Under Gods Command
Joshua 9:19-20 – but all the leaders’ answered, “We have given them our oath by the LORD, the God of Israel, and we cannot touch them now. This is what we will do to them: We will let them live, so that wrath will not fall on us for breaking the oath we swore to them .
Joshua and his advisers had made a mistake. But because they had given an oath to protect the Gibeonites, they would keep their word. The oath was not nullified by the Gibeonites trickery. God had commanded that oaths be kept and breaking an oath was serious. This encourages us not to take our promises lightly.
Under Gods command 