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43 Why then have you not kept your oath to the Lord and the commandment with which I charged you?”

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43 Why then did you not keep your oath to the Lord and obey the command I gave you?”

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Therefore one must be subject, not only because of wrath but also because of conscience.(A)

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Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience.(A)

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18 Because he despised the oath and broke the covenant, because he gave his hand and yet did all these things, he shall not escape.(A) 19 Therefore thus says the Lord God: As I live, I will surely return upon his head my oath that he despised and my covenant that he broke.

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18 He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Because he had given his hand in pledge(A) and yet did all these things, he shall not escape.

19 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, I will repay him for despising my oath and breaking my covenant.(B)

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Keep[a] the king’s command, and because of your sacred oath(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 8.2 Heb I keep

Obey the King

Obey the king’s command, I say, because you took an oath before God.

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12 The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the officials commanded by the word of the Lord.

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12 Also in Judah the hand of God was on the people to give them unity(A) of mind to carry out what the king and his officials had ordered, following the word of the Lord.

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So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not of the people of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites; although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had tried to wipe them out in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)(A)

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The king summoned the Gibeonites(A) and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not a part of Israel but were survivors of the Amorites; the Israelites had sworn to spare them, but Saul in his zeal for Israel and Judah had tried to annihilate them.)

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