, Michol Sauls daughter loked through a windowe, and sawe king Dauid spring and daunce before the Lord, and she despysed him in her heart.

2 Kings 9:30
And when Iehu was come to Iezrahel, Iezabel hearde of it, & paynted her face, and tired her head, and loked out at a wyndowe.

Ezekiel 41:16
The doore postes, and the narow windowes, & the chambers round about, on three sides ouer against the doore, seeled with wood round about, and from the ground vp to the windowes: and the windowes themselues were seeled.

Ezekiel 42:3
Ouer against the twentie cubites, which were for the inner court, and ouer against the pauement, which was for the vtter court, [was] chamber against chamber, three [orders.]

Luke 13:25
When the good man of the house is risen vp, and hath shut to the doore, and ye begyn to stande without, & to knocke at the doore, saying, Lorde, Lorde, open vnto vs: and he shall aunswere, and say vnto you, I knowe you not whence ye are.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For men verily swear by the greater,.... These words contain a reason why God swore by himself, and why his promises, having an oath annexed to them, ought to be believed. Men when they swear, they swear by the greater; not by themselves, as God does, because there is one greater than they; not by any of the creatures on earth, nor by the angels in heaven, but by God; because he is the God of truth, the searcher of hearts, and who can take vengeance on perjurers: and an oath may lawfully be taken, when it is truth that is sworn to, and is just and good; and in cases of weight and moment; and in what is possible and right to perform; and when it is done with deliberation, in the fear of God, with a view to his glory, and the good of men: for an oath is of a moral nature, what God has commanded, and he himself has taken; it has been used by Christ, and by the saints of the Old and New Testament; and is prophesied of the New Testament saints, as what they should practise; and is a part of religious worship:

and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife; it is used to confirm things that are doubtful, and in dispute; and to put an end to strife and contention; so Philo o the Jew says,

"by an oath things doubtful are determined, and things uncertain are confirmed, and what were not believed receive credit.''

The manner in which an oath was taken among the Jews, to which, the apostle writing to such, must be thought to have respect, was this;

"he that swore took the book of the law in his hand, and he stood and swore by the name (of God), or by his surnames; and the judges did not suffer anyone to swear but in the holy tongue; and thus he said, behold I swear by the God of Israel, by him whose name is merciful and gracious, that I do not owe this man anything p.''

The Hebrew word שבעה, used for an oath, is of the root שבע, which signifies to "fill, satiate, satisfy": for an oath being taken about matters in controversy, not clear but doubtful give content unto and satisfy the minds of men; and the same word also signifies "seven", a number of fulness and perfection; an oath being for the perfecting and finishing an affair in debate; agreeably, when covenants were made by oaths, seven witnesses were used, Genesis 21:28 and Herodotus says q as Cocceius r observes, that the Arabians, when they swore at making covenants, anointed the stones with blood.

o De Somniis, p. 567. p Moses Kotsensis Mitzvot Torah, pr. Affirm. 123. q Thalia, l. 3. c. 8. r Lexic. Rad. שבע col. 848.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For men verily swear by the greater - That is, they appeal to God. They never swear by one who is inferior to themselves. The object of the apostle in this declaration is to show that as far as this could be done it had been by God. He could not indeed swear by one greater than himself, but he could make his promise as certain as an oath taken by people was when they solemnly appealed to him. He could appeal to his own existence and veracity, which was at any time the most solemn form of an oath, and thus put the mind to rest in regard to the hope of heaven.

And an oath for confirmation - An oath taken to confirm or establish anything.

Is to them an end of all strife - That is, when two parties are at variance, or have a cause at issue, an oath binds them to adhere to the terms of agreement concluded on, or contracting parties bind themselves by a solemn oath to adhere to the conditions of an agreement, and this puts an end to all strife. They rest satisfied when a solemn oath has been taken, and they feel assured that the agreement will be complied with. Or it may refer to cases where a man was accused of wrong before a court, and where he took a solemn oath that the thing had not been done, and his oath was admitted to be sufficient to put an end to the controversy. The general meaning is clear, that in disputes between man and man, an appeal was made to an oath, and that was allowed to settle it. The connection here is, that as far as the case would admit of, the same thing was done by God. His oath by himself made his promise firm.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 16. Men verily swear by the greater — One who has greater authority; who can take cognizance of the obligation, and punish the breach of it.

An oath for confirmation — "This observation teaches us," says Dr. Macknight, "that both promissory oaths concerning things lawful and in our power, and oaths for the confirmation of things doubtful, when required by proper authority, and taken religiously, are allowable under the Gospel."