Joshua 9:8

And they said to Joshua, We are your servants: and Joshua said to them, Whence are you⌃, and whence have you⌃ come?

LXX2012 (US English)

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 children of Israel said to the Chorrhaean, Peradventure you dwell among us; and how should I make a covenant with you?

9And they said, Your servants are come from a very far country in the name of the Lord your God: for we have heard his name, and all that he did in Egypt,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 20:11If then they should answer peaceably to you, and open to you, it shall be that all the people found in it shall be tributary and subject to you.

Joshua 9:23And now you⌃ are cursed: there shall not fail of you a slave, or a hewer of wood, or a drawer of water to me and my God.

Joshua 9:27-29 And Joshua made them in that day hewers of wood and drawers of water to the whole congregation, and for the altar of God: therefore the inhabitants of Gabaon became hewers of wood and drawers of water for the altar of God until this day, even for the place which the Lord should choose. + 9:27-29 The following verses are additions to Brenton's text from the alexandrine codex. Verses after 33 appear only in the Hebrew text.

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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