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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Joshua 9:15

And Ioshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them liue: and the princes of the Congregation sware vnto them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Alliances;   Confidence;   Contracts;   Craftiness;   Deception;   Diplomacy;   Government;   Joshua;   Kirjath-Jearim;   Magnanimity;   Oath;   Servant;   Treaty;   Thompson Chain Reference - Oaths;   Princes;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Amorites, the;   Covenants;   Gibeonites;   Oaths;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gibeon;   Joshua the son of nun;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Covenant;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - All-Sufficiency of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Alliance;   Covenant;   Gibeon;   Slave;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Adriel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joshua, the Book of;   Oaths;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gibeon;   Israel;   Joshua;   Stranger;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Alliance;   Covenant;   Gibeon ;   Prince, Princess;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Covenant;   Elder;   Gibeon;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Nethinim;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Alliances;   Covenant;   Gib'eon;   Law of Moses;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Elders;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Covenant, in the Old Testament;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Alliances;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Gibeon and Gibeonites;   Hivites;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for January 19;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So Joshua established peace with them and made a treaty to let them live, and the leaders of the community swore an oath to them.
Hebrew Names Version
Yehoshua made shalom with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation swore to them.
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.
Lexham English Bible
And Joshua made peace with them, and he made a covenant with them to allow them to live happily, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.
English Standard Version
And Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore to them.
New Century Version
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.
New English Translation
Joshua made a peace treaty with them and agreed to let them live. The leaders of the community sealed it with an oath.
Amplified Bible
Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant (treaty) with them, to let them live; and the leaders of the congregation [of Israel] swore an oath to them.
New American Standard Bible
And Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So Ioshua made peace with them, & made a league with them, that he would suffer them to liue: also the Princes of the Congregation sware vnto them.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Joshua made peace with them and cut a covenant with them, to let them live; and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.
Contemporary English Version
So Joshua made a peace treaty with the messengers and promised that Israel would not kill their people. Israel's leaders swore that Israel would keep this promise.
Complete Jewish Bible
so Y'hoshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them to spare their lives, and the leading officials of the community swore to them.
Darby Translation
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
Joshua agreed to make peace with them. He agreed to let them live. The leaders of Israel agreed with this promise of Joshua.
George Lamsa Translation
And Joshua made peace with them, and he made a treaty with them to let them live; and the princes of the congregation swore to them.
Good News Translation
Joshua made a treaty of friendship with the people of Gibeon and allowed them to live. The leaders of the community of Israel gave their solemn promise to keep the treaty.
Literal Translation
And Joshua made peace with them, and cut a covenant with them, to keep them alive. And the leaders of the congregation swore to them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Iosua made peace with them, and set vp a couenaunt with them, that they shulde be saued alyue, and the rulers of the congregacion sware vnto them.
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.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Iosuah made peace which the, and made a couenaunt with them, that they shulde be suffered to liue: And the princes of the congregation sware vnto them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the princes of the congregation swore unto them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Joshua made peace with them, and they made a covenant with them to preserve them; and the princes of the congregation sware to them.
English Revised 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.
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Josue made pees with hem. And whanne the boond of pees was maad, he bihiyte, that thei schulden not be slayn; and the princes of the multitude sworen to hem.
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.
Update Bible Version
And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation swore to them.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
World English Bible
Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation swore to them.
New King James Version
So Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them to let them live; and the rulers of the congregation swore to them.
New Living Translation
Then Joshua made a peace treaty with them and guaranteed their safety, and the leaders of the community ratified their agreement with a binding oath.
New Life Bible
Joshua made peace with them and made an agreement with them, to let them live. And the leaders of the people made a promise to them.
New Revised Standard
And Joshua made peace with them, guaranteeing their lives by a treaty; and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Joshua made peace with them, and solemnised with them a covenant to let them live, - and the princes of the assembly, entered into an oath with them.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Josue made peace with them, and entering into a league, promised that they should not be slain: the princes also of the multitude swore to them.
Revised Standard Version
And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the leaders of the congregation swore to them.
THE MESSAGE
So Joshua made peace with them and formalized it with a covenant to guarantee their lives. The leaders of the congregation swore to it.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.

