Joshua 9:7 “But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you dwell near us.…”

Joshua 9:7

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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?

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?”

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?

Geneva Bible 1599

Then the men of Israel said vnto the Hiuites, It may be that thou dwellest among vs, how then can I make a league with thee?

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?

Young's 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?'

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?

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Cross references

“Hivites”

Joshua 11:19 Genesis 10:17 Genesis 34:2 Exodus 3:8

Joshua 11:19 · BSB

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

Genesis 10:17 · BSB

the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

Genesis 34:2 · BSB

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

Exodus 3:8 · BSB

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, Perizzi…

“how shall”

Judges 2:2 Exodus 23:31–33 Exodus 34:12 Numbers 33:52 Deuteronomy 20:16 Deuteronomy 7:2

Judges 2:2 · BSB

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?

Exodus 23:31–33 · BSB

And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

Exodus 34:12 · BSB

Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.

Numbers 33:52 · BSB

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.

Deuteronomy 20:16 · BSB

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.

Deuteronomy 7:2 · BSB

and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

Also

Joshua 9:1

Joshua 9:1 · BSB

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, a…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6They 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.”

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

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