Joshua 9:5

with old patched sandals on their feet and old clothes on their bodies. The bread they took was all dry and crumbling.

Open English Bible (US)

In The King James Version

And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.

In Context

4they went to work craftily. They took provisions in old sacks on their donkeys, and old mended wineskins,

6They went to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal and said to him and to the Israelites, “We have come from a far country. Please make a treaty with us.”

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Cross References

Luke 15:22But the father turned to his servants and said ‘Be quick and fetch a robe – the very best – and put it on him; give him a ring for his finger and sandals for his 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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