Joshua 9:14

So the Israelites tried some of their provisions, never asking the Lord for advice.

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In The King James Version

And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD.

In Context

13These wineskins were new when we filled them, and you see they are torn. These clothes and shoes of ours are worn out, owing to the long journey.”

15Joshua made peace with them and made a treaty with them to spare their lives, and the leaders of the community swore an oath to them.

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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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