Joshua 9:15
And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them to let them live, and the rulers of the congregation swore to them.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
14And the men took of their provision, and did not ask counsel at the mouth of LORD.
Cross References
Exodus 23:32Thou shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
Joshua 2:12Now therefore, I pray you, swear to me by LORD, since I have dealt kindly with you, that ye also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a TRUE token,
Joshua 11:19There was not a city that made peace with the sons of Israel, except the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took all in battle.
Jeremiah 18:7At that instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it,
Matthew Henry on Joshua 9:4-15
The Artifice of the Gibeonites. ( b. c. 1450.) 3 And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai, 4 They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up; 5 And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy. 6 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel,… Read the whole commentary →