Joshua 9:15

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.

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 9. The Stratagem of the Gibeonites. This account, though composite, is straightforward enough if Joshua 9:17-21 be omitted. These verses...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 252 JOSHUA’S LEAGUE WITH GIBEON Joshua 9:15 . And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live. IT is...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 peac...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 15. And Joshua — With the advice of the elders, who were deceived as well as himself, made peace with them, &c. That is, he not only...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The League with the Gibeonites Joshua 9 forms an introduction to the narrative of the Southern campaign ( Joshua 10 ). The Gibeonite cities were...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XVIII. THE STRATAGEM OF THE GIBEONITES. Joshua 9:1-27 . WE now resume the thread of the story interrupted by the narrative of the trans...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Deceived by the Gibeonites Joshua 9:1-15 The presence of common peril forced the nations of Canaan to combine for self-preservation. Would that...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The fame and the dread of the people by this time were spreading far and wide. The kings of Canaan, conscious of their danger, formed a league agains...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Reader! do not fail to behold your own interest and concern in this history. Are you come, as the men of Gibeon, to seek peace in Jesus? And hath you...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Joshua made peace with them ,.... Upon the report the princes made of having examined what they had said, and which they found to be true, parti...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 15. And...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joshua made a league with them to let them live Not merely, it seems, to spare their lives, which, supposing them to belong to a far country, they...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

DECEIVED BY THE GIBEONITES (vs.1-27) The calm deliberation with which the Lord was acting gave time for the forces of the enemy to be marshaled a...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The League with the Gibeonites. B. C. 1450....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

To let them live, i.e. that they would not destroy them. Some question whether this league was lawful and obliging, because it is contrary to a pos...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ And Joshua made peace with them, and made a treaty-covenant with them, to let them live. And the princes of the congregation swore to them.' Fo...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 9:8 . We are thy servants] This was not a declaration of fealty, but is rather to be read as an expression of courtesy (...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joshua 9:1 . All the kings to fight with Joshua. They realized the ancient proverb, Quem Deus vult perdere, primum dementat. He whom God destroy...
The Biblical Illustrator

The inhabitants of Gibeon . .. did work wilily. A Canaanitish stratagem I. How this device originated. 1. Their wisdom suggested it. The...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE GIBEONITES .— Joshua 9:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings. According to the explanation given above ( Joshua 6:...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Gibeonites Deceive Joshua and the Princes
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to their advantage, to let them live; and the princes of the congregation sware unto t...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 21:2 ; Deuteronomy 20:10 ; Deuteronomy 20:11 ; Jeremiah 18:7 ; Jeremiah 18:8 ; Joshua 11:19 ; Joshua 2:12-19 ; Joshua 6:22-25
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

To let them live — That is, they should not destroy them. That this league was lawful and obliging, appears, Because Joshua and all the princes, up...

¹⁵ 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.

Related Commentaries of Joshua 9:15

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Joshua 9:15