Joshua 9:19

Free Bible Version

But the leaders replied to the people, “We swore to them by the Lord, the God of Israel, so we cannot lay a hand on them now.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 8:2

My advice is to do what the king says, since that's what you promised God.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

Yet we all share the same destiny—those who do right, those who do evil, the good, the religiously-observant and those that are not, those who sacrifice and those who don't. Those who do good are as those who sin, those who make vows to God are as those who don't.

Jeremiah 4:2

and if when you make your vows, you do so only to me, sincerely, truly, and honestly, then the nations will be blessed by me, and they will praise me.

Joshua 9:18

But the Israelites did not attack them because of the treaty sworn by the leaders of the assembly in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. At this all the Israelites protested against the leaders.

Joshua 9:20

So this is what we're going to do to them. We'll let them live, so that we won't be punished for breaking the oath that we swore to them.”