Joshua 9:15 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁵ So Joshua made peace with them and cut a covenant with them, to let them live, and the leaders of the community swore 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ And Josue made peace with them, and entering into a league promised that they should not be slain: the princes also of the multitude swore to them.

Joshua 9:15 Cross References

2 Samuel 21:2

So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not of Bnei-Yisrael but a remnant of the Amorites; however, Bnei-Yisrael had sworn a covenant with them. Yet Saul had tried to eradicate them in his zeal for Bnei-Yisrael and Judah.)

Exodus 23:32

Make no covenant with them or with their gods.

Joshua 10:1

Now it came to pass that Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it—just as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king—and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and remained among them.

Joshua 10:4

“Come up and help me! Let’s attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and Bnei-Yisrael.”

Joshua 11:19

There was not a city that made peace with Bnei-Yisrael except the Hivites who inhabited Gibeon. All the rest they took in battle.

Joshua 9:16

But it came about at the end of three days after they had cut a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and were living among them.