Negotiation

Negotiation between peoples

Genesis 21:23; Luke 14:31–32 See also Joshua 9:6, Joshua 10:4; 1 Samuel 11:2; 2 Samuel 3:12–13; 1 Kings 15:19; 2 Kings 18:23 parallel Isaiah 36:8

Now, therefore, swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or descendants. Show to me and to the country in which you reside the same kindness that I have shown to you.”

Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand? And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off, to ask for terms of peace.

Negotiation in the buying of land

Genesis 23:8–9 See also Ruth 4:4; 2 Samuel 24:24; Jeremiah 32:8

“If you are willing for me to bury my dead,” he said to them, “listen to me, and approach Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site.”

Negotiation in the setting of wages

Genesis 29:15 See also Genesis 29:27, Genesis 30:32; Judges 17:10–11; 1 Kings 5:6; Matthew 20:2, Matthew 26:14–15 parallels Mark 14:10, Luke 22:4

Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”

Negotiation for personal safety

Joshua 2:12–13 See also Judges 15:12–13; 1 Samuel 20:8, 1 Samuel 30:15

Now therefore, please swear to me by the LORD that you will indeed show kindness to my family, because I showed kindness to you. Give me a sure sign that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and that you will deliver us from death.”