Parallel Verses
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?"
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?
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?
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 came unto Joshua, unto the host to Gilgal, and said unto him and unto the men of Israel, "We be come from a far country, now therefore make agreement with us." 7 And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, "Peradventure you dwell among us, and then how should we make peace with you?" 8 And they said unto Joshua, "We are thy servants." And Joshua said unto them, "What are ye, and whence come ye?"
Cross References
Joshua 11:19
for there was no city that made peace with the children of Israel, save those Hittites that inhabited Gibeon. All other they took with battle,
Judges 2:2
but ye should have made no covenant with the inhabiters of this land, ye should have broken down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice. Why have ye this done?
Genesis 10:17
Hivi, Arki, Sini,
Genesis 34:2
And Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, lord of the country, saw her, and took her, and lay with her, and forced her:
Exodus 3:8
and am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land unto a good land and a large, and unto a land that floweth with milk and honey: even unto the place of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and of the Jebusites.
Exodus 23:31-33
And I will make thy coasts from the reed sea unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river. I will deliver the inhabiters of the land into thine hand, and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
Exodus 34:12
Take heed to thyself, that thou make no covenant with the inhabiters of the land whither thou goest lest it be cause of ruin among you.
Numbers 33:52
see that ye drive out all the inhabiters of the land before you, and destroy their imaginations and all their images of metal, and pluck down all their altars built on hills:
Deuteronomy 7:2-3
and when the LORD thy God hath set them before thee that thou shouldest smite them: see that thou utterly destroy them and make no covenant with them nor have compassion on them.
Deuteronomy 20:16
But in the cities of these nations which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth.
Joshua 9:1
And when all the kings that dwell on this side Jordan, in the hills and valleys, and along by all the coasts of the great sea even unto Lebanon - the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perezites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites - heard,