KJV 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.
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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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.
WEB World English Bible
Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.
ASV American Standard Version
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 Young’s Literal Translation
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.
Surrounding context — Joshua 9
12 This our bread we took hot [for] our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:
13 And these bottles of wine, which we filled, [were] new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
14 And the men took of their victuals, and asked not [counsel] at the mouth of the LORD.
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.
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.
17 And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities [were] Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.
18 And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַיַּ֨עַשׂH6213 · a.sahto make: doלָהֶ֤םH9038 · hemthemיְהוֹשֻׁ֙עַ֙H3091 · ye.ho.shu.aJoshuaשָׁל֔וֹםH7965 · sha.lompeaceוַיִּכְרֹ֥תH3772 · ka.ratto cut: cutלָהֶ֛םH9038 · hemthemבְּרִ֖יתH1285 · be.ritcovenantלְחַיּוֹתָ֑םH2421 · cha.yahto liveוַיִּשָּׁבְע֣וּH7650 · sha.vato swearלָהֶ֔םH9038 · hemthemנְשִׂיאֵ֖יH5387 · na.sileaderהָעֵדָֽה׃H5712 · e.dahcongregation
Cross-references
2 Samuel 21:2And 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 11:19There 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 20:10-11When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.Joshua 6:22-25But 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.Exodus 23:32Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.Joshua 2:12-19Now 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: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];
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