Joshua 9:15

New American Bible - revised edition

So Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant to let them live, which the leaders of the community sealed with an oath. Gibeonites Made Vassals.

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:2

So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but survivors of the Amorites; and although the Israelites had given them their oath, Saul had sought to kill them off in his zeal for the Israelites and for Judah.)

Exodus 23:32

You shall not make a covenant with them or their gods.

Joshua 10:1

Now when Adonizedek, king of Jerusalem, heard that Joshua had captured Ai and put it under the ban, and had done to that city and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made their peace with Israel, remaining among them,

Joshua 10:4

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

Joshua 11:19

With the exception of the Hivites who lived in Gibeon, no city made peace with the Israelites; all were taken in battle.

Joshua 9:16

Three days after the covenant was made, the Israelites heard that these people were from nearby, and would be living in Israel.