Parallel Verses
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.
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,
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?"
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?
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 And they will come to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and will say to him and to the men of Israel, From a land far off we came: and now cut out to us a covenant. 7 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. 8 And they will say to Joshua, We thy servants. And Joshua will say to them, Who are ye? and from whence will ye come?
Cross References
Joshua 11:19
There was not a city that made peace to the sons of Israel, only the Hivites dwelling in Gibeon; they took all in war.
Judges 2:2
And ye shall not cut out a covenant to the inhabitants of this land.; their altars ye shall break down: and ye heard not to my voice: why did ye this?
Genesis 10:17
And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
Genesis 34:2
And Shechem will see her, the son of Hamor the Hivite, chief of the land; will take her, and lie with her, and will humble her.
Exodus 3:8
And I will come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of this land to a good and great land, to a land flowing milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
Exodus 23:31-33
And I put thy bounds from the sea of sedge, and even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert even to the river: for I will give into your hand those inhabiting the land, and thou drove them out from before thee.
Exodus 34:12
Watch to thyself lest thou shalt make a covenant with those dwelling in the land which thou goest upon it, lest it shall be for a snare in the midst of thee.
Numbers 33:52
And have driven out all those dwelling in the land from before you, and destroy ye all their watch towers, and all their molten images ye shall destroy, and all their heights ye shall lay waste:
Deuteronomy 7:2-3
And Jehovah thy God gave them before thee, and thou didst smite them: exterminating, thou shalt exterminate them; thou shalt not make to them a covenant and thou shalt not show them mercy.
Deuteronomy 20:16
Only of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God gave to thee an inheritance, thou shalt not preserve alive and breathing:
Joshua 9:1
And it will be when all the kings hear which are on the other side Jordan, in the mountain and in the plain, and in all the coast of the great sea, and in front of Lebanon, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite;