Joshua 9:19

New Century Version

But the leaders answered, “We have given our promise before the Lord, the God of Israel, so we cannot attack them now.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 8:2

Obey the king’s command, because you made a promise to God.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

Good and bad people end up the same— those who are right and those who are wrong, those who are good and those who are evil, those who are clean and those who are unclean, those who sacrifice and those who do not. The same things happen to a good person as happen to a sinner, to a person who makes promises to God and to one who does not.

Jeremiah 4:2

If you say when you make a promise, ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’ and you can say it in a truthful, honest, and right way, then the nations will be blessed by him, and they will praise him for what he has done.”

Joshua 9:18

But the Israelites did not attack those cities, because they had made a promise to them before the Lord, the God of Israel. All the Israelites grumbled against the leaders.

Joshua 9:20

This is what we must do. We must let them live. Otherwise, God’s anger will be against us for breaking the oath we swore to them.