Joshua 9:15

World English Bible (2000)

Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.

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  • 2 Sam 21:2 : 2 The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them: and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of 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. They took all in battle.
  • Jer 18:7-8 : 7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it; 8 if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent 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 draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. 11 It shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.
  • Josh 2:12-19 : 12 Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a true token; 13 and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death." 14 The men said to her, "Our life for yours, if you don't talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives 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 on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall. 16 She said to them, "Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way." 17 The men said to her, "We will be guiltless of this your oath which you have made us to swear. 18 Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which you did let us down by. You shall gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father's household. 19 It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.
  • Josh 6:22-25 : 22 Joshua 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 The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all her relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel. 24 They burnt the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron into the treasury of Yahweh's house. 25 But Rahab the prostitute, her father's household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lived in the midst of Israel 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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    16It happened at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.

  • Josh 9:18-22
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    18The children of Israel didn't strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.

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

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

    21The princes said to them, "Let them live, so they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them."

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

  • Josh 9:6-8
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    6They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, "We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us."

    7The men of Israel said to the Hivites, "What if you live among us. How could we make a covenant with you?"

    8They said to Joshua, "We are your servants." Joshua said to them, "Who are you? Where do you come from?"

  • Josh 9:11
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    11Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, 'Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, "We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us."'

  • Josh 11:18-19
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    74%

    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. They took all in battle.

  • Josh 9:24-27
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    24They answered Joshua, and said, "Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh 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.

    25Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do."

    26He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn't kill them.

    27That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place which he should choose.

  • Josh 24:25
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    25So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for 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.

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

  • Josh 4:15
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    15Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

  • Josh 10:1
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    1Now it happened when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; 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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    12Joshua spoke to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, 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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    14They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

  • Josh 9:14
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    14The men sampled their provisions, and didn't ask counsel from the mouth of Yahweh.

  • 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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    25Joshua said to them, "Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for Yahweh will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight."

  • 1 Kgs 22:44
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    44Jehoshaphat 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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    9Keep therefore 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 Yahweh has given your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they have also possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.'"

    16They answered Joshua, saying, "All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.

  • Josh 10:20
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    20It happened, when Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

  • Josh 3:9-10
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    68%

    9Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God."

    10Joshua said, "Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.