Contextual Overview

15 And Ioshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them liue: and the princes of the Congregation sware vnto them. 16 And it came to passe at the end of three dayes, 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 iourneyed, and came vnto their cities on the third day: now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kiriath iearim. 18 And the children of Israel smote them not, because the Princes of the Congregation had sworne vnto them by the Lord God of Israel: And all the Congregation murmured against the Princes. 19 But all the Princes said vnto all the Congregation, We haue sworne vnto them by the Lord God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them. 20 This we will doe to them; wee will euen let them liue, lest wrath be vpon vs, because of the oath which wee sware vnto them. 21 And the Princes said vnto them, Let them liue, (but let them bee hewers of wood, and drawers of water, vnto all the Congregation,) as the Princes had promised them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

made peace: Joshua 2:12-19, Joshua 6:22-25, Joshua 11:19, Deuteronomy 20:10, Deuteronomy 20:11, 2 Samuel 21:2, Jeremiah 18:7, Jeremiah 18:8

and the: 2 Samuel 21:2

Reciprocal: Leviticus 5:4 - to do evil Joshua 9:21 - as the princes Joshua 10:1 - how the Joshua 10:4 - we may Joshua 10:6 - from thy 1 Samuel 30:15 - Swear 2 Chronicles 36:13 - who had Esther 9:27 - and upon their seed Hebrews 6:16 - an oath

Cross-References

Genesis 9:8
And God spake vnto Noah, and to his sonnes with him, saying;
Genesis 9:10
And with euery liuing creature that is with you, of the fowle, of the cattell, and of euery beast of the earth with you, from all that goe out of the Arke, to euery beast of the earth.
Exodus 28:12
And thou shalt put the two stones vpon the shoulders of the Ephod, for stones of memoriall vnto the children of Israel. And Aaron shall beare their names before the Lord, vpon his two shoulders for a memoriall.
Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithfull God, which keepeth Couenant and Mercy with them that loue him, and keepe his Commandements, to a thousand generations;
1 Kings 8:23
And hee said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heauen aboue, or on earth beneath, who keepest couenant and mercy with thy seruants, that walke before thee with all their heart:
Nehemiah 9:32
Now therefore, our God, the great, the mightie, and the terrible God, who keepest couenant and mercie: let not all the trouble seeme little before thee, that hath come vpon vs, on our Kings, on our Princes, & on our Priests, and on our Prophets, & on our fathers, & on al thy people, since the time of the Kings of Assyria, vnto this day.
Psalms 106:45
And hee remembred for them his couenant: and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
Jeremiah 14:21
Do not abhorre vs, for thy Names sake, doe not disgrace the Throne of thy glorie: remember, breake not thy Couenant with vs.
Ezekiel 16:60
Neuerthelesse I will remember my couenant with thee in the dayes of thy youth, and I will establish vnto thee an euerlasting couenant.
Luke 1:72
That wee should be saued from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate vs, That hee would grant vnto vs, that wee beeing deliuered out of the hands of our enemies, might serue him without feare, In holinesse and righteousnesse before him, all the dayes of our life. And thou childe shalt bee called the Prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt goe before the face of the Lord to prepare his wayes. To giue knowledge of saluation vnto his people, by the remission of their sinnes, Through the tender mercy of our God, whereby the day-spring from on high hath visited vs, To giue light to them that sit in darknes, and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. And the childe grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts, till the day of his shewing vnto Israel.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Joshua made peace with them,.... Upon the report the princes made of having examined what they had said, and which they found to be true, particularly concerning their victuals:

and made a league with them, to let them live; and not destroy them as he did the Canaanites, and was ordered to do; they being supposed not to belong to them by the representation of things they had made:

and the princes of the congregation sware unto them; that they would keep the league and covenant they had made with them inviolable; they ratified it by an oath, which was a sacred solemn thing.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 9:15. Joshua made peace with them — Joshua agreed to receive them into a friendly connection with the Israelites, and to respect their lives and properties; and the elders of Israel bound themselves to the observance of it, and confirmed it with an oath. As the same words are used here as in Joshua 9:6, we may suppose that the covenant was made in the ordinary way, a sacrifice being offered on the occasion, and its blood poured out before the Lord. Genesis 15:10, &c.


 
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