Joshua 9:19

Holman Christian Standard Bible

All the leaders answered them, “We have sworn an oath to them by the Lord, the God of Israel, and now we cannot touch them.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 8:2

Keep the king’s command because of your oath made before God.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

Everything is the same for everyone: there is one fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not sacrifice. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as for the one who takes an oath, so for the one who fears an oath.

Jeremiah 4:2

then you can swear, “As the Lord lives,” in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him and will pride themselves in Him.

Joshua 9:18

But the Israelites did not attack them, because the leaders of the community had sworn an oath to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. Then the whole community grumbled against the leaders.

Joshua 9:20

This is how we will treat them: we will let them live, so that no wrath will fall on us because of the oath we swore to them.”