Joshua 9:19

New International Version

but all the leaders answered, “We have given them our oath by the Lord, the God of Israel, and we cannot touch them now.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 8:2

Obey the king’s command, I say, because you took an oath before God.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As it is with the good, so with the sinful; as it is with those who take oaths, so with those who are afraid to take them.

Jeremiah 4:2

and if in a truthful, just and righteous way you swear, ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’ then the nations will invoke blessings by him and in him they will boast.”

Joshua 9:18

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

Joshua 9:20

This is what we will do to them: We will let them live, so that God’s wrath will not fall on us for breaking the oath we swore to them.”