Joshua 9:15

And Joshua made peace with them, and they made a covenant with them to preserve them; and the princes of the congregation swore to them.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 chiefs took of their provision, and asked not counsel of the Lord.

16And it came to pass three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were near neighbors, and that they dwelt among them.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:32Thou shalt make no covenant with them and their gods.

Joshua 2:12And now swear to me by the Lord God; since I deal mercifully with you, so do ye also deal mercifully with the house of my father:

Joshua 11:19And there was no city which Israel took not; they took all in war.

Jeremiah 18:7If I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation, or upon a kingdom, to cut them off, and to destroy them;

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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