Josué 9:18

Louis Segond

Ils ne les frappèrent point, parce que les chefs de l'assemblée leur avaient juré par l'Eternel, le Dieu d'Israël, de leur laisser la vie. Mais toute l'assemblée murmura contre les chefs.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et les enfants d'Israël ne les frappèrent point, parce que les chefs de l'assemblée leur en avaient fait serment par l'Éternel, le Dieu d'Israël; mais toute l'assemblée murmura contre les chefs.

Darby's French Translation
Et les fils d'Israël ne les frappèrent point, car les princes de l'assemblée s'étaient obligés envers eux par serment au nom de l'Éternel, le Dieu d'Israël; et toute l'assemblée murmura contre les princes.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et les enfants d'Israël ne les frappèrent point, parce que les principaux de l'assemblée leur avaient fait serment par l'Eternel le Dieu d'Israël; mais toute l'assemblée murmura contre les principaux.

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

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.