Joshua 9:19

Modern English Version

Yet all the leaders said to the whole congregation, “We swore to them by the Lord God of Israel, so now we may not harm them.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 8:2

Obey the king’s command because of your oath to God.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

The same fate comes to all; there is one fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the evil, for the clean and unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not sacrifice. As is the good person, So is the sinful person; As it is for the one who takes an oath, So also for the one who fears an oath.

Jeremiah 4:2

You shall swear, “As the Lord lives,” in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; then the nations shall bless themselves in Him, and in Him they shall glory.

Joshua 9:18

Now the Israelites did not attack them, for the leaders of the congregation had sworn an oath to them by the Lord, the God of Israel, so the congregation murmured against the leaders.

Joshua 9:20

This is what we will do to them. We will let them live so that wrath will not come upon us due to the oath that we swore to them.”