Psalms 66:13 - Exposition

I will go into thy house with burnt offerings; I will pay thee my vows . In the old world the strict performance of vows was always held to be one of the main obligations of religion. A vow was of the nature of a compact with God, and to break it was an act of flagrant dishonesty, from which men shrank. The Mosaic Law sanctioned vows of various kinds, as the vowing of children to the service of God (Le Psalms 27:1-8 ; 1 Samuel 1:11 ); the vow of the Nazarite ( Numbers 6:2-21 ); and vows of clean or unclean animals (Le Psalms 27:9-13 , 27-29), etc. Clean animals, when vowed, must be either redeemed or sacrificed. The importance of performing vows is borne frequent witness to by the psalmists (see Psalms 22:25 ; Psalms 1:1-6 .14; Psalms 56:12 ; Psalms 61:8 ; Psalms 65:1-13 :l; Psalms 116:14 , Psalms 116:18 ; Psalms 132:2 ).