Joshua 9:7 - Easy To Read Version

⁷ The men of Israel said to these Hivite men, “Maybe you are trying to trick us. Maybe you live near us. We can’t make a peace agreement with you until we know where you are from.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, Perhaps you live among us; how then can we make a covenant with you?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?

Common English Bible

⁷ Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live among us. How then could we make a treaty with you?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ "Perhaps instead, you live in the land which ought to be ours by lot, and we would be unable to form a pact with you."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ Perhaps you dwell in the land which falls to our lot: if so, we can make no league with you.

Joshua 9:7 Cross References

Genesis 10:17

the Hivite people, the Arkite people, the Sinite people,

Genesis 34:2

Hamor was the king of that land. His son Shechem saw Dinah. Shechem kidnapped her and raped her.

2 Samuel 24:7

They went to the fort of Tyre. They went to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites. Then they went south to Beersheba in the southern part of Judah.

Exodus 23:22

You must obey everything he says. You must do everything that I tell you. If you do this, then I will be with you. I will be against all of your enemies. And I will be an enemy to every person who is against you.”

Exodus 3:8

Now I will go down and save my people from the Egyptians. I will take them from that land. And I will lead them to a good land where they can be free from troubles. [17] It is a land filled with many good things. [18] Many different people live in that land: the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Exodus 34:12

Be careful! Don’t make any agreement with the people who live in the land where you are going. If you make an agreement with those people, then it will bring you trouble.

Numbers 33:52

You will take the land from the people you find there. You must destroy all of their carved statues and idols. You must destroy all of their high places. [378]

Deuteronomy 20:16

“But when you take cities in the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you must kill everyone.

Joshua 11:19

Only one city in all the land made a peace agreement with Israel. That was the Hivite city of Gibeon. All the other cities were defeated in war.

Joshua 9:1

All the kings west of the Jordan River heard about these things. These were the kings of the Hittite people, the Amorite people, the Canaanite people, the Perizzite people, the Hivite people, and the Jebusite people. They lived in the hill country and in the plains. They also lived along the sea coast of the Mediterranean Sea as far as Lebanon.

Judges 2:2

But in return, you must never make any agreement with the people living in that land. You must destroy their altars. [14] I told you that. But you didn’t obey me!

Judges 3:3

the five rulers of the Philistine people, all of the Canaanite people, the people of Sidon, and the Hivite people that lived in the Lebanon mountains from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo Hamath.