One of the commandments that is most alien to our ears is that if a man vow with an oath to do evil or to do good, he is guilty of a trespass if he does not keep his oath. Yes, to do bad, too. You’ll find this in Leviticus chapter 5 and verse 4. For whatever reason, God saw fit to wait until near the end of David’s reign to bring up the issue of the broken oath to the Gibeonites. So today we study the fallout of Saul’s zeal for Israel and Judah that broke Joshua’s sworn covenant with the Gibeonites.
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