Joshua 9:15-20
Read Joshua 9 in full →15aAnd Joshua made peace with them and cut a covenant with them, to let them live; and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.
16Now it happened at the end of three days after they had cut a covenant with them, that they heard that they were near them and that they were living 1nearly among them. 17Then the sons of Israel set out and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were aGibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kiriath-jearim. 18But the sons of Israel did not strike them down because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh the God of Israel. And the whole congregation grumbled against the leaders. 19Then all the leaders said to the whole congregation, “We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel, so now we cannot touch them. 20“This we will do to them, even let them live, so that wrath will not be upon us for the oath which we swore to them.”