Ecclesiastes 8:2 References

2 I say, "Keep the command of the king because of the aoath before God.

a Exodus 22:11, 2 Samuel 21:7, Ezekiel 17:18

Exodus 22

11 an aoath before the Lord shall be made by the two of them that he has not laid hands on his neighbor's property; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

2 Samuel 21

7 But the king spared aMephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, bbecause of the oath of the Lord which was between them, between David and Saul's son Jonathan.

Ezekiel 17

18 'Now he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, and behold, he apledged his allegiance, yet did all these things; he shall not escape.'"