Joshua 9:15
15
Then Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the assembly ratified it by oath.
Read Joshua 9:15 Using Other Translations
And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.
And Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore to them.
Then Joshua made a peace treaty with them and guaranteed their safety, and the leaders of the community ratified their agreement with a binding oath.
What does Joshua 9:15 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Joshua 9:15
And Joshua made peace with them
Upon the report the princes made of having examined what they had
said, and which they found to be true, particularly concerning
their victuals:
and made a league with them, to let them live;
and not destroy them as he did the Canaanites, and was ordered to
do; they being supposed not to belong to them by the
representation of things they had made:
and the princes of the congregation sware unto
them;
that they would keep the league and covenant they had made with
them inviolable; they ratified it by an oath, which was a sacred
solemn thing.
Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide.
(New International Version Bible Online)
