Joshua 9:20

New International Version

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.”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:13

He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him take an oath in God’s name. He became stiff-necked and hardened his heart and would not turn to the Lord, the God of Israel.

Proverbs 20:25

It is a trap to dedicate something rashly and only later to consider one’s vows.

Malachi 3:5

“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.

Romans 1:31

they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.

1 Timothy 1:10

for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine

Joshua 9:19

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

Joshua 9:21

They continued, “Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers in the service of the whole assembly.” So the leaders’ promise to them was kept.