Joshua 9:22

Then Joshua sent for them, and said to them, Why have you been false to us, saying, We are very far from you, when you are living among us?

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In The King James Version

And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among us?

In Context

21Keep them living, and let them be servants, cutting wood and getting water for all the people. And all the people did as the chiefs had said to them.

23Now because of this you are cursed, and you will for ever be our servants, cutting wood and getting water for the house of my God.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:13And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.

Genesis 27:41So Esau was full of hate for Jacob because of his father's blessing; and he said in his heart, The days of weeping for my father are near; then I will put my brother Jacob to death.

Joshua 9:6And they came to Joshua to the tent-circle at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, We have come from a far country: so now make an agreement with us.

Joshua 9:16Now three days after, when they had made this agreement with them, they had word that these men were their neighbours, living near them.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 9:16-22

The League with the Gibeonites. ( b. c. 1450.) 15 And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them. 16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them. 17 And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim. 18… Read the whole commentary →

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