Joshua 2:17

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The men said to her, "We will be free from this oath you made us swear

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  • Gen 24:3-8 : 3 I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living. 4 Instead, go to my country and my kindred to choose a wife for my son Isaac. 5 The servant said to him, "What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land? Should I then take your son back to the land you came from?" 6 Abraham said to him, "Make sure that you do not take my son back there. 7 The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's household and my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'To your descendants I will give this land,' will send His angel before you so that you can find a wife for my son there. 8 If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath of mine. But do not take my son back there."
  • Exod 20:7 : 7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses His name.
  • Lev 19:11-12 : 11 Do not steal. Do not deceive or lie to one another. 12 Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
  • Num 30:2 : 2 Moses spoke to the leaders of the tribes of Israel, saying, 'This is what the LORD has commanded:'
  • Josh 2:20 : 20 But if you reveal this matter of ours, we will be released from the oath you made us swear.
  • 2 Sam 21:1-2 : 1 During the days of David, there was a famine for three years, year after year. David sought the presence of the Lord, and the Lord said, "It concerns Saul and his house, who are guilty of bloodshed, for he killed the Gibeonites." 2 So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites but a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had sworn an oath to them, but Saul had tried to kill them in his zeal for Israel and Judah.)
  • 2 Sam 21:7 : 7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the Lord’s oath taken between David and Jonathan, son of Saul.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 2:18-22
    5 verses
    86%

    18if, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet rope in the window through which you let us down and gathered your family into your house—your father, mother, brothers, and all who belong to you.

    19If anyone leaves the house, their death will be on their own head, and we will not be guilty. But if harm comes to anyone in your house, we will take the blame.

    20But if you reveal this matter of ours, we will be released from the oath you made us swear.

    21She said, "Let it be as you say." So she sent them away, and they departed. Then she tied the scarlet cord in the window.

    22They went to the hill country and stayed there for three days until the pursuers returned. The pursuers searched all along the road but did not find them.

  • Josh 2:12-16
    5 verses
    83%

    12Now then, please swear to me by the LORD that you will show kindness to my family because I have shown kindness to you. Give me a sure sign

    13that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and that you will save us from death."

    14The men said to her, "Our lives for your lives! If you don't tell what we are doing, we will treat you kindly and faithfully when the LORD gives us the land."

    15Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was part of the city wall, and she lived in the wall.

    16She said to them, "Go to the hill country so the pursuers won’t find you. Hide yourselves there for three days until they return, and then go on your way."

  • Josh 9:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19But all the leaders said to the assembly, 'We have sworn an oath to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we cannot touch them.'

    20This is what we will do to them: We will let them live so that no wrath will fall on us for breaking the oath we swore to them.

  • Gen 26:28-29
    2 verses
    74%

    28They replied, "We have clearly seen that the LORD has been with you. So we said, 'There should now be an oath between us and you; let us make a covenant with you.'"

    29"You must not harm us, just as we have not harmed you but have always treated you well and sent you away in peace. Now you are blessed by the LORD."

  • Josh 2:4-9
    6 verses
    74%

    4But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. She said, "Yes, the men came to me, but I didn't know where they were from.

    5At dusk, when it was time to close the city gate, the men left, and I don’t know where they went. Pursue them quickly, and you might catch up with them!"

    6(But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under stalks of flax she had arranged there.)

    7The pursuers set out along the road toward the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as they left, the city gate was shut.

    8Before the spies lay down for the night, Rahab went up to the roof

    9and said to them, "I know that the LORD has given you this land and that fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who live in this country are melting in fear because of you.

  • Gen 24:41
    74%

    41'You will be released from my oath if you go to my family and they refuse to give her to you. Then you will be free from my oath.'

  • Judg 15:12
    73%

    12They said to him, "We have come down to tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines." Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you yourselves will not harm me."

  • Gen 42:31
    73%

    31'But we said to him, "We are honest men, not spies.

  • Neh 5:12
    73%

    12'We will give it back,' they responded, 'and we will not demand anything more from them. We will do as you say.' Then I summoned the priests and made the nobles and officials take an oath to do what they had promised.

  • Gen 24:8
    72%

    8If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath of mine. But do not take my son back there."

  • Gen 44:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7But they replied to him, "Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

    8"Look, we even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found in the mouths of our sacks. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master's house?

  • Gen 42:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11We are all sons of one man. We are honest men; your servants are not spies.'

    12But Joseph insisted, 'No! You have come to see the vulnerability of the land.'

  • Josh 6:22
    71%

    22But to the two men who had spied out the land, Joshua said, 'Go to the house of the prostitute and bring her out, along with everyone who belongs to her, just as you swore to her.'

  • Judg 11:10
    71%

    10The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, 'The Lord is our witness; we will certainly do as you say.'

  • Ruth 1:10
    71%

    10They said to her, "We will go back with you to your people."

  • Gen 24:57
    71%

    57Then they said, 'Let’s call the young woman and ask her about it.'

  • Judg 21:7
    71%

    7'What can we do for the survivors to provide wives, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them our daughters?'

  • Gen 24:37
    71%

    37My master made me swear an oath, saying, 'You must not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live.

  • Judg 21:22
    71%

    22'When their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will say to them, "Do us a favor by allowing them to have these wives, for we did not obtain wives for them during the battle. And you did not give your daughters to them, so you are not guilty of breaking your oath."'

  • Num 30:10
    70%

    10A widow or a divorced woman is bound by all her vows and the obligations she places on herself.

  • Gen 44:10
    70%

    10The steward replied, "Let it be as you say: whoever is found with it will become my slave, and the rest of you will be innocent."

  • Gen 34:15
    70%

    15However, we will agree to you on one condition: if you become like us by every male among you being circumcised.

  • Gen 44:32
    70%

    32For your servant took responsibility for the boy before my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.'

  • Jer 42:5
    70%

    5They said to Jeremiah, "May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act according to every word the LORD your God sends you to tell us.

  • 1 Sam 14:9
    69%

    9If they say to us, 'Wait there until we come to you,' we will stay in our place and not go up to them.

  • Josh 9:6
    69%

    6They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel: “We have come from a distant land; now make a treaty with us.”

  • Judg 4:20
    69%

    20He said to her, "Stand at the entrance to the tent. If anyone comes and asks you, 'Is there a man here?' say, 'No.'"

  • Gen 34:17
    69%

    17But if you will not listen to us and get circumcised, we will take our daughter and leave.

  • Josh 9:11
    69%

    11So our elders and all the inhabitants of our land told us, ‘Take provisions for the journey and go to meet them. Tell them: We are your servants; now make a treaty with us.’

  • Judg 21:1
    69%

    1The men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, saying, 'None of us will give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin.'