Joshua 9:7 - Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

^7-8 The Israelites replied, “But maybe you really live near us. We can't make a peace treaty with you if you live nearby.” The Gibeonites said, “If you make a peace treaty with us, we will be your servants.” “Who are you?” Joshua asked. “Where do you come from?” They answered:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, Perhaps you live among us; how then can we make a covenant with you?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?

Common English Bible

⁷ Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live among us. How then could we make a treaty with you?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ "Perhaps instead, you live in the land which ought to be ours by lot, and we would be unable to form a pact with you."

Joshua 9:7 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 34:2

She was seen by Hamor's son Shechem, the leader of the Hivites, and he grabbed her and raped her.

2 Samuel 24:7

They came to the fortress of Tyre, then went through every town of the Hivites and the Canaanites. Finally, they went to Beersheba in the Southern Desert of Judah.

Exodus 23:22

If you faithfully obey him, I will be a fierce enemy of your enemies.

Exodus 3:8

and I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians. I will bring my people out of Egypt into a country where there is a lot of good land, rich with milk and honey. I will give them the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.

Exodus 34:12

Don't make treaties with any of those people. If you do, it will be like falling into a trap.

Numbers 33:52

you must force out the people living there. Destroy their idols and tear down their altars.

Deuteronomy 20:16

Whenever you capture towns in the land the Lord your God is giving you, be sure to kill all the people and animals.

Joshua 11:19

The Lord had told Moses that he wanted the towns in this region destroyed and their people killed without mercy. That's why the Lord made the people in the towns stubborn and determined to fight Israel. The only town that signed a peace treaty with Israel was the Hivite town of Gibeon. The Israelite army captured the rest of the towns in battle.

Joshua 9:1

The kings west of the Jordan River heard about Joshua's victories, so they got together and decided to attack Joshua and Israel. These kings were from the hill country and from the foothills to the west, as well as from the Mediterranean seacoast as far north as the Lebanon Mountains. Some of them were Hittites, others were Amorites or Canaanites, and still others were Perizzites, Hivites, or Jebusites.

Judges 2:2

and you promised not to make any peace treaties with the other nations that live in the land. Besides that, you agreed to tear down the altars where they sacrifice to their idols. Why haven't you kept your promise?

Judges 3:3

the Philistines and their five rulers, as well as the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites that lived in the Lebanon Mountains from Mount Baal-Hermon to Hamath Pass.