Joshua 9:15

So Ioshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, that he would suffer them to liue: also the Princes of the Congregation sware vnto them.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 men accepted their tale concerning their vittailes, and counselled not with the mouth of the Lord.

16But at the end of three dayes, after they had made a league with them, they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:32Thou shalt make no couenant with them, nor with their gods:

Joshua 2:12Now therefore, I pray you, sweare vnto me by the Lord; that as I haue shewed you mercie, ye will also shewe mercie vnto my fathers house, and giue me a true token,

Joshua 11:19Neither was there any citie that made peace with the children of Israel, saue those Hiuites that inhabited Gibeon: all other they tooke by battell.

Jeremiah 18:7I will speake suddenly against a nation or against a kingdome to plucke it vp, and to roote it out and to destroy it.

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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