Joshua 9:19

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

but all the leaders told the whole community,“We swore an oath to them in the name of the LORD God of Israel. So now we can’t hurt them!

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 9:20 : 20 We must let them live so we can escape the curse attached to the oath we swore to them.”
  • Eccl 8:2 : 2 Obey the king’s command, because you took an oath before God to be loyal to him.
  • Eccl 9:2 : 2 Everyone shares the same fate– the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the ceremonially clean and unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. What happens to the good person, also happens to the sinner; what happens to those who make vows, also happens to those who are afraid to make vows.
  • Jer 4:2 : 2 You must be truthful, honest and upright when you take an oath saying,‘As surely as the LORD lives!’ If you do, the nations will pray to be as blessed by him as you are and will make him the object of their boasting.”

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    18The Israelites did not attack them because the leaders of the community had sworn an oath to them in the name of the LORD God of Israel. The whole community criticized the leaders,

  • Josh 9:20-22
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    20We must let them live so we can escape the curse attached to the oath we swore to them.”

    21The leaders then added,“Let them live.” So they became woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had decided.

    22Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said to them,“Why did you trick us by saying,‘We live far away from you,’ when you really live nearby?

  • Josh 9:15
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    15Joshua made a peace treaty with them and agreed to let them live. The leaders of the community sealed it with an oath.

  • Neh 5:12
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    12They replied,“We will return these things, and we will no longer demand anything from them. We will do just as you say.” Then I called the priests and made the wealthy and the officials swear to do what had been promised.

  • 2 Chr 15:14
    72%

    14They swore their allegiance to the LORD, shouting their approval loudly and sounding trumpets and horns.

  • Josh 9:11
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    11Our leaders and all who live in our land told us,‘Take provisions for your journey and go meet them. Tell them,“We are willing to be your subjects. Make a treaty with us.”’

  • Josh 2:17
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    17The men said to her,“We are not bound by this oath you made us swear unless the following conditions are met:

  • Judg 21:7
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    7How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, we took an oath in the LORD’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”

  • Judg 21:18
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    18But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, for the Israelites took an oath, saying,‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’

  • Neh 9:38
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    38The People Pledge to be Faithful(10:1)“Because of all of this we are entering into a binding covenant in written form; our leaders, our Levites, and our priests have affixed their names on the sealed document.”

  • Neh 10:29-30
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    71%

    29hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders and enter into a curse and an oath to adhere to the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey carefully all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, along with his ordinances and his statutes.

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  • Dan 9:11
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    11“All Israel has broken your law and turned away by not obeying you. Therefore you have poured out on us the judgment solemnly threatened in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against you.

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    5So Ezra got up and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel take an oath to carry out this plan. And they all took a solemn oath.

  • Judg 15:12
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  • Gen 26:28-29
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    14Shall we once again break your commandments and intermarry with these abominable peoples? Would you not be so angered by us that you would wipe us out, with no survivor or remnant?

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    12All the assembly replied in a loud voice:“We will do just as you have said!

  • Josh 22:24
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