Joshua 9:15

New Century Version

So Joshua agreed to make peace with the Gibeonites and to let them live. And the leaders of the Israelites swore an oath to keep the agreement.

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:2

(Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites; they were a group of Amorites who were left alive. The Israelites had promised not to hurt the Gibeonites, but Saul had tried to kill them, because he was eager to help the people of Israel and Judah.) King David called the Gibeonites together and spoke to them.

Exodus 23:32

You must not make an agreement with those people or with their gods.

Joshua 10:1

At this time Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had defeated Ai and completely destroyed it, as he had also done to Jericho and its king. The king also learned that the Gibeonites had made a peace agreement with Israel and that they lived nearby.

Joshua 10:4

“Come with me and help me attack Gibeon, which has made a peace agreement with Joshua and the Israelites.”

Joshua 11:19

The people of only one city in all the land had made a peace agreement with Israel—the Hivites living in Gibeon. All the other cities were defeated in war.

Joshua 9:16

Three days after they had made the agreement, the Israelites learned that the Gibeonites lived nearby.