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Joshua 9:18 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The children of Israel didn’t strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes. "

Joshua 9:18

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16 At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.

17 The children of Israel traveled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

18 The children of Israel didn’t strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.

19 But all the princes said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel. Now therefore we may not touch them.

20 We will do this to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.”

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Judges 21:5

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"The children of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to the LORD?” For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to the LORD to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”"

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Judith 4:12

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"They cried to the God of Israel earnestly with one consent, that he would not give their children as prey, their wives as plunder, the cities of their inheritance to destruction, and the sanctuary to being profaned and being made a reproach, for the nations to rejoice at."

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Joshua 22:33

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"The thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and spoke no more of going up against them to war, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben and the children of Gad lived."

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Numbers 14:2

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"All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!"

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Exodus 16:2

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"The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;"

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Ezra 9:1

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"Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites."

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Joshua 9:1

"When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it"

Joshua 9:2

"they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord."

Joshua 9:3

"But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,"

Joshua 9:4

"they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wineskins,"

Joshua 9:5

"and old and patched sandals on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their food supply was dry and moldy."

Joshua 9:6

"They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us.”"

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