Joshua 9:19

New American Bible - revised edition

these all remonstrated with the community, “We have sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel, and so we cannot harm them.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 8:2

Observe the command of the king, in view of your oath to God.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

Everything is the same for everybody: the same lot for the just and the wicked, for the good, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who offers sacrifice and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who takes an oath, so it is for the one who fears an oath.

Jeremiah 4:2

And swear, “As the Lord lives,” in truth, in judgment, and in justice, Then the nations shall bless themselves in him and in him glory.

Joshua 9:18

but did not attack them, because the leaders of the community had sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. When the entire community grumbled against the leaders,

Joshua 9:20

Let us therefore let them live, and so deal with them that no wrath fall upon us because of the oath we have sworn to them.”