Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
But the Israelis responded to the Hivites, "Perhaps you live in our midst. If this is so, how can we make a treaty with you?"
New American Standard Bible
The men of Israel said to the
King James Version
And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?
Holman Bible
The men of Israel replied to the Hivites,
A Conservative Version
And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, Perhaps ye dwell among us, and how shall we make a covenant with you?
American Standard Version
And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?
Amplified
But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you are living within our land; how then can we make a covenant (treaty) with you?”
Bible in Basic English
And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, It may be that you are living among us; how then may we make an agreement with you?
Darby Translation
And the men of Israel said to the Hivite, Perhaps thou dwellest in the midst of us, and how should I make a covenant with thee?
Julia Smith Translation
And the men of Israel will say to the Hivite, Perhaps thou shalt dwell in the midst of me, and I shall not make a covenant to thee.
King James 2000
And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Perhaps you dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, "Perhaps you [are] living among us; how can we {make a covenant} with you?"
Modern King James verseion
And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, Perhaps you are living among us, and how shall we make a treaty with you?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, "Peradventure you dwell among us, and then how should we make peace with you?"
NET Bible
The men of Israel said to the Hivites, "Perhaps you live near us. So how can we make a treaty with you?"
New Heart English Bible
The men of Israel said to the Hivites, "What if you live among us. How could we make a covenant with you?"
The Emphasized Bible
And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, - Peradventure, in our midst, ye are dwelling, how then can we solemnise with you a covenant?
Webster
And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, It may be ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?
World English Bible
The men of Israel said to the Hivites, "What if you live among us. How could we make a covenant with you?"
Youngs Literal Translation
and the men of Israel say unto the Hivite, 'It may be in our midst ye are dwelling, and how do we make with thee a covenant?'
Themes
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
Craftiness » Instances of » Gibeonites, in deceiving joshua and the israelites into a treaty
Deception » Instances of » The gibeonites, in misrepresenting their habitat
Gibeonites » Descended from the hivites and amorites
Gibeonites » Israel » Deceived by
Hivites » Shechemites and gibeonites were families of
Hivites » The gibeonites a people of
Joshua » Also called jehoshua, and jehoshuah, and oshea » Makes a treaty with the gibeonites
Kirjath-jearim » not killed » by Israelistes » put under » servitude
Interlinear
Yashab
Karath
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Joshua 9:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Gibeonites Act With Cunning
6 Then they approached Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and addressed him and the Israelis, "We've arrived from a distant country, so please make a treaty with us right now." 7 But the Israelis responded to the Hivites, "Perhaps you live in our midst. If this is so, how can we make a treaty with you?" 8 So they responded to Joshua, "We are your servants." Joshua asked them, "Who are you? And where did you come from?"
Cross References
Joshua 11:19
There wasn't a single city that made a peace accord with the Israelis, except the Hivites who lived in Gibeon. The Israelis captured all the rest in battle,
Judges 2:2
As for you, you must not make any treaties with the inhabitants of this land. Instead, tear down their altars.' But you haven't obeyed me. What have you done?
Genesis 10:17
the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
Genesis 34:2
When Hamor the Hivite's son Shechem, the regional leader, saw her, he grabbed her and raped her, humiliating her.
Exodus 3:8
so I have come down to deliver them from their domination by the Egyptians and to bring them out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the territory of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Exodus 23:31-33
"I'll set your borders from the Reed Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River, bringing the inhabitants of the land under your control, and you are to drive them out ahead of you.
Exodus 34:12
"Be very careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going, so they won't be a snare among you.
Numbers 33:52
they are to drive out all the inhabitants of the land and destroy all their idols and their molten images. You are to demolish all their high places,
Deuteronomy 7:2-3
So when the LORD your God delivers them to you and you have defeated them, then utterly destroy them. You are not to make any covenant with them nor be gracious to them.
Deuteronomy 20:16
"You are not to leave even one person alive in the cities of these nations that the LORD your God is about to give you as an inheritance.
Joshua 9:1
Eventually all the kings who reigned in the hill country across the Jordan River and in the low-lying coastlands of the Mediterranean Sea facing Lebanon heard about this. So the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites