Joshua 9:7

World English Bible (2000)

The men of Israel said to the Hivites, "What if you live among us. How could we make a covenant 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. They took all in battle.
  • Judg 2:2 : 2 and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.' But you have not listened to my voice: why have you done this?
  • Gen 10:17 : 17 the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,
  • Gen 34:2 : 2 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
  • Exod 3:8 : 8 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 and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
  • Exod 23:31-33 : 31 I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness 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 Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you:
  • Num 33:52 : 52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured [stones], and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:
  • Deut 7:2-3 : 2 and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall 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 shall you take his daughter for your son.
  • Deut 20:16 : 16 But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
  • Josh 9:1 : 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

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 9:6
    86%

    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."

  • Josh 9:8-9
    2 verses
    80%

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

    9They said to him, "Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,

  • 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 9:15-16
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    77%

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

    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 9:22
    77%

    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?

  • Judg 3:4-5
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    74%

    4They were [left], to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the commandments of Yahweh, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.

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

  • Josh 7:7-9
    3 verses
    71%

    7Joshua said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!

    8Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!

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

  • Josh 3:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Gen 34:22-23
    2 verses
    70%

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

    23Won't their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our 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. They took all in battle.

  • Josh 9:24-25
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    70%

    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."

  • Josh 9:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    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."

  • Josh 9:1-3
    3 verses
    70%

    1It 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

    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,

  • Gen 26:28
    70%

    28They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. 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%

    17The men said to her, "We will be guiltless of this your oath which you have made us to swear.

  • Josh 2:9
    69%

    9and she said to the men, "I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

  • Josh 22:15
    69%

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

  • Josh 2:14
    69%

    14The 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."

  • Josh 10:1
    69%

    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;

  • Judg 21:7
    68%

    7How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to 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%

    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."

  • Exod 34:12
    68%

    12Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you:

  • Josh 22:24
    68%

    24"If we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason, saying, 'In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, "What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?

  • Deut 7:1
    68%

    1When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you;

  • 1 Sam 14:9
    68%

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

  • Gen 34:10
    68%

    10You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."

  • 2 Sam 21:5
    68%

    5They said to the king, "The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

  • Josh 1:12
    68%

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

  • Josh 5:13
    68%

    13It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. 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 also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape 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%

    22You came near to me everyone of you, and said, "Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come."

  • Josh 10:6
    67%

    6The 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."