Joshua 9:15
Good News Translation
Joshua made a treaty of friendship with the people of Gibeon and allowed them to live. The leaders of the community of Israel gave their solemn promise to keep the treaty.

New Revised Standard Version
And Joshua made peace with them, guaranteeing their lives by a treaty; and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.

Contemporary English Version
So Joshua made a peace treaty with the messengers and promised that Israel would not kill their people. Israel's leaders swore that Israel would keep this promise.

New American Bible
So Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant to let them live, which the leaders of the community sealed with an oath.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Joshua made peace with them, and entering into a league, promised that they should not be slain: the princes also of the multitude swore to them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Joshua made peace with them, and entering into a league, promised that they should not be slain: the princes also of the multitude swore to them.

made peace

Joshua 2:12-19 Now, therefore, swear ye to me by the Lord, that as I have shewed mercy to you, so you also will shew mercy to my father's house: and give me a true token. . . .

Joshua 6:22-25 But Joshua said to the two men that had been sent for spies: Go into the harlot's house, and bring her out, and all things that are hers, as you assured her by oath. . . .

Joshua 11:19 There was not a city that delivered itself to the children of Israel, except the Hevite, who dwelt in Gabaon: for he took all by fight.

Deuteronomy 20:10,11 If at any time thou come to fight against a city, thou shalt first offer it peace. . . .

2 Samuel 21:2 Then the king, calling for the Gabaonites, said to them: (Now the Gabaonites were not of the children of Israel, but the remains of the Amorrhites: and the children of Israel had sworn to them, and Saul sought to slay them out of zeal, as it were for the children of Israel and Juda:)

Jeremiah 18:7,8 I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it. . . .

and the

2 Samuel 21:2 Then the king, calling for the Gabaonites, said to them: (Now the Gabaonites were not of the children of Israel, but the remains of the Amorrhites: and the children of Israel had sworn to them, and Saul sought to slay them out of zeal, as it were for the children of Israel and Juda:)

Context
The Deceit of the Gibeonites
14They took therefore of their victuals, and consulted not the mouth of the Lord. 15And Joshua made peace with them, and entering into a league, promised that they should not be slain: the princes also of the multitude swore to them.16Now three days after the league was made, they heard that they dwelt nigh, and they should be among them.…
Cross References
Exodus 23:32
Thou shalt not enter into league with them, nor with their gods.

Joshua 9:16
Now three days after the league was made, they heard that they dwelt nigh, and they should be among them.

Joshua 10:1
When Adonisedec, king of Jerusalem, had heard these things, to wit, that Joshua had taken Hai, and had destroyed it, (for as he had done to Jericho and the king thereof, so did he to Hai and its king) and that the Gabaonites were gone over to Israel, and were their confederates,

Joshua 10:4
Come up to me, and bring help, that we may take Gabaon, because it hath gone over to Joshua, and to the children of Israel.

2 Samuel 21:2
Then the king, calling for the Gabaonites, said to them: (Now the Gabaonites were not of the children of Israel, but the remains of the Amorrhites: and the children of Israel had sworn to them, and Saul sought to slay them out of zeal, as it were for the children of Israel and Juda:)

Joshua 9:14
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