Treaty

“But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,”

““Let there be a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. See, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Now go and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.””

“Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,”

“Ben-hadad said to him, “I will restore the cities my father took from your father; you may set up your own marketplaces in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” “By this treaty I release you,” Ahab replied. So he made a treaty with him and sent him away.”

“Three days after they had made the treaty with the Gibeonites, the Israelites learned that they were neighbors, living among them.”

“Now when Hiram king of Tyre heard that Solomon had been anointed king in his father’s place, he sent envoys to Solomon; for Hiram had always been a friend of David.”

“Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.”

“Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.”