Joshua 9:16 - Good News Translation (US Version)

¹⁶ Three days after the treaty had been made, the Israelites learned that these people did indeed live nearby.

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 12:19

A lie has a short life, but truth lives on forever.

Joshua 9:15

Joshua made a treaty of friendship with the people of Gibeon and allowed them to live. The leaders of the community of Israel gave their solemn promise to keep the treaty.

Joshua 9:17

So the people of Israel started out and three days later arrived at the cities where these people lived: Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

Joshua 9:22

Joshua ordered the people of Gibeon to be brought to him, and he asked them, “Why did you deceive us and tell us that you were from far away, when you live right here?

Joshua 9:9

Then they told him this story: “We have come from a very distant land, sir, because we have heard of the Lord your God. We have heard about everything that he did in Egypt