All the leaders answered, “We have sworn an oath to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we cannot touch them.
Keep the king’s command, I say, because of your oath before God.
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 if you can swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will b
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