Joshua 9:7

But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you dwell near us. How can we make a treaty with you?”

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?

In Context

6They went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land; please make a treaty with us.”

8“We are your servants,” they said to Joshua. Then Joshua asked them, “Who are you and where have you come from?”

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Cross References

Genesis 34:2When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.

Exodus 23:22But if you will listen carefully to his voice and do everything I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

Exodus 23:32You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.

Numbers 33:52you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.

Deuteronomy 20:16However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.

Joshua 11:19No city made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites living in Gibeon; all others were taken in battle.

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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