Joshua 9:8

“We are at your service,” they said to Joshua. “But who are you,” Joshua asked, “and where do you come from?”

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In The King James Version

And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye?

In Context

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

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,

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Cross References

Joshua 9:23A curse on you! You will forever provide us with slaves for the temple of my God, woodcutters and watercarriers.”

Joshua 9:27but he made them that day woodcutters and watercarriers for the community and for the altar of the Lord, wherever the Lord chooses. As they still are.

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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