Parallel Verses

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?'

New American Standard Bible

The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you are living within our land; how then shall we make a covenant with you?”

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, “Perhaps you live among us. How can we make a treaty with you?”

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?

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?"

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And the men
אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

of Israel
ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

חוּי 
Chivviy 
Usage: 25

אלי אוּלי 
'uwlay 
Usage: 45

ye dwell
ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

קרב 
Qereb 
Usage: 226

us and how shall we make
כּרת 
Karath 
Usage: 287

a league
בּרית 
B@riyth 
Usage: 284

Context Readings

The Gibeonites Act With Cunning

6 And they go unto Joshua, unto the camp at Gilgal, and say unto him, and unto the men of Israel, 'From a land far off we have come, and now, make with us a covenant;' 7 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?' 8 and they say unto Joshua, 'Thy servants we are.' And Joshua saith unto them, 'Who are ye? and whence come ye?'

Cross References

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;

Judges 2:2

and saith, 'I cause you to come up out of Egypt, and bring you in unto the land which I have sworn to your fathers, and say, I do not break My covenant with you to the age; and ye -- ye make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land -- their altars ye break down; and ye have not hearkened to My voice -- what is this ye have done?

Genesis 10:17

and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

Genesis 34:2

and Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the land, seeth her, and taketh her, and lieth with her, and humbleth her;

Exodus 3:8

and I go down to deliver it out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to cause it to go up out of the land, unto a land good and broad, unto a land flowing with milk and honey -- unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Exodus 23:31-33

'And I have set thy border from the Red Sea, even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I give into your hand the inhabitants of the land, and thou hast cast them out from before thee;

Exodus 34:12

take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land into which thou art going, lest it become a snare in thy midst;

Numbers 33:52

then ye have dispossessed all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and have destroyed all their imagery, yea, all their molten images ye destroy, and all their high places ye lay waste,

Deuteronomy 7:2-3

and Jehovah thy God hath given them before thee, and thou hast smitten them -- thou dost utterly devote them -- thou dost not make with them a covenant, nor dost thou favour them.

Deuteronomy 20:16

Only, of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee for an inheritance, thou dost not keep alive any breathing;

Joshua 9:1

And it cometh to pass, when all the kings who are beyond the Jordan, in the hill-country, and in the low-country, and in every haven of the great sea, over-against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, hear --

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