Joshua 9:15
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.
Joshua 9:15 in other translations
| BSB | And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them. |
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| WEB | Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them. |
| ASV | And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them. |
| YLT | and Joshua maketh with them peace, and maketh with them a covenant, to keep them alive; and swear to them do the princes of the company. |
| DARBY | And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the princes of the assembly swore unto them. |
| BBE | So Joshua made peace with them, and made an agreement with them that they were not to be put to death: and the chiefs of the people took an oath to them. |
| Webster | And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation swore to them. |
What does Joshua 9:15 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joshua 9:3-15
Jos 9:3-15. The Gibeonites Obtain a League by Craft. 3-15. when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard--This town, as its name imports, was situated on a rocky eminence, about six miles northwest from Jerusalem, where the modern village of El Jib now stands. It was the capital of the Hivites, and a large important city (Jos 10:2). It seems to have formed, in union with a few other towns in the neighborhood, a free…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Joshua 9:14-21
The Israelites, having examined the provisions of the Gibeonites, hastily concluded that they confirmed their account. We make more haste than good speed, when we stay not to take God with us, and do not consult him by the word and prayer. The fraud was soon found out. A lying tongue is but for a moment. Had the oath been in itself unlawful, it would not have been binding; for no obligation can render it our duty to…
Joshua 9:15 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Joshua 9:15
- 2 Samuel 21:2
And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
- Joshua 11:19
There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle.
- Deuteronomy 20:10-11
When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
- Joshua 6:22-25
But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot’s house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her. And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel. And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord. And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father’s household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
- Jeremiah 18:7-8
At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
- Exodus 23:32
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
- Joshua 2:12-19
Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the Lord, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father’s house, and give me a true token: And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death. And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the Lord hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee. Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall. …
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Context
- Joshua 9:14
And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the Lord.
- Joshua 9:15
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.
- Joshua 9:16
And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.
Joshua 9:15 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y Josué hizo paz con ellos, y concertó con ellos que les dejaría la vida: también los príncipes de la congregación les juraron. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Josué fit la paix avec eux, et traita alliance avec eux, pour les laisser vivre; et les princes de l’assemblée s’obligèrent envers eux par serment. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und Josua machte Frieden mit ihnen und machte mit ihnen einen Bund, sie am Leben zu lassen; und die Fürsten der Gemeinde schwuren ihnen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Fecitque Josue cum eis pacem, et inito fœdere pollicitus est quod non occiderentur: principes quoque multitudinis juraverunt eis. |