Joshua 9:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

And the children of Israel did not strike them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation complained against the leaders.

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  • Ps 15:4 : 4 In whose eyes a vile person is despised; but he honors those who fear the LORD. He who swears to his own hurt, and does not change.
  • Eccl 5:2 : 2 Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God, for God is in heaven, and you are on earth; therefore, let your words be few.
  • Eccl 5:6 : 6 Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the angel that it was an error; why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?
  • Eccl 9:2 : 2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrifices, and to him that does not sacrifice; as is the good, so is the sinner; and he who swears, as he who fears an oath.
  • 2 Sam 21:7 : 7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the LORD's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

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  • Josh 9:19-22
    4 verses
    89%

    19But all the leaders said to all the congregation, We have sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.

    20This we will do to them; we will let them live, lest wrath be upon us because of the oath we swore to them.

    21And the leaders said to them, Let them live; but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for all the congregation, as the leaders had promised them.

    22And Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, Why have you deceived us, saying, We are very far from you; when you dwell among us?

  • Josh 9:14-17
    4 verses
    76%

    14And the men took some of their provisions, and did not ask counsel from the mouth of the LORD.

    15And Joshua made peace with them, and made a treaty with them, to let them live: and the leaders of the congregation swore to them.

    16And it happened at the end of three days after they had made a treaty with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.

    17And the children of Israel journeyed and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.

  • Judg 21:5-7
    3 verses
    72%

    5And the children of Israel said, Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come up with the congregation to the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the LORD at Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

    6And the children of Israel felt sorry for Benjamin their brother, and said, Today one tribe is cut off from Israel.

    7What shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them our daughters as wives?

  • Josh 11:19
    71%

    19There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon: all others they took in battle.

  • Judg 21:18
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    18However, we cannot give them wives from our daughters, for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that gives a wife to Benjamin.

  • 2 Chr 15:14
    69%

    14And they swore to the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

  • Josh 5:6
    69%

    6For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD, to whom the LORD swore that He would not show them the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • 2 Sam 21:2
    69%

    2So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but a remnant of the Amorites; and the Israelites had sworn to them. Yet Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for Israel and Judah.)

  • Judg 21:1
    69%

    1Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, None of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.

  • Josh 9:26
    69%

    26And so he did to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they did not kill them.

  • Deut 1:34
    69%

    34And the LORD heard the sound of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,

  • Num 32:10-11
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    69%

    10And the LORD's anger was kindled at that time, and he swore, saying,

    11Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,

  • Josh 22:33
    68%

    33And the thing pleased the children of Israel, and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land where the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.

  • Num 16:41
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    41But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have killed the people of the LORD.

  • Josh 22:12
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    12And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh to go up to war against them.

  • 2 Kgs 18:12
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    12because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded, and neither would they listen to them nor do them.

  • Neh 13:2
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    2because they did not meet the children of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them; however, our God turned the curse into a blessing.

  • Ps 106:34
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    34They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them.

  • Num 14:16
    68%

    16Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.

  • Josh 7:12
    68%

    12Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you anymore, except you destroy the accursed from among you.

  • Num 14:10
    68%

    10But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 28:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13And said to them, You shall not bring the captives here, for whereas we have offended against the LORD already, you intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass, for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.

    14So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the leaders and all the congregation.

  • Num 1:54
    68%

    54And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they did.

  • Josh 22:21
    67%

    21Then the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and said to the heads of the thousands of Israel,

  • Judg 8:34
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    34And the children of Israel did not remember the LORD their God, who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side:

  • Num 31:16
    67%

    16Look, these women caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.

  • Num 2:33
    67%

    33But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Neh 13:25
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    25So I contended with them and cursed them, struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, You shall not give your daughters as wives to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or yourselves.

  • 2 Chr 13:12
    67%

    12And behold, God himself is with us as our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to sound alarm against you. O children of Israel, do not fight against the LORD God of your fathers; for you shall not prosper.

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    20And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because this people have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice;

  • Num 14:23
    67%

    23Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

  • Josh 9:11
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    11Therefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take provisions with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, We are your servants: therefore now make a treaty with us.

  • Exod 6:9
    67%

    9And Moses spoke so to the children of Israel: but they did not listen to Moses because of anguish of spirit and cruel bondage.

  • Judg 2:15
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    15Wherever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for harm, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn to them: and they were greatly distressed.