Joshua 9:15

So Joshua made peace with them, and made an agreement with them that they were not to be put to death: and the chiefs of the people took an oath to them.

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In The King James Version

And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.

In Context

14And the men took some of their food, without requesting directions from the Lord.

16Now three days after, when they had made this agreement with them, they had word that these men were their neighbours, living near them.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:32Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

Joshua 2:12So now, will you give me your oath by the Lord, that, because I have been kind to you, you will be kind to my father's house,

Joshua 11:19Not one town made peace with the children of Israel, but only the Hivites of Gibeon: they took them all in war.

Jeremiah 18:7Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on 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 →

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