Joshua 9:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ And Joshua made peace with them, guaranteeing their lives by a treaty, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ Joshua made peace with them, covenanting with them to let them live, and the assembly's leaders swore to them.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Joshua made peace with them. He made a treaty with them to protect their lives. The leaders of the community made a solemn pledge to them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ And Joshua made peace with them, and entering into a pact, he promised that they would not be put to death. The leaders of the multitude also swore to them.

Joshua 9:15 Cross References

2 Samuel 21:2

So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not of the people of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites; although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had tried to wipe them out in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)

Joshua 11:19

There was not a town that made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon; all were taken in battle.

Exodus 23:32

You shall make no covenant with them and their gods.

Joshua 9:16

But when three days had passed after they had made a treaty with them, they heard that they were their neighbors and were living among them.

Joshua 10:1

When King Adoni-zedek of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai and had utterly destroyed it, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,

Joshua 10:4

“Come up and help me, and let us attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and with the Israelites.”