Joshua 9:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Joshua made peace with them, and made a treaty with them, to let them live: and the leaders of the congregation swore to them.

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  • 2 Sam 21:2 : 2 So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but a remnant of the Amorites; and the Israelites had sworn to them. Yet Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for Israel and Judah.)
  • Josh 11:19 : 19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon: all others they took in battle.
  • Jer 18:7-8 : 7 At any moment I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; 8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turns from their evil, I will relent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
  • Exod 23:32 : 32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
  • Deut 20:10-11 : 10 When you come near a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. 11 And it shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people that are found within shall be tributaries to you, and they shall serve you.
  • Josh 2:12-19 : 12 Now therefore, I pray, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shown you kindness, that you will also show kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token: 13 And that you will save my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death. 14 And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if you do not reveal this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD has given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you. 15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall. 16 And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers return: and afterward you may go your way. 17 And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this your oath which you have made us swear. 18 Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which you let us down by: and you shall bring your father, and your mother, and your brothers, and all your father's household, home unto you. 19 And it shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whoever shall be with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.
  • Josh 6:22-25 : 22 But Joshua had said to the two men who had spied out the land, Go into the prostitute's house, and bring out from there the woman, and all that she has, as you swore to her. 23 And the young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brothers, and all that she had; and they brought out all her relatives, and left them outside the camp of Israel. 24 And they burned the city with fire, and all that was in it: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD. 25 And Joshua saved Rahab the prostitute alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwells in Israel even to this day; because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

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  • Josh 9:16
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    16And it happened at the end of three days after they had made a treaty with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.

  • Josh 9:18-22
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    18And the children of Israel did not strike them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation complained against the leaders.

    19But all the leaders said to all the congregation, We have sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.

    20This we will do to them; we will let them live, lest wrath be upon us because of the oath we swore to them.

    21And the leaders said to them, Let them live; but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for all the congregation, as the leaders had promised them.

    22And Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, Why have you deceived us, saying, We are very far from you; when you dwell among us?

  • Josh 9:6-8
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    6And they went to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, We have come from a far country: now therefore make a treaty with us.

    7And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, Perhaps you dwell among us; how then shall we make a treaty with you?

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

  • Josh 9:11
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    11Therefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take provisions with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, We are your servants: therefore now make a treaty with us.

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

    19There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon: all others they took in battle.

  • Josh 9:24-27
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    24And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told to your servants how the LORD your God commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

    25And now, see, we are in your hand: do to us as it seems good and right to you to do.

    26And so he did to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they did not kill them.

    27And Joshua made them that day woodcutters and water carriers for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even to this day, in the place which He would choose.

  • Josh 24:25
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    25So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

  • Josh 9:2-3
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    2That they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.

    3And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

  • Josh 4:15
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    15And the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,

  • Josh 10:1
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    1Now it happened, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai and utterly destroyed it—just as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king—and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,

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

  • Josh 22:6
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    6So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents.

  • 2 Chr 15:14
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    14And they swore to the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

  • Josh 9:14
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    14And the men took some of their provisions, and did not ask counsel from the mouth of the LORD.

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

  • Josh 10:25
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    25Then Joshua said to them, Do not be afraid, nor be dismayed; be strong and of good courage, for the LORD will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight.

  • 1 Kgs 22:44
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    44And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

  • Josh 1:10
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    10Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,

  • Deut 29:9
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    9Therefore, keep the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

  • Josh 1:15-16
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    15until the LORD has given your brethren rest, as he has given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD's servant gave you on this side of the Jordan toward the sunrise.

    16And they answered Joshua, saying, All that you command us we will do, and wherever you send us, we will go.

  • Josh 10:20
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    20And it happened, when Joshua and the children of Israel finished slaying them with a very great slaughter, until they were consumed, that the rest who remained entered into fortified cities.

  • Josh 3:9-10
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    9And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come here and hear the words of the LORD your God.

    10And Joshua said, By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.