Joshua 9:15

And Joshua made peace with them, and entering into a pact, he promised that they would not be put to death. The leaders of the multitude also swore 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 so they accepted this, because of their provisions, and they did not consult the mouth of the Lord.

16Then, three days after the pact was formed, they heard that they lived in the vicinity, and that they would soon be among them.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:32You shall not enter into a pact with them, nor with their gods.

Joshua 2:12Now, therefore, swear to me by the Lord that in the same way that I have acted with mercy toward you, so also shall you act toward the house of my father. And may you give me a true sign

Joshua 11:19There was not a city that delivered itself to the sons of Israel, except the Hivites who were living at Gibeon. For he seized it all in warfare.

Jeremiah 18:7Suddenly, I will speak against a nation and against a kingdom, so that I may uproot, and destroy, and scatter 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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