Joshua 9:7
What does Joshua 9:7 mean?
A plain-English look at Joshua 9:7 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?
KJV
King James Version · 1611And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And 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?
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and 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?'
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Perhaps you dwell in the land which falls to our lot; if so, we can make no league with you.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And 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?
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Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 7:2
and when Jehovah thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them;
- Genesis 10:17
and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
- Deuteronomy 20:16
But of the cities of these peoples, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth;
- Genesis 34:2
And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her; and he took her, and lay with her, and humbled her.
- Judges 2:2
and ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall break down their altars. But ye have not hearkened unto my voice: why have ye done this?
- Joshua 9:1
And it came to pass, when all the kings that were beyond the Jordan, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;
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