Joshua 9:16

World English Bible (2000)

It 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.

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  • Prov 12:19 : 19 Truth's lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.

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  • Josh 9:15
    83%

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

  • Josh 9:17-18
    2 verses
    83%

    17 The children of Israel traveled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

    18 The 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.

  • Josh 9:6-8
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    78%

    6 They 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."

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

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

  • Josh 9:1-4
    4 verses
    77%

    1 It happened, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it

    2 that they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.

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

    4 they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and wineskins, old and torn and bound up,

  • Josh 10:1-6
    6 verses
    76%

    1 Now 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;

    2 that they were very afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

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

    4 "Come up to me, and help me, and let us strike Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel."

    5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their armies, and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it.

    6 The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, "Don't abandon your servants! Come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country have gathered together against us."

  • Josh 9:20-22
    3 verses
    75%

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

    21 The 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."

    22 Joshua 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 9:11
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    11 Our 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 3:1-2
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    1 Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They lodged there before they passed over.

    2 It happened after three days, that the officers went through the midst of the camp;

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

    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.

  • Judg 3:5
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    5 The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:

  • Josh 6:15-16
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    15 It happened on the seventh day, that they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. Only on this day they marched around the city seven times.

    16 It happened at the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, "Shout, for Yahweh has given you the city!

  • Josh 2:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22 They went, and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but didn't find them.

    23 Then the two men returned, descended from the mountain, passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had happened to them.

  • Josh 3:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

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

    10 Joshua 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.

  • Josh 10:20
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    20 It 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 5:8
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    8 It happened, when they were done circumcising all the nation, that they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.

  • Josh 8:9
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    9 Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.

  • Josh 9:24
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    24 They 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.

  • Josh 5:10
    67%

    10 The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.

  • Josh 23:1
    67%

    1 It happened after many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,

  • Josh 9:26
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    26 He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn't kill them.

  • Josh 2:2
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    2 The king of Jericho was told, "Behold, men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land."

  • Josh 6:11
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    11 So he caused the ark of Yahweh to go around the city, going about it once. Then they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.

  • Josh 11:7
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    7 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell on them.

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

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