Quotes about Coexistence
Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We will dwell among you and become one people.
— Genesis 34:16
“These men are at peace with us. Let them live and trade in our land; indeed, it is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters in marriage and give our daughters to them.
— Genesis 34:21
Will not their livestock, their possessions, and all their animals become ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell among us.”
— Genesis 34:23
You are not to seek peace or prosperity from them as long as you live.
— Deuteronomy 23:6
And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.
— Joshua 9:15
but the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites. So Geshur and Maacath dwell among the Israelites to this day.
— Joshua 13:13
But the descendants of Judah could not drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the descendants of Judah.
— Joshua 15:63
The Benjamites, however, failed to drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the Benjamites.
— Judges 1:21
Ephraim also failed to drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer; so the Canaanites continued to dwell among them in Gezer.
— Judges 1:29
So the Asherites lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, because they did not drive them out.
— Judges 1:32
Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
— Judges 3:5
For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.
— Job 5:23