Joshua 9:19 “All the leaders answered, “We have sworn an oath to them by the LORD,…”

Joshua 9:19

All the leaders answered, “We have sworn an oath to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we cannot touch them.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

But all the princes said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel. Now therefore we may not touch them.

American Standard Version

But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by Jehovah, the God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then all the Princes said vnto all the Congregation, We haue sworne vnto them by the Lord God of Israel: nowe therefore we may not touch them.

Darby Translation

And all the princes said to all the assembly, We have sworn unto them by Jehovah the God of Israel, and now we may not touch them.

Young's Literal Translation

And all the princes say unto all the company, 'We — we have sworn to them by Jehovah, God of Israel; and now, we are not able to come against them;

Bible in Basic English

But all the chiefs said to the people, We have taken an oath to them by the Lord, the God of Israel, and so we may not put our hands on them.

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Cross references

“We have”

Ecclesiastes 8:2 Joshua 9:20 Ecclesiastes 9:2 Jeremiah 4:2

Ecclesiastes 8:2 · BSB

Keep the king’s command, I say, because of your oath before God.

Joshua 9:20 · BSB

This is how we will treat them: We will let them live, so that no wrath will fall on us because of the oath we swore to them.”

Ecclesiastes 9:2 · BSB

It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it…

Jeremiah 4:2 · BSB

and if you can swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

18But the Israelites did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn an oath to them by the LORD, the God of Israel. And the whole congregation grumbled against the leaders.

20This is how we will treat them: We will let them live, so that no wrath will fall on us because of the oath we swore to them.”

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