TREATY

Passages on this topic · 54

• Exodus 34:12

  Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the middle of you:

• Exodus 34:15

  “Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

• Joshua 2:8

  Before they had lain down, she came up to them on the roof.

• Joshua 2:9

  She said to the men, “I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

• Joshua 2:10

  For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

• Joshua 2:11

  As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, and there wasn’t any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.

• Joshua 2:12

  Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a true sign;

• Joshua 2:13

  and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.”

• Joshua 2:14

  The men said to her, “Our life for yours, if you don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.”

• Joshua 2:15

  Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.

• Joshua 2:16

  She said to them, “Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way.”

• Joshua 2:17

  The men said to her, “We will be guiltless of this your oath which you’ve made us to swear.

• Joshua 2:18

  Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. Gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.

• Joshua 2:19

  It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.

• Joshua 2:20

  But if you talk about this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you’ve made us to swear.”

• Joshua 2:21

  She said, “Let it be as you have said.” She sent them away, and they departed. Then she tied the scarlet line in the window.

• Joshua 9:3

  But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

• Joshua 9:4

  they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wine skins,

• Joshua 9:5

  and old and patched shoes on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their food supply was dry and moldy.

• Joshua 9:6

  They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us.”

• Joshua 9:7

  The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “What if you live among us. How could we make a covenant with you?”

• Joshua 9:8

  They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.” Joshua said to them, “Who are you? Where do you come from?”

• Joshua 9:9

  They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,

• Joshua 9:10

  and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.

• Joshua 9:11

  Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, ‘Take supplies in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them. Tell them, “We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us.”’

• Joshua 9:12

  This our bread we took hot for our supplies out of our houses on the day we went out to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and has become moldy.

• Joshua 9:13

  These wine skins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our shoes have become old because of the very long journey.”

• Joshua 9:14

  The men sampled their provisions, and didn’t ask counsel from Yahweh’s mouth.

• Joshua 9:15

  Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.

• Joshua 9:16

  At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.

• Joshua 9:17

  The children of Israel traveled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

• Joshua 9:18

  The children of Israel didn’t strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.

• Joshua 9:19

  But all the princes said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. Now therefore we may not touch them.

• Joshua 9:20

  We will do this to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.”

• Joshua 9:21

  The princes said to them, “Let them live, so they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them.”

• 1 Kings 5:1

  Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father, and Hiram had always loved David.

• 1 Kings 5:2

  Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

• 1 Kings 5:3

  “You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh his God because of the wars which were around him on every side, until Yahweh put his enemies under the soles of his feet.

• 1 Kings 5:4

  But now Yahweh my God has given me rest on every side. There is no enemy and no evil occurrence.

• 1 Kings 5:5

  Behold, I intend to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place shall build the house for my name.’

• 1 Kings 5:6

  Now therefore command that cedar trees be cut for me out of Lebanon. My servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you say. For you know that there is nobody among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”

• 1 Kings 5:7

  When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, “Blessed is Yahweh today, who has given to David a wise son to rule over this great people.”

• 1 Kings 5:8

  Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning cypress timber.

• 1 Kings 5:9

  My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you specify to me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you will receive them. You will accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.”

• 1 Kings 5:10

  So Hiram gave Solomon cedar timber and cypress timber according to all his desire.

• 1 Kings 5:11

  Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat for food to his household, and twenty cors of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.

• 1 Kings 5:12

  Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty together.

• 1 Kings 9:10

  At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, Yahweh’s house and the king’s house

• 1 Kings 9:11

  (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

• 1 Kings 9:12

  Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him.

• 1 Kings 9:13

  He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” He called them the land of Cabul to this day.

• 1 Kings 9:14

  Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.

• 1 Kings 15:19

  “There is a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.”

• 1 Kings 20:34

  Ben Hadad said to him, “The cities which my father took from your father I will restore. You shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria.” “I”, said Ahab, “will let you go with this covenant.” So he made a covenant with him, and let him go.