Joshua 9:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Then three days after they had made a covenant with [the strangers, the Israelites] heard that they were their neighbors and that they dwelt among them.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they dwelt among them.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Three days after the Israelites made a treaty with the Gibeonites, the Israelites heard that they were actually their neighbors and were living among them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Then, three days after the pact was formed, they heard that they lived in the vicinity, and that they would soon be among them.

Joshua 9:16 Cross References

Proverbs 12:19

Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.

Joshua 9:9

They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of the Lord your God, for we have heard a report of him, of all that he did in Egypt

Joshua 9:15

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

Joshua 9:17

So the Israelites set out and reached their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.

Joshua 9:22

Joshua summoned them and said to them, “Why did you deceive us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ while in fact you are living among us?