Joshua 9:7
And the children of Israel said to the Chorrhaean, Peradventure you dwell among us; and how should I make a covenant with you?
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Genesis 34:2And Sychem the son of Emmor the + 34:2 Alex. the chorrhæan. Evite, the ruler of the land, saw her, and took her and lay with her, and humbled her.
Exodus 23:22If you⌃ will indeed hear my voice, and if you will do all the things I shall charge you with, and keep my covenant, you⌃ shall be to me a peculiar people above all nations, for the whole earth is mine; and you⌃ shall be to me a royal priesthood, and a holy nation: these words shall you⌃ speak to the children of Israel, If you⌃ shall indeed hear my voice, and do all the things I shall tell you, I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.
Exodus 23:32You shall make no covenant with them and their gods.
Numbers 33:52And you⌃ shall destroy all that dwell in the land before your face, and you⌃ shall abolish their high places, and all their molten images you⌃ shall destroy, and you⌃ shall demolish all their pillars.
Deuteronomy 20:16Of these you⌃ shall not take any thing alive;
Joshua 11:19And there was no city which Israel took not; they took all in war.
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 →