Parallel Verses
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?
New American Standard Bible
The men of Israel said to the
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?
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 went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us. 7 And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you? 8 And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye?
Cross References
Joshua 11:19
There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle.
Judges 2:2
And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
Genesis 10:17
And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
Genesis 34:2
And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
Exodus 3:8
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto 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 will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
Exodus 34:12
Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
Numbers 33:52
Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
Deuteronomy 7:2-3
And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
Deuteronomy 20:16
But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
Joshua 9:1
And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;