Joshua 9:6

They 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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And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us.

In Context

5with old patched sandals on their feet and old clothes on their bodies. The bread they took was all dry and crumbling.

7‘The Israelites said to these Hivites, “Perhaps you live in our country, so why should we make a treaty with you?”

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Cross References

Joshua 4:19It was on the tenth day of the first month that the people came up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern side of Jericho.

Joshua 9:9“From a country very far away,” they said, “and we have come on account of the Lord, your God, for we have heard of his fame, of all he did in Egypt,

Joshua 10:43Then Joshua and the Israelites returned to camp at Gilgal.

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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