Joshua 9:15

Joshua made peace with them and made a treaty with them to spare their lives, and the leaders of the community swore an oath to them.

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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

14So the Israelites tried some of their provisions, never asking the Lord for advice.

16Three days after they had made the treaty, they heard that the men were neighbours, living in the same country!

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Cross References

Joshua 2:12Now then, since I have dealt kindly with you, swear to me by the Lord that you will deal kindly with my family, and give me a sure sign of it.

Joshua 11:19Not a single town would make peace with the Israelites, except the Hivites who inhabited Gibeon. All the rest had to be captured by fighting.

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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