Joshua 9:8

And they said to Joshua, We are your servants. Then Joshua said to them, Who are you and where do you come from?

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In The King James Version

And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye?

In Context

7And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, It may be that you are living among us; how then may we make an agreement with you?

9And they said to him, Your servants have come from a very far country, because of the name of the Lord your God: for the story of his great name, and of all he did in Egypt has come to our ears,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 20:11And if it gives you back an answer of peace, opening its doors to you, then all the people in it may be put to forced work as your servants.

Joshua 9:23Now 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.

Joshua 9:27And that day Joshua made them servants, cutting wood and getting water for the people and for the altar of the Lord, in the place marked out by him, to this day.

1 Kings 9:20As for the rest of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not children of Israel;

Matthew Henry on Joshua 9:4-15

The Artifice of the Gibeonites. ( b. c. 1450.) 3 And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai, 4 They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up; 5 And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy. 6 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel,… Read the whole commentary →

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