Joshua 9:15

And Joshua made peace with them ,.... Upon the report the princes made of having examined what they had said, and which they found to be true, particularly concerning their victuals:

and made a league with them, to let them live ; and not destroy them as he did the Canaanites, and was ordered to do; they being supposed not to belong to them by the representation of things they had made:

and the princes of the congregation sware unto them ; that they would keep the league and covenant they had made with them inviolable; they ratified it by an oath, which was a sacred solemn thing.