Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
and Joshua maketh with them peace, and maketh with them a covenant, to keep them alive; and swear to them do the princes of the company.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
So Joshua established peace with them and made a treaty to let them live, and the leaders of the community swore an oath to them.
International Standard Version
They made a treaty with them, guaranteeing their lives with a covenant, and the leaders of the congregation confirmed it with an oath to them.
A Conservative Version
And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them to let them live, and the rulers of the congregation swore to them.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant (treaty) with them, to let them live; and the leaders of the congregation [of Israel] swore an oath to them.
Bible in Basic English
So Joshua made peace with them, and made an agreement with them that they were not to be put to death: and the chiefs of the people took an oath to them.
Darby Translation
And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the princes of the assembly swore unto them.
Julia Smith Translation
And Joshua will make peace to them, and will cut out to them a covenant to preserve them alive: and the chiefs of the assembly sware to them.
King James 2000
And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live: and the leaders of the congregation swore to them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And Joshua made peace with them, and {he made a covenant with them} to allow them to live happily, and the leaders of the congregation swore [an oath] to them.
Modern King James verseion
And Joshua made peace with them, and made a treaty with them, to let them live. And the rulers of the congregation swore to them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to save their lives: and the lords of the congregation sware unto them.
NET Bible
Joshua made a peace treaty with them and agreed to let them live. The leaders of the community sealed it with an oath.
New Heart English Bible
Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The leaders of the congregation swore to them.
The Emphasized Bible
And Joshua made peace with them, and solemnised with them a covenant to let them live, - and the princes of the assembly, entered into an oath with them.
Webster
And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation swore to them.
World English Bible
Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.
Themes
Alliances » Ratification of » By oaths
the Amorites » The gibeonites a tribe of, deceived israel into a league
Confidence » Betrayed » Instances of » Joshua, by the gibeonites
Contracts » Scriptures illustrative of the binding force of
Covenants » Designed for » Establishing peace
Craftiness » Instances of » Gibeonites, in deceiving joshua and the israelites into a treaty
Deception » Instances of » The gibeonites, in misrepresenting their habitat
Gibeonites » Israel » Made a league with
Joshua » Also called jehoshua, and jehoshuah, and oshea » Makes a treaty with the gibeonites
Kirjath-jearim » not killed » by Israelistes » put under » servitude
Oath » The israelites confirm the covenant with the hivites
Oaths » Instances of rash, &c » Joshua, &c
Interlinear
Shalowm
Karath
Chayah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Joshua 9:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Gibeonites Act With Cunning
14 And the men take of their provision, and the mouth of Jehovah have not asked; 15 and Joshua maketh with them peace, and maketh with them a covenant, to keep them alive; and swear to them do the princes of the company. 16 And it cometh to pass, at the end of three days after that they have made with them a covenant, that they hear that they are their neighbours -- that in their midst they are dwelling.
Cross References
2 Samuel 21:2
And the king calleth for the Gibeonites, and saith unto them -- as to the Gibeonites, they are not of the sons of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorite, and the sons of Israel had sworn to them, and Saul seeketh to smite them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah --
Joshua 11:19
there hath not been a city which made peace with the sons of Israel save the Hivite, inhabitants of Gibeon; the whole they have taken in battle;
Exodus 23:32
thou dost not make a covenant with them, and with their gods;
Deuteronomy 20:10-11
'When thou drawest near unto a city to fight against it, then thou hast called unto it for Peace,
Joshua 2:12-19
And now, swear ye, I pray you, to me by Jehovah -- because I have done with you kindness -- that ye have done, even ye, kindness with the house of my father, and have given to me a true token,
Joshua 6:22-25
And to the two men who are spying the land Joshua said, 'Go into the house of the woman, the harlot, and bring out thence the woman, and all whom she hath, as ye have sworn to her.'
Jeremiah 18:7-8
The moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, To pluck up and to break down, and to destroy,