Joshua 9:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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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“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.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.”
King James Version · Public Domain“This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“this we do to them, and have kept them alive, and wrath is not upon us, because of the oath which we have sworn to them.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Joshua 9:20 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Samuel 21:1During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
- 2 Chronicles 36:13He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.
- Proverbs 20:25It is a trap for a man to dedicate something rashly, only later to reconsider his vows.
- Ezekiel 17:12“Now say to this rebellious house: ‘Do you not know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, carried off its king and officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.
- Ezekiel 17:15But this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and yet escape?’
- Ezekiel 17:16‘As surely as I live,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘he will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who enthroned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke.
- Zechariah 5:3Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.
- Zechariah 5:4I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”
- Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Romans 1:31They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.
- 1 Timothy 1:10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching
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