Quotes about Peace

When you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace.

If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you.

But if they refuse to make peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city.

You are not to seek peace or prosperity from them as long as you live.

There you are to sacrifice your peace offerings, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the LORD your God.

because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

So Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine, where even the heavens drip with dew.

And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.

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.”

So Joshua did this and delivered them from the hands of the Israelites, and they did not kill the Gibeonites.

Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction—doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.

“Come up and help me. We will attack Gibeon, because they have made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.”