Joshua 9:7
The Israeli leaders said to those men from Gilead who were from the Hiv people-group, “ We do not know if you truly live far from us. If you live near us, we cannot [RHQ] make a peace agreement with you, because God has commanded us to get rid of the people that are living near us.”
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Genesis 34:2Shechem, one of the sons of Hamor, the ruler of that area who was descended from the Hiv people-group, saw her. He wanted her. So he grabbed her and forced her to have sex [EUP] with him.
Exodus 23:22But if you pay attention to what he says and if you do all that I tell you to do, I will fight strongly [DOU] against all of your enemies.
Exodus 23:32You must not make any agreement/treaty with those people or with their gods.
Numbers 33:52you must force all the people who live there to leave. Destroy all their carved statues and all their idols made of metal. Wreck all the places where they worship their idols.
Deuteronomy 20:16“But in the cities that are in the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you, you must kill all the people and all the animals [LIT].
Joshua 11:19There was only one group that made a peace agreement with the Israelis; they were the people of the Hiv people-group who lived in Gibeon. The Israelis captured all the other towns in battles.
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 →