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

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Joshua 9 contains 27 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.