The Israelites replied to these Hivites,“ How do we know you don’t live nearby? For if you do, we cannot make a treaty with you.”

以色列人对这些希未人说：“只怕你们是住在我们中间的；若是这样，怎能和你们立约呢？”

以色列人对希未人说：“或许你是住在我附近的。若是这样，我怎能和你立约呢？”

以色列人对希未人说：“或许你是住在我附近的。若是这样，我怎能和你立约呢？”

以色列人对这些希未人说：“你们也许就住在附近。我们怎么能跟你们缔结盟约呢？”

以色列人对这些希未人说：“你们也许是这地的居民，若是这样，我们怎样和你们立约呢？”

以色列人對這些希未人說：「只怕你們是住在我們中間的；若是這樣，怎能和你們立約呢？」

以色列人對希未人說：「或許你是住在我附近的。若是這樣，我怎能和你立約呢？」

以色列人對希未人說：「或許你是住在我附近的。若是這樣，我怎能和你立約呢？」

以色列人對這些希未人說：「你們也許就住在附近。我們怎麼能跟你們締結盟約呢？」

以色列人對這些希未人說：“你們也許是這地的居民，若是這樣，我們怎樣和你們立約呢？”

以色列人對這些希未人說：『只怕你們是住在我們中間的，那我們怎能和你們立約呢？』

以色列人謂希未人曰、爾殆居於我中、焉能與爾立約、

以色列族謂自基遍來之希未人、曰、恐爾居處離我不遠、焉能與爾立約。

以色列人謂此希未人曰、恐爾居於我中、焉能與爾立約乎、

The Israelites said to the Hivites,“ But perhaps you live near us, so how can we make a treaty with you?”

The Israelites said to the Hivites,“ But suppose you live close to us. If you do, we can’t make a peace treaty with you.”

But the men of Israel said to the Hivites,“ Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a covenant with you?”

The men of Israel replied to the Hivites,“ Perhaps you live among us. How can we make a treaty with you?”

But the men of Israel said to the Hivites,“ Perhaps you are living within our land; how then are we to make a covenant with you?”

Then the men of Israel said to the Hivites,“ Perhaps you dwell among us; so how can we make a covenant with you?”

And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?

The men of Israel replied to the Hivites,“ Perhaps you live among us. How can we make a treaty with you?”

And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?

The men of Israel said to the Hivites,“ Perhaps you live near us. So how can we make a treaty with you?”

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

No one in this region made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites of Gibeon. All the others were defeated.

For your part, you were not to make any covenants with the people living in this land; instead, you were to destroy their altars. But you disobeyed my command. Why did you do this?

When the Lord your God hands these nations over to you and you conquer them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaties with them and show them no mercy.You must not intermarry with them. Do not let your daughters and sons marry their sons and daughters,

So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey— the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.

you must drive out all the people living there. You must destroy all their carved and molten images and demolish all their pagan shrines.

But when the local prince, Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, saw Dinah, he seized her and raped her.

“ Be very careful never to make a treaty with the people who live in the land where you are going. If you do, you will follow their evil ways and be trapped.

Now all the kings west of the Jordan River heard about what had happened. These were the kings of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who lived in the hill country, in the western foothills, and along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea as far north as the Lebanon mountains.

In those towns that the Lord your God is giving you as a special possession, destroy every living thing.

And I will fix your boundaries from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the eastern wilderness to the Euphrates River. I will hand over to you the people now living in the land, and you will drive them out ahead of you.“ Make no treaties with them or their gods.They must not live in your land, or they will cause you to sin against me. If you serve their gods, you will be caught in the trap of idolatry.”

Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,