Treaty
Treaty
SEE ALLIANCE.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
TREATY
Treaties between people or nations were common in Bible times, as they are today. Such treaties were formal agreements that dealt with matters of mutual concern, such as peace, security and trade (Gen 21:25-33; Gen 26:28-30; 1Ki 9:26-28; 1Ki 20:34; Isa 7:3; Isa 30:1-5; Isa 31:1).
God warned the Israelites of Moses time that when they entered Canaan, they were not to make treaties with the former people of the land, but destroy them. In this way Israel would avoid the possibility of moral and religious corruption through adopting Canaanite practices (Exo 34:12-16).
Nevertheless, in the centuries that followed, a number of Israelite kings made treaties with neighbouring nations. One danger of this practice was that it led to the possibility of moral and religious corruption, because the two parties to the treaty usually paid respect to each others gods. The treaty was sometimes strengthened by a marriage between members of the two royal families, which gave further opportunity for the introduction of foreign religious practices into Israel (1Ki 3:1; 1Ki 11:1-6; 1Ki 16:30-33).
A treaty may also have been a sign of a lack of faith. This was particularly so when Israel (or Judah) trusted for military victory in an alliance with a foreign nation instead of trusting in God (1Ki 15:18-20; Isa 30:1-3; Isa 30:15). Such a treaty would lead inevitably to political and religious domination by the foreign nation in whom Israel trusted (2Ki 16:7-10; Isa 39:3-7; Hos 7:8-10). By becoming a party to the treaty, Israel broke its covenant with God and so brought Gods judgment upon itself (Hos 7:11-13; Hos 8:8-10; see COVENANT).
Fuente: Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
Treaty
treti (, berth, , karath berth, make a covenant, league, treaty): Although the Israelites were forbidden to make treaties, or enter into covenant, with the Canaanites because of the risk thereby involved of religious apostasy and moral contamination (Exo 23:32; Exo 34:12; Deu 7:2; Jdg 2:2), they were so situated in the midst of the nations that treaty relations of some sort with their neighbors were from time to time inevitable. After the rise of the monarchy, treaties were common. David and Solomon had friendly relations with Hiram, king of Tyre (1Ki 5:15 ff); Asa, to rid himself of the hostile approaches of Baasha, king of Israel, entered into a league with Ben-hadad of Syria, which the prophet Hanani denounced (2Ch 16:1 ff); Ahab entered into a similar compact with Ben-hadad’s son and successor, and set him at liberty when he was his prisoner of war (1Ki 20:34); and at a later time Jehoshaphat joined Ahab in an expedition against Ben-hadad II to Ramoth-gilead in which Ahab lost his life (1 Ki 22). Sometimes with Syria and neighboring states against the terrible Assyrian power, and sometimes with Egypt against Assyria or Babylon, the kings of Israel and Judah entered into treaty to resist their advances and to preserve their own independence (2Ki 17:4; Hos 7:11; Isa 30:1). Against such alliances the prophets raised their testimony (Isa 31:1; Jer 27:3 ff). See also WAR, 9.; ROME, V, 1.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Treaty
Between nations:
– Israelites and Gibeonites
Jos 9:3-15
– Judah and Syria
1Ki 15:19
Cession of territory by
1Ki 9:10-14; 1Ki 20:34
Sacredness of
Jos 9:16-21; Jos 2:8-21
Reciprocity
1Ki 5:1-12
With idolatrous nations forbidden
Exo 34:12; Exo 34:15