Joshua 9:8

But they said to Josue: We are thy servants. Josue said to them: Who are you? and whence came you?

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

7Perhaps you dwell in the land which falls to our lot; if so, we can make no league with you.

9They answered: From a very far country thy servants are come in the name of the Lord thy God. For we have heard the fame of his power, all the things that he did in Egypt.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 20:11If they receive it, and open the gates to thee, all the people that are therein, shall be saved, and shall serve thee paying tribute.

Joshua 9:23Therefore you shall be under a curse, and your race shall always be hewers of wood, and carriers of water unto the house of my God.

Joshua 9:27And he gave orders in that day that they should be in the service of all the people, and of the altar of the Lord, hewing wood and carrying water, until this present time, in the place which the Lord hath chosen.

1 Kings 9:20All the people that were left of the Amorrhites, and Hethites, and Pherezites, and Hevites, and Jebusites, that are not of the 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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