Joshua 9:15
And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the princes of the assembly swore unto them.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
14And the men took of their victuals, but they did not inquire at the mouth of Jehovah.
Cross References
Exodus 23:32Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
Joshua 2:12And now, I pray you, swear to me by Jehovah, since I have dealt kindly with you, that ye will also deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a certain sign,
Joshua 11:19There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites who dwelt at Gibeon; they took all in battle.
Jeremiah 18:7At the moment that I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy,
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 →