As for yourself, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.

so that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the Lord.”

In the morning they rose early and exchanged oaths, and Isaac set them on their way, and they departed from him in peace.

so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God,

Now Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but his sons were with his cattle in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came.

But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.

But he said, “Far be it from me that I should do so! Only the one in whose possession the cup was found shall be my slave, but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”

Moses Returns to Egypt

Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me go back to my own people in Egypt and see whether they are still living.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

If you do this and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will go to their homes in peace.”

And I will grant peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one shall make you afraid; I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword shall go through your land.

the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

Therefore say, ‘I hereby grant him my covenant of peace.

Defeat of King Sihon

“So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to King Sihon of Heshbon with the following terms of peace:

“When you draw near to a town to fight against it, offer it terms of peace.

If it accepts your terms of peace and surrenders to you, then all the people in it shall serve you at forced labor.

But if it does not accept your terms of peace and makes war against you, then you shall besiege it,

And Joshua made peace with them, guaranteeing their lives by a treaty, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.

The Sun Stands Still

When King Adoni-zedek of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai and had utterly destroyed it, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,

“Come up and help me, and let us attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and with the Israelites.”

There was not a town that made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon; all were taken in battle.

Now Sisera had fled away on foot to the tent of Jael wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between King Jabin of Hazor and the clan of Heber the Kenite.

But the Lord said to him, “Peace be to you; do not fear; you shall not die.”

Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, “The Lord is peace.” To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.

The king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel, on coming from Egypt, took away my land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now, therefore, restore it peaceably.”

The priest replied, “Go in peace. The mission you are on is under the eye of the Lord.”