Numbers 30:10-16

The special case of a married woman, in the obligations upon her soul by reason of her vows, is also particularly noticed; and it should seem, from the great attention which the law of GOD was pleased to pay to this subject, in devoting a whole chapter to the express purpose of marking out the boundaries and extent of the several obligations, that vows were common things among the children of Israel. We have an awful example to show to what a desperate degree of wickedness, in the after ages of the church, the people proceeded, in making vows to offer incense to the queen of heaven, and the LORD'S solemn determination concerning it. See Jeremiah 44:25. But there is such a thing as the gracious vows of GOD in a covenant way, resting in blessings upon his people: here they are sweet and refreshing indeed. See Psalms 66:12.