Joshua 9:15 Cross References - NSB

¹⁵ Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live. The leaders of the congregation ratified it by an oath.

³² »Do not make any agreement with them or with their gods.

¹⁰ »When you go to attack a city, first give its people a chance to surrender. ¹¹ »If they open the gates and surrender, they will all become your slaves and do forced labor for you.

¹² »I pray that you will swear to me by Jehovah, since I have showed you kindness that you will also show kindness to my father’s house, and give me a true token(sign) (pledge of truth); ¹³ »That you will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers and sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.« ¹⁴ The men answered her: »Our life for yours, if you do not reveal our business. It will be, when Jehovah has given us the land. We will deal kindly and truly with you.« ¹⁵ Then she let them down by a cord through the window for her house was upon the town wall. She lived on the wall. ¹⁶ She said: »Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers return and afterward go your way.« ¹⁷ The men said to her: »We will be free from this oath you made us swear. ¹⁸ »When we come into the land, tie this scarlet cord in the window from which you let us down. Bring your father, mother, brothers and sisters and your father’s entire household into your home. ¹⁹ »Whoever goes out of your house into the street will be responsible for his own life. We will be guiltless: and whoever shall be with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is laid on him.

¹⁹ Not one city made peace with the children of Israel except the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took all the others in battle.

²² Joshua said to the two men that had spied out the country: »Go into the harlot’s house, and bring the woman out as you swore to her.« ²³ The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, mother, and her brothers and all that she had. They brought out all her relatives and left them outside the camp of Israel. ²⁴ They burned the city and all its contents. They put the silver, gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron into the treasury of the house of Jehovah. ²⁵ Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father’s household, and all that she had. She dwells in Israel even to this day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

² The Gibeonites were not a part of Israel but were left over from the Amorites. The Israelites swore to spare them. Saul, in his eagerness, tried to destroy them for Israel and Judah. The king called the Gibeonites.

⁷ »At one time I may threaten to tear up, break down, and destroy a nation or a kingdom. ⁸ »However if the nation that I threatened turns away from doing wrong. Then I will change my plans about the disaster I planned to do to it.