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Joshua 9:7

But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you dwell near us. How can we make a treaty with you?”

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ASV

And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?

KJV

And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?

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13 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvai.yo.me.ruand he saidH559 →
אִֽישׁ־'ish-[the] man ofH376 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478 →
אֶל־'el-toH413 →
הַחִוִּ֑יha.chi.Vithe Hivite[s]H2340 →
אוּלַ֗י'u.LaiperhapsH194 →
בְּקִרְבִּי֙be.kir.Biin midst myH7130 →
אַתָּ֣ה'a.TahyouH859 →
יוֹשֵׁ֔בyo.Shev[are] dwellingH3427 →
וְאֵ֖יךְve.'Eikhand how?H349 →
אֶֽכְרָת'ekh.rot-will I makeH3772 →
לְךָ֥le.Khato <the> you
בְרִֽית׃ve.Rita covenantH1285 →

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Joshua 11:19No city made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites living in Gibeon; all others were taken in battle.Judges 2:2and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?Deuteronomy 7:2–3and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.Joshua 9:1Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)—Exodus 34:12Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.Numbers 33:52you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.Genesis 10:17the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,Genesis 34:2When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.Exodus 3:8I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.Deuteronomy 20:16However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.Exodus 23:31–33And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

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The Walls of Jericho Fall Down — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Walls of Jericho Fall Down — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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