Joshua 9:8

“We are your servants,” they replied. “But who are you? Where do you come from?” Joshua asked.

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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

7But the Israelites said to the Hivites, “Maybe you live close by. If you do, we cannot make a treaty with you.”

9“Your servants have come from a land far away,” they replied. “For we have heard of the reputation of the Lord your God, and reports of all that he did in Egypt,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 20:11If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates to you, all the inhabitants will become your slave-laborers.

Joshua 9:23Consequently you are under a curse. From now on you shall forever be servants, woodcutters and water-carriers for the house of my God.”

Joshua 9:27That day Joshua made them woodcutters and water-carriers in service to the entire assembly and for the altar of the Lord wherever the Lord should choose. That is what they do right up to this very day.

1 Kings 9:20The descendants of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (people who were not Israelites)

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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