Joshua 9:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Prov 12:19 : 19 True lips are certain for ever, but a false tongue is only for a minute.

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  • Josh 9:15
    83%

    15 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.

  • Josh 9:17-18
    2 verses
    83%

    17 And the children of Israel went forward on their journey, and on the third day came to their towns. Now their towns were Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kiriath-jearim.

    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.

  • Josh 9:6-8
    3 verses
    78%

    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?

  • Josh 9:1-4
    4 verses
    77%

    1 Now on hearing the news of these things, all the kings on the west side of Jordan, in the hill-country and the lowlands and by the Great Sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites,

    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,

    4 Acting with deceit, got food together as if for a long journey; and took old food-bags for their asses, and old and cracked wine-skins kept together with cord;

  • Josh 10:1-6
    6 verses
    76%

    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;

    2 He was in great fear, because Gibeon was a great town, like one of the king's towns, greater than Ai, and all the men in it were men of war.

    3 So Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, sent to Hoham, king of Hebron, and to Piram, king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia, king of Lachish, and to Debir, king of Eglon, saying,

    4 Come up to me and give me help, and let us make an attack on Gibeon: for they have made peace with Joshua and the children of Israel.

    5 So the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, were banded together, and went up with all their armies and took up their position before Gibeon and made war against it.

    6 And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the tent-circle at Gilgal, saying, Be not slow to send help to your servants; come up quickly to our support and keep us safe: for all the kings of the Amorites from the hill-country have come together against us.

  • Josh 9:20-22
    3 verses
    75%

    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 9:11
    73%

    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 3:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and, moving on from Shittim, he and all the children of Israel came to Jordan and were there for the night before going over.

    2 And at the end of three days, the men in authority over the people went through the tents,

  • 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.

  • Judg 3:5
    72%

    5 Now the children of Israel were living among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:

  • Josh 6:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15 Then on the seventh day they got up early, at the dawn of the day, and went round the town in the same way, but that day they went round it seven times.

    16 And the seventh time, at the sound of the priests' horns, Joshua said to the people, Now give a loud cry; for the Lord has given you the town.

  • Josh 2:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22 And they went into the hill-country and were there three days, till the men who had gone after them had come back; and those who went after them were searching for them everywhere without coming across them.

    23 Then the two men came down from the hill-country and went over and came back to Joshua, the son of Nun; and they gave him a complete account of what had taken place.

  • Josh 3:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    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.

  • Josh 10:20
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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,

  • Josh 5:8
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    8 So when all the nation had undergone circumcision, they kept in their tents till they were well again.

  • Josh 8:9
    68%

    9 So Joshua sent them out: and they took up a secret position between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua kept with the people that night.

  • Josh 9:24
    68%

    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.

  • Josh 5:10
    67%

    10 So the children of Israel put up their tents in Gilgal; and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, in the lowlands of Jericho.

  • Josh 23:1
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    1 Now after a long time, when the Lord had given Israel rest from wars on every side, and Joshua was old and full of years,

  • Josh 9:26
    67%

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

  • Josh 2:2
    67%

    2 And it was said to the king of Jericho, See, some men have come here tonight from the children of Israel with the purpose of searching out the land.

  • Josh 6:11
    67%

    11 So he made the ark of the Lord go all round the town once: then they went back to the tents for the night.

  • Josh 11:7
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    7 So Joshua and all the men of war with him came against them suddenly at the waters of Merom, and made an attack on them.

  • Josh 24:25
    67%

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

  • Gen 10:16
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    16 And the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite,