So Joshua established peace with them and made a treaty to let them live, and the leaders of the community swore an oath to them.

于是约书亚与他们讲和，与他们立约，容他们活着；会众的首领也向他们起誓。

于是约书亚与他们建立和好关系，与他们立约，让他们存活；会众的领袖也向他们起誓。

于是约书亚与他们建立和好关系，与他们立约，让他们存活；会众的领袖也向他们起誓。

约书亚与他们立了和平盟约，容他们存活，会众的首领也向他们起誓守约。

于是约书亚与他们议和，和他们立约，容他们存活；会众的首领也向他们起了誓。

於是約書亞與他們講和，與他們立約，容他們活着；會眾的首領也向他們起誓。

於是約書亞與他們建立和好關係，與他們立約，讓他們存活；會眾的領袖也向他們起誓。

於是約書亞與他們建立和好關係，與他們立約，讓他們存活；會眾的領袖也向他們起誓。

約書亞與他們立了和平盟約，容他們存活，會眾的首領也向他們起誓守約。

於是約書亞與他們議和，和他們立約，容他們存活；會眾的首領也向他們起了誓。

於是約書亞竟跟他們講和，與他們立約，容他們活着；會眾的首領也向他們起誓。

約書亞與之修好立約、容其生存、會中牧伯向之發誓、

約書亞與基遍人修好立約、以存其生。會長加以誓。

於是約書亞與之議和立約、以存其生、會眾牧伯亦與彼立誓、

Then Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the assembly ratified it by oath.

Joshua made a peace treaty with the people who had come. He agreed to let them live. The leaders of the community gave their word that they agreed with the treaty.

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.

So Joshua established peace with them and made a treaty to let them live, and the leaders of the community swore an oath to them.

And Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.

So Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them to let them live; and the rulers of the congregation swore to them.

And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.

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.

Joshua made a peace treaty with them and agreed to let them live. The leaders of the community sealed it with an oath.

Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.

The Gibeonites were not Israelites but rather a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but Saul had tried to kill them in his zeal for the Israelites and Judah. So David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them.

No city made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites who inhabited Gibeon; all of them were taken in battle.

Now please swear to me by the Lord that you will also show kindness to my family, because I showed kindness to you. Give me a sure signthat you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all who belong to them, and save us from death.”The men answered her,“ We will give our lives for yours. If you don’t report our mission, we will show kindness and faithfulness to you when the Lord gives us the land.”Then she let them down by a rope through the window, since she lived in a house that was built into the wall of the city.“ Go to the hill country so that the men pursuing you won’t find you,” she said to them.“ Hide yourselves there for three days until they return; afterward, go on your way.”The men said to her,“ We will be free from this oath you made us swear,unless, when we enter the land, you tie this scarlet cord to the window through which you let us down. Bring your father, mother, brothers, and all your father’s family into your house.If anyone goes out the doors of your house, his blood will be on his own head, and we will be innocent. But if anyone with you in the house should be harmed, his blood will be on our heads.

Joshua said to the two men who had scouted the land,“ Go to the prostitute’s house and bring the woman out of there, and all who are with her, just as you promised her.”So the young men who had scouted went in and brought out Rahab and her father, mother, brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and settled them outside the camp of Israel.They burned up the city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the Lord’s house.However, Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, her father’s household, and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent to spy on Jericho, and she lives in Israel to this day.

You must not make a covenant with them or their gods.

At one moment I might announce concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will uproot, tear down, and destroy it.However, if that nation I have made an announcement about turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the disaster I had planned to do to it.

“ When you approach a city to fight against it, you must make an offer of peace.If it accepts your offer of peace and opens its gates to you, all the people found in it will become forced laborers for you and serve you.