Joshua 9:26 So Joshua saved them from the Israelites, and they did not kill them.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
So Joshua saved them from the Israelites, and they did not kill them.

English Standard Version
So he did this to them and delivered them out of the hand of the people of Israel, and they did not kill them.

New American Standard Bible
Thus he did to them, and delivered them from the hands of the sons of Israel, and they did not kill them.

King James Bible
And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is what Joshua did to them: he delivered them from the hands of the Israelites, and they did not kill them.

International Standard Version
So this is what Joshua did for them: he saved them from the Israelis, and they did not kill them.

American Standard Version
And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So Josue did as he had said, and delivered them from the hand of the children of Israel, that they should not be slain.

Darby Bible Translation
And he did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, and they did not slay them.

Young's Literal Translation
And he doth to them so, and delivereth them from the hand of the sons of Israel, and they have not slain them;

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

9:22-27 The Gibeonites do not justify their lie, but plead that they did it to save their lives. And the fear was not merely of the power of man; one might flee from that to the Divine protection; but of the power of God himself, which they saw engaged against them. Joshua sentences them to perpetual bondage. They must be servants, but any work becomes honourable, when it is done for the house of the Lord, and the offices thereof. Let us, in like manner, submit to our Lord Jesus, saying, We are in thy hand, do unto us as seemeth good and right unto thee, only save our souls; and we shall not repent it. If He appoints us to bear his cross, and serve him, that shall be neither shame nor grief to us, while the meanest office in God's service will entitle us to a dwelling in the house of the Lord all the days of our life. And in coming to the Saviour, we do not proceed upon a peradventure. We are invited to draw nigh, and are assured that him that cometh to Him, he will in nowise cast out. Even those things which sound harsh, and are humbling, and form sharp trials of our sincerity, will prove of real advantage.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

18-27. the children of Israel smote them not—The moral character of the Gibeonites' stratagem was bad. The princes of the congregation did not vindicate either the expediency or the lawfulness of the connection they had formed; but they felt the solemn obligations of their oath; and, although the popular clamor was loud against them, caused either by disappointment at losing the spoils of Gibeon, or by displeasure at the apparent breach of the divine commandment, they determined to adhere to their pledge, "because they had sworn by the Lord God of Israel." The Israelitish princes acted conscientiously; they felt themselves bound by their solemn promise; but to prevent the disastrous consequences of their imprudent haste, they resolved to degrade the Gibeonites to a servile condition as a means of preventing their people from being ensnared into idolatry, and thus acted up, as they thought, to the true spirit and end of the law.