Joshua 9

2. To shed the blood of another contrary to promise. Thus after the princes of Israel had sworn to the Gibeonites that they should live (Joshua 9:15), Saul slew them (2 Samuel 21:1). Here were two sins twisted together, breach of oath and murder.

And therefore the Author to the Hebrews says, that God, to make known the stableness of his counsel promised,bound himself with an oath; that by two immutable things (to wit, God's promise, and oath) we might have strong consolation: so that an oath binds a man double to the per…

It was a bridle to all their enemies, except Amalek, upon whose country they travelled in the wilderness, when it was the interest of state in all those nations to rout that swarm of people that must have some seat to dwell in; and every nation might justly fear to be dispossess…

That this idol was worshipped not only by the Sidonians but also by the Philistines, and indeed by all who inhabited the seacoast, is shown by (1 Samuel 31:10). II. There was also a town by this name (Deuteronomy 1:4; Joshua 9:10), which can be doubted by no one to have derived…

As for that judgement of Urim spoken of in Numbers 27:21, which was by way of Oracle, the high Priest having Vrim and Thummim about him giving answers in God's name, which were of infallible truth, and made a supreme determination, that was for the resolution of doubtful and dif…

If the oath be of things lawful and possible, it binds and is to be kept, though we were induced to it by deceit. Joshua deceived by the Gibeonites, was brought to make covenant of peace with them, and to bind it by an oath: now perceiving after three days, that they had wrought…