Joshua 9:7
“Perhaps instead, you live in the land which ought to be ours by lot, and we would be unable to form a pact with you.”
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Genesis 34:2And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the leader of that land, had seen her, he fell in love with her. And so he seized her and slept with her, overwhelming the virgin by force.
Exodus 23:22But if you listen to his voice and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will afflict those who afflict you.
Exodus 23:32You shall not enter into a pact with them, nor with their gods.
Numbers 33:52destroy all the inhabitants of that land. Break their monuments, and shatter their statues, and lay waste to every exalted thing,
Deuteronomy 20:16But among those cities which shall be given to you, you shall not permit anyone at all to live.
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.
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 →