约书亚记 9:18

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

以色列人沒有擊殺他們，因為會眾的首領曾經指著耶和華以色列的　神向他們起了誓，全體會眾就都向首領發怨言。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
因 为 会 众 的 首 领 已 经 指 着 耶 和 华 ─ 以 色 列 的 　 神 向 他 们 起 誓 ， 所 以 以 色 列 人 不 击 杀 他 们 ； 全 会 众 就 向 首 领 发 怨 言 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ So Joshua agreed to make peace with the Gibeonites and to let them live. And the leaders of the Israelites swore an oath to keep the agreement. ¹⁶ Three days after they had made the agreement, the Israelites learned that the Gibeonites lived nearby. ¹⁷ So the Israelites went to where they lived and on the third day came to their cities: Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim. ¹⁸ But the Israelites did not attack those cities, because they had made a promise to them before the Lord , the God of Israel. All the Israelites grumbled against the leaders. ¹⁹ But the leaders answered, "We have given our promise before the Lord , the God of Israel, so we cannot attack them now. ²⁰ This is what we must do. We must let them live. Otherwise, God's anger will be against us for breaking the oath we swore to them. ²¹ So let them live, but they will cut wood and carry water for our people." So the leaders kept their promise to them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

had sworn: 2 Samuel 21:7, Psalms 15:4, Ecclesiastes 5:2, Ecclesiastes 5:6, Ecclesiastes 9:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:39 - Peradventure Deuteronomy 7:2 - make no Joshua 2:12 - swear Joshua 6:22 - as ye sware unto her

Cross-References

Genesis 9:23
Then Shem and Japheth got a coat and, carrying it on both their shoulders, they walked backwards into the tent and covered their father. They turned their faces away so that they did not see their father's nakedness.

Genesis 9:25
he said, "May there be a curse on Canaan! May he be the lowest slave to his brothers."

Genesis 9:27
May God give more land to Japheth. May Japheth live in Shem's tents, and may Canaan be their slave."

Genesis 10:1
This is the family history of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah. After the flood these three men had sons.

Genesis 10:6
The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

1 Chronicles 1:4
The sons of Noah were Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the children of Israel smote them not,.... The inhabitants of the four cities, when they came to them, though they found it to be a true report that was brought them of their being neighbours, and that they were imposed upon by them:

because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel; by the Word of the Lord God of Israel, as the Targum, and therefore they restrained the people from smiting and plundering them; for it was not the oath of the princes the people so much regarded, or had such an influence on them as to abstain from seizing on them, but the princes, by reason of their oath, would not suffer them to touch them:

and all the congregation murmured against the princes; not only for taking such an oath, but chiefly because they restrained them from smiting the Gibeonites, and taking their substance for a prey; their eager desire of revenge, and of seizing their goods, and inhabiting their cities, raised a murmur in them against the princes. This is to be understood not of the whole body of the people at Gilgal, but of all that party that was sent to Gibeon, and of the princes that went with them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 9:18. All the congregation murmured — Merely because they were deprived of the spoils of the Gibeonites. They had now got under the full influence of a predatory spirit; God saw their proneness to this, and therefore, at particular times, totally interdicted the spoils of conquered cities, as in the case of Jericho.