Joshua 9:7

‘The Israelites said to these Hivites, “Perhaps you live in our country, so why should we make a treaty with you?”

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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 at the camp in Gilgal and said to him and to the Israelites, “We have come from a far country. Please make a treaty with us.”

8“We are at your service,” they said to Joshua. “But who are you,” Joshua asked, “and where do you come from?”

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Cross References

Genesis 34:2When Sheeham the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her and violated her,

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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