Joshua 9:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So Joshua made peace with them, and made an agreement with them that they were not to be put to death: and the chiefs of the people took an oath to them.

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  • 2 Sam 21:2 : 2 Then the king sent for the Gibeonites; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but were the last of the Amorites, to whom the children of Israel had given an oath; but Saul, in his passion for the children of Israel and Judah, had made an attempt on their lives:)
  • Josh 11:19 : 19 Not one town made peace with the children of Israel, but only the Hivites of Gibeon: they took them all in war.
  • Jer 18:7-8 : 7 Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it; 8 If, in that very minute, that nation of which I was talking is turned away from its evil, my purpose of doing evil to them will be changed.
  • Exod 23:32 : 32 Make no agreement with them or with their gods.
  • Deut 20:10-11 : 10 When you come to a town, before attacking it, make an offer of peace. 11 And if it gives you back an answer of peace, opening its doors to you, then all the people in it may be put to forced work as your servants.
  • Josh 2:12-19 : 12 So now, will you give me your oath by the Lord, that, because I have been kind to you, you will be kind to my father's house, 13 And that you will keep safe my father and mother and my brothers and sisters and all they have, so that death may not come on us? 14 And the men said to her, Our life for yours if you keep our business secret; and when the Lord has given us the land, we will keep faith and be kind to you. 15 Then she let them down from the window by a cord, for the house where she was living was on the town wall. 16 And she said to them, Get away into the hill-country, or the men who have gone after you will overtake you; keep yourselves safe there for three days, till the searchers have come back, and then go on your way. 17 And the men said to her, We will only be responsible for this oath which you have made us take, 18 If, when we come into the land, you put this cord of bright red thread in the window from which you let us down; and get your father and mother and your brothers and all your family into the house; 19 Then if anyone goes out of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, we will not be responsible; but if any damage comes to anyone in the house, his blood will be on our heads.
  • Josh 6:22-25 : 22 Then Joshua said to the two men who had been sent to make a search through the land, Go into the house of the loose woman, and get her out, and all who are with her, as you gave her your oath. 23 So the searchers went in and got out Rahab and her father and mother and her brothers and all she had, and they got out all her family; and they took them outside the tents of Israel. 24 Then, after burning up the town and everything in it, they put the silver and gold and the vessels of brass and iron into the store-house of the Lord's house. 25 But Joshua kept Rahab, the loose woman, and her father's family and all she had, from death, and so she got a living-place among the children of Israel to this day; because she kept safe the men whom Joshua had sent to make a search through the land.

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    16 Now three days after, when they had made this agreement with them, they had word that these men were their neighbours, living near them.

  • Josh 9:18-22
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    18 And the children of Israel did not put them to death, because the chiefs of the people had taken an oath to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. And all the people made an outcry against the chiefs.

    19 But all the chiefs said to the people, We have taken an oath to them by the Lord, the God of Israel, and so we may not put our hands on them.

    20 This is what we will do to them: we will not put them to death, for fear that wrath may come on us because of our oath to them.

    21 Keep them living, and let them be servants, cutting wood and getting water for all the people. And all the people did as the chiefs had said to them.

    22 Then Joshua sent for them, and said to them, Why have you been false to us, saying, We are very far from you, when you are living among us?

  • Josh 9:6-8
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    6 And they came to Joshua to the tent-circle at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, We have come from a far country: so now make an agreement with us.

    7 And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, It may be that you are living among us; how then may we make an agreement with you?

    8 And they said to Joshua, We are your servants. Then Joshua said to them, Who are you and where do you come from?

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    11 So the responsible men and all the people of our country said to us, Take food with you for the journey and go to them, and say to them, We are your servants: so now make an agreement with us.

  • Josh 11:18-19
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    18 For a long time Joshua made war on all those kings.

    19 Not one town made peace with the children of Israel, but only the Hivites of Gibeon: they took them all in war.

  • Josh 9:24-27
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    24 And, answering Joshua, they said, Because it came to the ears of your servants that the Lord your God had given orders to his servant Moses to give you all this land, and to send destruction on all the people living in it, because of you; so, fearing greatly for our lives because of you, we have done this.

    25 And now we are in your hands: do to us whatever seems good and right to you.

    26 So he kept them safe from the children of Israel, and did not let them be put to death.

    27 And that day Joshua made them servants, cutting wood and getting water for the people and for the altar of the Lord, in the place marked out by him, to this day.

  • Josh 24:25
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    25 So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem.

  • Josh 9:2-3
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    2 Came together with one purpose, to make war against Joshua and Israel.

    3 And the men of Gibeon, hearing what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

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    15 Then the Lord said to Joshua,

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    1 Now when it came to the ears of Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, that Joshua had taken Ai, and had given it up to the curse (for as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king); and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living among them;

  • Josh 1:12
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    12 And to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said,

  • Josh 22:6
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    6 Then Joshua gave them his blessing and sent them away: and they went back to their tents.

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    14 And they made an oath to the Lord, with a loud voice, sounding wind-instruments and horns.

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    14 And the men took some of their food, without requesting directions from the Lord.

  • Josh 22:1
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    1 Then Joshua sent for the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh,

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    25 And Joshua said to them, Have no fear and do not be troubled; be strong and take heart: for so will the Lord do to all against whom you make war.

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    44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

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    10 Then Joshua gave their orders to those who were in authority over the people, saying,

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    9 So keep the words of this agreement and do them, so that it may be well for you in everything you do.

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    15 Till the Lord has given your brothers rest, as he has given it to you, and they have taken their heritage in the land which the Lord your God is giving them: then you will go back to the land of your heritage which Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave you on the east side of Jordan.

    16 Then they said to Joshua in answer, Whatever you say to us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.

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    20 Now when Joshua and the children of Israel had come to the end of their war of complete destruction, and had put to death all but a small band who had got safely into the walled towns,

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    9 And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come to me here: and give ear to the words of the Lord your God.

    10 And Joshua said, By this you will see that the living God is among you, and that he will certainly send out from before you the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Hivite and the Perizzite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Jebusite.