Joshua 9:19

Tree of Life Version

but all the leaders answered the entire community, “We have sworn to them by Adonai, God of Israel, so now we cannot touch them.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 8:2

I say: “Obey the king’s command, and especially in regard to the oath of God.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

Everyone shares the same destiny: for the righteous and the wicked; for the good, the ritually clean and the defiled; for one who sacrifices and one who does not sacrifice; as the good person so the sinner; as the one who swears like the one who fears an oath.

Jeremiah 4:2

You will swear, ‘As Adonai lives!’ in truth, in justice and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in Him and in Him they will glory.”

Joshua 9:18

But Bnei-Yisrael did not strike them, because the leaders of the community had sworn to them by Adonai, God of Israel. Then the entire community murmured against the leaders,

Joshua 9:20

This is what we will do to them: We will let them live, lest wrath be upon us because of the oath which we swore to them.”