Joshua 9:20 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

5 And now we are in thy hand: deal with us as it seemeth good and right unto thee.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

This we will do to them: we will let them live, lest wrath be upon us because of the oath which we swore to them.

American Standard Version (1901)

This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.

Common English Bible

This is what we’ll do with them. We’ll let them live so that wrath won’t come down on us because of the solemn pledge that we made to them.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

But we shall do this to them: Certainly, let them be preserved so that they may live, lest the wrath of the Lord be stirred up against us, since we would have sworn falsely.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But this we will do to them: Let their lives be saved, lest the wrath of the Lord be stirred up against us, if we should be forsworn.

Joshua 9:20 Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:13

8 And all the vessels of the house of the Lord, great and small, and the treasures of the temple and of the king, and of the princes he carried away to Babylon.

Proverbs 20:25

Every way of a man seemeth right to himself: but the Lord weigheth the hearts.

Malachi 3:5

3 Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord.

Romans 1:31

To them indeed, who according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:

1 Timothy 1:10

9 Having faith and a good conscience, which some rejecting have made shipwreck concerning the faith.

Joshua 9:19

4 They answered: It was told us thy servants, that the Lord thy God had promised his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants thereof. Therefore we feared exceedingly and provided for our lives. compelled by the dread we had of you and we took this counsel.

Joshua 9:21

6 So Josue did as he had said, and delivered them from the hand of the children of Israel, that they should not be slain.