“the oath He swore to our father Abraham, to grant us”
Luke 1:73
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Connection with God's oath to Abraham
Zechariah sang this when he held his newborn son John, some two thousand years after God swore His oath to Abraham on Moriah. The Messiah was about to be born, and a priest was still singing about the oath God swore on that mountain.
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Zechariah's wife Elizabeth, Elisabet (G1665) in Greek, carried the word oath in her name. So at their son's naming a priest whose wife's name held the word oath sang of the oath God swore to Abraham, the oath Isaac's well was named beside, in the months before Christ was born.
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