Joshua 9:19
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19 But all the leaders said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel, and now we must not touch them.
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Ecclesiastes 8:2
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2 Keep[a] the king’s command, and because of your sacred oath(A)
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- 8.2 Heb I keep
Jeremiah 4:2
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2 and if you swear, “As the Lord lives!”
in truth, in justice, and in uprightness,
then nations shall be blessed[a] by you,[b]
and by you[c] they shall boast.(A)
Ecclesiastes 9:2
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2 is vanity,[a] since the same fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil,[b] to the clean and the unclean, to those who sacrifice and those who do not sacrifice. As are the good, so are the sinners; those who swear are like those who shun an oath.(A)
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Joshua 9:20
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20 This is what we will do to them: we will let them live, so that wrath may not come upon us, because of the oath that we swore to them.”
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