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Joshua 9:16

in Joshua 9

Three days after they had made the treaty with the Gibeonites, the Israelites learned that they were neighbors, living among them.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they dwelt among them.

KJV

And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.

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This verse in Joshua 9

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

At the end of three days - Gibeon is reputed to be only about eight leagues distant from Gilgal, and on this account the fraud might be easily discovered in the time mentioned above.

This site's exposition

And Joshua made peace with

on Joshua 9:15-16

Joshua makes peace and the princes swear, and the oath is by the Lord God of Israel, which verses 18 and 19 give as the reason nothing can afterward be undone. Three days is the whole life of the deception, so it fails almost at once and still binds. Joshua covers the ground from Gilgal to Gibeon in a single night march at 10:9, which is how near the far country was.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And it came to pass at the end of three days, after they had made a league with them,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

How the matter was adjusted to the satisfaction of all sides, by giving these Gibeonites their lives because they had covenanted with them, yet depriving them of their liberties because the covenant was not fairly obtained,

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְהִ֗יand it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • מִקְצֵה֙from [the] end of

    miktzehH7097 →97 times

  • שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁתthree

    sheloshetH7969 →432 times

  • יָמִ֔יםdays

    yamimH3117 →2304 times

  • אַחֲרֵ֕יafter

    ʾachareiH310 →715 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־that

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • כָּרְת֥וּthey had made

    karetuH3772 →288 times

  • לָהֶ֖םto <the> them

    lahem

  • בְּרִ֑יתa covenant

    beritH1285 →284 times

  • וַֽיִּשְׁמְע֗וּand they heard

    vaiyishmeuH8085 →1159 times

  • כִּי־that

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • קְרֹבִ֥ים[were] near

    kerovimH7138 →

  • הֵם֙they

    hemH1992 →553 times

  • אֵלָ֔יוto him

    ʾelavH413 →5510 times

  • וּבְקִרְבּ֖וֹand in midst his

    uvekirboH7130 →227 times

  • הֵ֥םthey

    hemH1992 →553 times

  • יֹשְׁבִֽים׃[were] dwelling

    yoshevimH3427 →1079 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Proverbs 12:19

    Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 19:9

      A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who pours out lies will perish.

    • Psalms 52:4–5

      You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.

    • Job 20:5

      the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

    • Zechariah 1:4–6

      Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen…

    • Acts 5:3–10

      Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land?

About Joshua

The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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