Joshua 9:15 Cross References - BBE

¹⁵ So Joshua made peace with them, and made an agreement with them that they were not to be put to death: and the chiefs of the people took an oath to them.

³² Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

¹⁰ When you come to a town, before attacking it, make an offer of peace. ¹¹ And if it gives you back an answer of peace, opening its doors to you, then all the people in it may be put to forced work as your servants.

¹² So now, will you give me your oath by the Lord, that, because I have been kind to you, you will be kind to my father's house, ¹³ And that you will keep safe my father and mother and my brothers and sisters and all they have, so that death may not come on us? ¹⁴ And the men said to her, Our life for yours if you keep our business secret; and when the Lord has given us the land, we will keep faith and be kind to you. ¹⁵ Then she let them down from the window by a cord, for the house where she was living was on the town wall. ¹⁶ And she said to them, Get away into the hill-country, or the men who have gone after you will overtake you; keep yourselves safe there for three days, till the searchers have come back, and then go on your way. ¹⁷ And the men said to her, We will only be responsible for this oath which you have made us take, ¹⁸ If, when we come into the land, you put this cord of bright red thread in the window from which you let us down; and get your father and mother and your brothers and all your family into the house; ¹⁹ Then if anyone goes out of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, we will not be responsible; but if any damage comes to anyone in the house, his blood will be on our heads.

²² Then Joshua said to the two men who had been sent to make a search through the land, Go into the house of the loose woman, and get her out, and all who are with her, as you gave her your oath. ²³ So the searchers went in and got out Rahab and her father and mother and her brothers and all she had, and they got out all her family; and they took them outside the tents of Israel. ²⁴ Then, after burning up the town and everything in it, they put the silver and gold and the vessels of brass and iron into the store-house of the Lord's house. ²⁵ But Joshua kept Rahab, the loose woman, and her father's family and all she had, from death, and so she got a living-place among the children of Israel to this day; because she kept safe the men whom Joshua had sent to make a search through the land.

¹⁹ Not one town made peace with the children of Israel, but only the Hivites of Gibeon: they took them all in war.

² Then the king sent for the Gibeonites; now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but were the last of the Amorites, to whom the children of Israel had given an oath; but Saul, in his passion for the children of Israel and Judah, had made an attempt on their lives:

⁷ Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it; ⁸ If, in that very minute, that nation of which I was talking is turned away from its evil, my purpose of doing evil to them will be changed.