Joshua 9:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 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.
  • Judg 2:2 : 2 And you shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars: but you have not obeyed my voice: why have you done this?
  • Gen 10:17 : 17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
  • Gen 34:2 : 2 And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
  • Exod 3:8 : 8 And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good land and a large, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
  • Exod 23:31-33 : 31 And I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the river; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. 32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.
  • Exod 34:12 : 12 Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst.
  • Num 33:52 : 52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their carved images, and destroy all their molten images, and thoroughly demolish all their high places:
  • Deut 7:2-3 : 2 And when the LORD your God shall deliver them before you; you shall strike them, and utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them: 3 Neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take for your son.
  • Deut 20:16 : 16 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes:
  • Josh 9:1 : 1 And it happened, when all the kings on this side of the Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and along all the coasts of the great sea opposite Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it;

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  • Josh 9:6
    86%

    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.

  • Josh 9:8-9
    2 verses
    80%

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

    9And they said to him, From a very far country your servants have come because of the name of the LORD your God: for we have heard of His fame, and all that He did in Egypt,

  • Josh 9:11
    77%

    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 9:15-16
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    77%

    15And Joshua made peace with them, and made a treaty with them, to let them live: and the leaders of the congregation swore to them.

    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 9:22
    77%

    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?

  • Judg 3:4-5
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    74%

    4And they were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the commandments of the LORD, which He commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

    5And the children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:

  • Josh 7:7-9
    3 verses
    71%

    7And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, why have you at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of Jordan!

    8O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turns their backs before their enemies?

    9For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and surround us, and cut off our name from the earth: and what will you do for your great name?

  • Josh 3:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Gen 34:22-23
    2 verses
    70%

    22Only in this will the men consent to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised.

    23Will not their livestock and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us.

  • Josh 11:19
    70%

    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 9:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

  • Josh 9:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

  • Josh 9:1-3
    3 verses
    70%

    1And it happened, when all the kings on this side of the Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and along all the coasts of the great sea opposite Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it;

    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,

  • Gen 26:28
    70%

    28And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with you: and we said, Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you;

  • Josh 2:17
    69%

    17And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this your oath which you have made us swear.

  • Josh 2:9
    69%

    9And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that your terror has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.

  • Josh 22:15
    69%

    15And they came to the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and spoke with them, saying,

  • Josh 2:14
    69%

    14And 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.

  • Josh 10:1
    69%

    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,

  • Judg 21:7
    68%

    7What shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them our daughters as wives?

  • 1 Sam 11:1
    68%

    1Then Nahash the Ammonite came up and encamped against Jabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you."

  • Josh 10:4
    68%

    4Come up to me and help me, so that we may attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.

  • Exod 34:12
    68%

    12Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst.

  • Josh 22:24
    68%

    24And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, What have you to do with the LORD God of Israel?

  • Deut 7:1
    68%

    1When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land where you are going to possess it, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you;

  • 1 Sam 14:9
    68%

    9If they say to us, 'Wait until we come to you,' then we will stand still in our place and not go up to them.

  • Gen 34:10
    68%

    10And you shall dwell with us, and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade therein, and acquire possessions there.

  • 2 Sam 21:5
    68%

    5And they answered the king, The man who consumed us and plotted against us to destroy us from remaining in any territory of Israel,

  • Josh 1:12
    68%

    12And to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, Joshua spoke, saying,

  • Josh 5:13
    68%

    13And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there stood a man opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand; and Joshua went to him and said to him, Are you for us or for our adversaries?

  • Exod 1:10
    68%

    10Come, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it happen, that when any war breaks out, they join also with our enemies, and fight against us, and so go up out of the land.

  • Gen 34:16
    68%

    16Then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

  • Deut 1:22
    67%

    22And every one of you came near to me, and said, Let us send men before us, and they shall search out the land for us, and bring us back word of the way we must go up and of the cities we will come to.

  • Josh 10:6
    67%

    6And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, saying, Do not let your hand be slack from your servants; come up to us quickly, and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the mountains have gathered together against us.