Joshua 9:13

And these are the skins of wine which we filled when new, and they are rent; and our garments and our shoes are worn out because of the very long journey.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.

In Context

12These are the loaves—we took them hot for our journey on the day on which we came out to come to you; and now they are dried and become moldy.

14And the chiefs took of their provision, and asked not counsel of the Lord.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:5And he led you forty years in the wilderness; your garments did not grow old, and your sandals were not worn away off your feet.

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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