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Joshua 9:7

5 They put worn, patched sandals on their feet and threadbare clothing on their bodies, and their whole supply of bread was dry and moldy.

6 They went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land; please make a treaty with us.”

But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you dwell near us. How can we make a treaty with you?”

8 “We are your servants,” they said to Joshua. Then Joshua asked them, “Who are you and where have you come from?”

9 “Your servants have come from a very distant land,” they replied, “because of the fame of the LORD your God. For we have heard the reports about Him: all that He did in Egypt,

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you dwell near us. How can we make a treaty with you?”
KJV
And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure 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?”
ASV
And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?
DARBY
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?
BLB
And the men of Israel said to the Hivite, “Perhaps among us you are dwelling, and how can I cut with you a covenant?”
ÅB
Da sa Israels menn til hevittene: Kanskje bor dere her midt iblant oss; hvordan kan vi da gjøre noen pakt med dere?
OTB
Israelittene sa til hevittene: “Kanskje dere bor nær oss; hvordan kan vi da inngå en pakt med dere?”
B1930
Da sa Israels menn til hevittene: Kanskje bor I her midt iblandt oss; hvorledes kan vi da gjøre nogen pakt med eder?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Joshua 11:19

    No city made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites living in Gibeon; all others were taken in battle.

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  • Judges 2:2

    and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?

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  • Genesis 10:17

    the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

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  • Numbers 33:52

    you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.

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  • Deuteronomy 20:16

    However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.

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  • Joshua 9:1

    Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)—

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  • Exodus 3:8

    I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

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  • Genesis 34:2

    When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.

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