Joshua 9:25

Well, we are in your power! Whatever you think right and fair to do to us, do it.”

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In The King James Version

And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.

In Context

24They answered Joshua, “It was because we, your servants, were assured that the Lord your God had ordered his servant Moses to assign you all the land and to destroy all the people living in it. That put us in terror of our lives before you, and so we did this.

26This then, was how Joshua treated them: he saved them from the Israelites and kept them from being murdered,

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Matthew Henry on Joshua 9:23-27

The Gibeonites Made Bondmen. ( b. c. 1450.) 22 And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among us? 23 Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God. 24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the Lord thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to… Read the whole commentary →

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