Joshua 9:7 Parallel Translations

The men of Israel said to the Hivites, "What if you're living in this area? We wouldn't be able to make a treaty with you."(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?

ASV:

And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?

BBE:

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?

DBY:

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?

ERV:

And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?

JPS:

And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites: 'Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?'

WBS:

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?

WEB:

The men of Israel said to the Hivites, "What if you live among us. How could we make a covenant with you?"

YLT:

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?'

Joshua 9:7 Cross References

XREF:

Exodus 23:32 "You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.

Deuteronomy 7:2 and when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them.

Joshua 9:1 Now it came about when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country and in the lowland and on all the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, heard of it,

Joshua 11:19 There was not a city which made peace with the sons of Israel except the Hivites living in Gibeon; they took them all in battle. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

9:7 And the men of Israel said unto the {d} Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?
(d) For the Gibeonites and the Hivites were all one people.

WES:

9:7 The Hivites - That is, the Gibeonites who were Hivites, Josh 11:19. Among us - That is, in this land, and so are of that people with whom we are forbidden to make any league or covenant.

MHC:

9:3-13 Other people heard these tidings, and were driven thereby to make war upon Israel; but the Gibeonites were led to make peace with them. Thus the discovery of the glory and the grace of God in the gospel, is to some a savour of life unto life, but to others a savour of death unto death, 2Co 2:16. The same sun softens wax and hardens clay. The falsehood of the Gibeonites cannot be justified. We must not do evil that good may themselves to the God of Israel, we have reason to think Joshua would have been directed by the oracle of God to spare their lives. But when they had once said, We are come from a far country, they were led to say it made of skins, and their clothes: one lie brings on another, and that a third, and so on. The way of that sin is especially down-hill. Yet their faith and prudence are to be commended. In submitting to Israel they submitted to the God of Israel, which implied forsaking their idolatries. And how can we do better than cast ourselves upon the mercy of a God of all goodness? The way to avoid judgment is to meet it by repentance. Let us do like these Gibeonites, seek peace with God in the rags of abasement, and godly sorrow; so our sin shall not be our ruin. Let us be servants to Jesus, our blessed Joshua, and we shall live.

CONC:

Agreement Covenant Dwell Dwellest Dwelling Hivite Hivites League Midst Peradventure Perhaps Treaty Within

Agreement Covenant Dwell Dwellest Dwelling Hivite Hivites Israel Live Midst Peradventure Perhaps Treaty Within

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