⁴³ Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh, and the commandment that I have charged you with?

² The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them: and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);

¹² Also on Judah came the hand of God to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the word of Yahweh.

² I say, "Keep the king's command!" because of the oath to God.

¹⁸ For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things; he shall not escape.

¹⁹ Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely my oath that he has despised, and my covenant that he has broken, I will even bring it on his own head.

⁵ Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience' sake.