Thou shalt make no covenant with them
A covenant of peace, a league, a confederacy, so as to take them
to be their allies and friends; but they were always to consider
them as their enemies, until they had made an utter end of them;
though the Gibeonites by craft and guile obtained a league of
them; but the methods they took to get it show they had some
knowledge of this law, that the Israelites might not, or at least
would not, make any league or covenant with the inhabitants of
the land of Canaan. This may be also extended to marriage
covenants, which they were forbid to make with them; which yet
they did, and proved a snare to them, for this brought them to
makes a covenant with their gods, and serve them, which is here
also forbidden:
nor with their gods;
making vows unto them, promising to serve them, if they would do
such and such things for them.