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Green's Literal Translation

Joshua 9:20

We shall do this to them, and shall keep them alive, and wrath shall not be on us because of the oath which we have sworn to them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Alliances;   Contracts;   Covenant;   Government;   Joshua;   Kirjath-Jearim;   Magnanimity;   Oath;   Servant;   Treaty;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Gibeonites;   Oaths;   Swearing Falsely;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gibeon;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - All-Sufficiency of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Alliance;   Gibeon;   Slave;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Pentateuch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joshua, the Book of;   Oaths;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gibeon;   Israel;   Joshua;   Stranger;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Alliance;   Prince, Princess;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elder;   Gibeon;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Nethinim;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Charm;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Alliances;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Gibeon and Gibeonites;   Hivites;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
This we will do to them: let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath that we swore to them."
Update Bible Version
This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.
New Living Translation
This is what we must do. We must let them live, for divine anger would come upon us if we broke our oath.
English Revised Version
This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
New Century Version
This is what we must do. We must let them live. Otherwise, God's anger will be against us for breaking the oath we swore to them.
New English Translation
We must let them live so we can escape the curse attached to the oath we swore to them."
Webster's Bible Translation
This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we swore to them.
World English Bible
This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.
Amplified Bible
"This [is what] we will do to them: we will let them live, so that the wrath [of God] does not come upon us for [violating] the oath which we have sworn to them."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
but we schulen do this thing to hem, sotheli be thei reserued that thei lyue, lest the ire of the Lord be stirid ayens vs, if we forsweren to hem;
Young's Literal Translation
this we do to them, and have kept them alive, and wrath is not upon us, because of the oath which we have sworn to them.'
Berean Standard Bible
This is how we will treat them: We will let them live, so that no wrath will fall on us because of the oath we swore to them."
American Standard Version
This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
Bible in Basic English
This is what we will do to them: we will not put them to death, for fear that wrath may come on us because of our oath to them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But this we wyll do to them, We wyll let them liue, lest wrath be vpon vs because of the othe which we sware vnto them.
Complete Jewish Bible
Here is what we will do to them: we will let them live, so that God's anger will not be on us because of the oath we swore to them.
Darby Translation
This we will do to them, and let them live, lest wrath come upon us, because of the oath which we swore unto them.
Easy-to-Read Version
This is what we must do. We must let them live. We cannot hurt them or God will be angry with us because we broke the promise we made to them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we swore unto them.'
King James Version (1611)
This we will doe to them; wee will euen let them liue, lest wrath be vpon vs, because of the oath which wee sware vnto them.
New Life Bible
This is what we will do to them. We will let them live, or anger would be upon us for the promise we swore to them."
New Revised Standard
This is what we will do to them: We will let them live, so that wrath may not come upon us, because of the oath that we swore to them."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
This, will we do unto them, even let them live, - lest there come on us wrath, because of the oath which we have sworn unto them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But this we wil doe to them, and let them liue, least the wrath be vpon vs because of the othe which we sware vnto them.
George Lamsa Translation
This we will do to them: we will let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oaths which we swore to them.
Good News Translation
We must let them live because of our promise; if we don't, God will punish us.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But this we will do to them: Let their lives be saved, lest the wrath of the Lord be stirred up against us, if we should be forsworn:
Revised Standard Version
This we will do to them, and let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we swore to them."
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
This we will do; take them alive, and we will preserve them: so there shall not be wrath against us by reason of the oath which we swore to them.
Christian Standard Bible®
This is how we will treat them: we will let them live, so that no wrath will fall on us because of the oath we swore to them.”
Hebrew Names Version
This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.
King James Version
This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
Lexham English Bible
This we will do to them: we will let them live so that wrath will not be on us because of the oath we swore to them."
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But this wil we do vnto them: Let them lyue, that there come no wrath vpon vs, because of the ooth that we haue made vnto them.
New American Standard Bible
"This we will do to them, even let them live, so that wrath will not be on us because of the oath which we swore to them."
New King James Version
This we will do to them: We will let them live, lest wrath be upon us because of the oath which we swore to them."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"This we will do to them, even let them live, so that wrath will not be upon us for the oath which we swore to them."
Legacy Standard Bible
This we will do to them, even let them live, so that wrath will not be upon us for the oath which we swore to them."

Contextual Overview

15 And Joshua made peace with them, and cut a covenant with them, to keep them alive. And the leaders of the congregation swore to them. 16 And at the end of three days after they had cut a covenant with them. And it happened that they heard that they were their neighbors, and they were living in their midst. 17 And the sons of Israel pulled up stakes and came to their cities on the third day. And their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim. 18 And the sons of Israel did not strike them, for the leaders of the congregation swore to them by Jehovah the God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the leaders. 19 And all the leaders said to all the congregation, We have sworn to them by Jehovah the God of Israel; and now we cannot touch them. 20 We shall do this to them, and shall keep them alive, and wrath shall not be on us because of the oath which we have sworn to them. 21 And the leaders said to them, They shall live and be woodcutters, and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the leaders spoke to them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lest wrath: 2 Samuel 21:1-6, 2 Chronicles 36:13, Proverbs 20:25, Ezekiel 17:12-21, Zechariah 5:3, Zechariah 5:4, Malachi 3:5, Romans 1:31, 1 Timothy 1:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:8 - clear Exodus 20:7 - guiltless Joshua 9:19 - We have 1 Samuel 30:15 - Swear 2 Chronicles 16:3 - break Ezekiel 17:16 - whose oath

Cross-References

Genesis 3:23
Jehovah God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground out of which he was taken.
Genesis 4:2
And she continued to bear his brother, Abel. And Abel became a shepherd of flocks. And Cain became a tiller of the ground.
Genesis 5:29
And he called his name Noah, saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands because of the ground which the Lord has cursed.
Genesis 9:18
And the sons of Noah that went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan.
Genesis 9:19
These are the three sons of Noah, and the whole earth was overspread from them.
Genesis 9:24
And Noah awoke from his wine. And he came to know what his younger son had done to him.
Genesis 9:26
And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem; and may Canaan be his slave.
Deuteronomy 20:6
And who is the man that has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, that he not die in battle, and another man use its fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:30
You shall betroth a wife, and another shall lie with her. You shall build a house, and you shall not live in it. You shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use its fruit.
Proverbs 10:11
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This we will do to them,.... Either this favour we will show them, preserving their lives, next mentioned, or this punishment we will inflict on them, making them hewers of wood, and drawers of water; which though not mentioned directly, was what was upon their minds, and in their design to propose, only they were extremely desirous of sparing their lives, which they repeat:

we will even let them live; this by all means must be done, their lives must not be taken away as the rest of the Canaanites:

lest wrath come upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them; that is, lest the wrath of God come upon us princes, and upon the whole community, for perjury, a breach of the third command, Exodus 20:7, a sin highly displeasing to God; since an oath is made not only in his presence, and before him as a witness, who is appealed unto, but in his name, and is often severely threatened, and sorely punished; and as even the breach of this oath was several hundreds of years after, in the times of David, 2 Samuel 21:1. The Vulgate Latin version therefore reads the words, "lest the wrath of the Lord come upon us": but Abarbinel observes, that it may be understood of the wrath of Israel; for the words may be rendered, "and there shall not be wrath upon us, because of the oath": there need be none, there is no occasion for it, since this was agreed upon on all hands, that the Gibeonites should be let to live; and since it was an act of kindness and goodness, and especially they would have no reason to be angry and wrathful with them, when they heard them out, what they had further to propose to them, to make them their servants, though they spared their lives.


 
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