Joshua 9:20
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."
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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.

Joshua 9:21
They continued, "Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for the whole congregation." So the leaders kept their promise.


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

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2 Samuel 21:1-6
Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites…



2 Chronicles 36:13
And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.



Proverbs 20:25
It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make inquiry.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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