Joshua 9:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.

Joshua 9:26 —

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 22-27)

The matter is here settled between Joshua and the Gibeonites, and an explanation of the league agreed upon. We may suppose that now, not the messengers who were first sent, but the elders of Gibeon, and of the cities that were dependent upon it, were themselves present and treated with, that the matter might be fully compromised. I. Joshua reproves them for their fraud, Josh. 9:22. And they excuse…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

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,…