The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
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TSK · Joshua 2:12
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The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which you did let us down by. You shall gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father's household.
The children of Israel didn't strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.
You shall not only while yet I live show me the loving kindness of Yahweh, that I not die;
David said to him, "Will you bring me down to this troop?" He said, "Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop."
For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?"
Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in its midst.
without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,