Genesis 24:3

3. Swear by the Lord To the sacredness of the manner of the oath is added the solemnity of this use of the holy NAME . This servant must swear by Jehovah, God of the heavens and God of the earth . Thus Abraham puts him under the most solemn oath that could then bind the conscience of a man .

Not… of the Canaanites Lot’s case might have been a sufficient warning, and the idolatries and growing iniquity of the Amorites, though not yet full, (Genesis 15:16,) were plainly such as to show the pious patriarch the fearful danger of matrimonial alliances with them . Here we note the ancient enforcing of the principle of the apostolic precept: “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers . ” 2 Corinthians 6:14. What sorrows and soul-losses have followed from such unhallowed unions!