Why then did you not keep your oath to the Lord and obey the command I gave you?”

现在你为何不遵守你指着耶和华起的誓和我所吩咐你的命令呢？”

你为何不遵守你对耶和华的誓言和我吩咐你的命令呢？”

你为何不遵守你对耶和华的誓言和我吩咐你的命令呢？”

现在你为何不守你向耶和华起的誓，不遵行我的命令？”

现在你为什么不遵守你向耶和华所起的誓，和我吩咐你的命令呢？”

現在你為何不遵守你指着耶和華起的誓和我所吩咐你的命令呢？」

你為何不遵守你對耶和華的誓言和我吩咐你的命令呢？」

你為何不遵守你對耶和華的誓言和我吩咐你的命令呢？」

現在你為何不守你向耶和華起的誓，不遵行我的命令？」

現在你為甚麼不遵守你向耶和華所起的誓，和我吩咐你的命令呢？”

你為甚麼不遵守你對永恆主所起的誓，也不遵守我所吩咐關於你的命令呢？』

爾何不守指耶和華所誓、及我戒爾之命乎、

何爾不守所誓、不遵我命乎。

爾何不守指主所發之誓、不遵我諭爾之命耶、

So why didn’t you keep your promise to the Lord? Why didn’t you obey the command I gave you?”

Why then have you not kept your oath to the Lord and the commandment with which I commanded you?”

Then why haven’t you kept your oath to the Lord and obeyed my command?”

So why have you not kept the LORD’s oath and the command that I gave you?”

Why then have you not kept the oath of the Lord, and the command which I imposed on you?”

Why then have you not kept the oath of the Lord and the commandment that I gave you?”

Why then hast thou not kept the oath of Jehovah, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?

So why have you not kept the Lord’s oath and the command that I gave you?”

Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?

Why then have you broken the oath you made before the LORD and disobeyed the order I gave you?”

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

Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience.

The king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them.( Now the Gibeonites were not a part of Israel but were survivors of the Amorites; the Israelites had sworn to spare them, but Saul in his zeal for Israel and Judah had tried to annihilate them.)

Obey the king’s command, I say, because you took an oath before God.

Also in Judah the hand of God was on the people to give them unity of mind to carry out what the king and his officials had ordered, following the word of the Lord.

He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Because he had given his hand in pledge and yet did all these things, he shall not escape.“‘ Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, I will repay him for despising my oath and breaking my covenant.