Joshua 2:17

World English Bible (2000)

The men said to her, "We will be guiltless of this your oath which you have made us to swear.

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  • Gen 24:3-8 : 3 I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live. 4 But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac." 5 The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?" 6 Abraham said to him, "Beware that you don't bring my son there again. 7 Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there. 8 If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again."
  • Exod 20:7 : 7 "You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
  • Lev 19:11-12 : 11 "'You shall not steal. "'You shall not lie. "'You shall not deceive one another. 12 "'You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
  • Num 30:2 : 2 When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
  • Josh 2:20 : 20 But if you talk about this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you have made us to swear."
  • 2 Sam 21:1-2 : 1 There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, "It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites." 2 The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them: and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);
  • 2 Sam 21:7 : 7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

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  • Josh 2:18-22
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    18Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which you did let us down by. You shall gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father's household.

    19It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.

    20But if you talk about this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you have made us to swear."

    21She said, "According to your words, so be it." She sent them away, and they departed. She tied the scarlet line in the window.

    22They went, and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but didn't find them.

  • Josh 2:12-16
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    12Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a true token;

    13and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death."

    14The men said to her, "Our life for yours, if you don't talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you."

    15Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.

    16She said to them, "Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way."

  • Josh 9:19-20
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    75%

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

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

  • Gen 26:28-29
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    74%

    28They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,

    29that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh."

  • Josh 2:4-9
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    4The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, "Yes, the men came to me, but I didn't know where they came from.

    5It happened about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out. Where the men went, I don't know. Pursue them quickly; for you will overtake them."

    6But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof.

    7The men pursued them the way to the Jordan to the fords: and as soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.

    8Before they had laid down, she came up to them on the roof;

    9and she said to the men, "I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

  • Gen 24:41
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    41Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don't give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.'

  • Judg 15:12
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    12They said to him, "We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines." Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you will not fall on me yourselves."

  • Gen 42:31
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    31We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies.

  • Neh 5:12
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    12Then they said, "We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say." Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.

  • Gen 24:8
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    8If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again."

  • Gen 44:7-8
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    7They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

    8Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord's house?

  • Gen 42:11-12
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    11We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies."

    12He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!"

  • Josh 6:22
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    22Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the prostitute's house, and bring out from there the woman and all that she has, as you swore to her."

  • Judg 11:10
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    10The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Yahweh shall be witness between us; surely according to your word so will we do."

  • Ruth 1:10
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    10They said to her, "No, but we will return with you to your people."

  • Gen 24:57
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    57They said, "We will call the young lady, and ask her."

  • Judg 21:7
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    7How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?"

  • Gen 24:37
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    37My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,

  • Judg 21:22
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    22It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, 'Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, otherwise you would now be guilty.'"

  • Num 30:10
    70%

    10"If she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,

  • Gen 44:10
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    10He said, "Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found will be my bondservant; and you will be blameless."

  • Gen 34:15
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    15Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

  • Gen 44:32
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    32For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I don't bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.'

  • Jer 42:5
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    5Then they said to Jeremiah, Yahweh be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don't do according to all the word with which Yahweh your God shall send you to us.

  • 1 Sam 14:9
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    9If they say thus to us, 'Wait until we come to you!' then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up to them.

  • Josh 9:6
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    6They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, "We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us."

  • Judg 4:20
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    20He said to her, "Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man comes and inquires of you, and says, 'Is there any man here?' that you shall say, 'No.'"

  • Gen 34:17
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    17But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone."

  • Josh 9:11
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    11Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, 'Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, "We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us."'

  • Judg 21:1
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    1Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, "There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife."