Joshua 9:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So the responsible men and all the people of our country said to us, Take food with you for the journey and go to them, and say to them, We are your servants: so now make an agreement with us.

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  • Esth 8:17 : 17 And in every part of the kingdom and in every town, wherever the king's letter and his order came, the Jews were glad with great joy, and had a feast and a good day. And a great number of the people of the land became Jews: for the fear of the Jews had come on them.
  • Josh 9:8 : 8 And they said to Joshua, We are your servants. Then Joshua said to them, Who are you and where do you come from?
  • Matt 10:9-9 : 9 Take no gold or silver or copper in your pockets; 10 Take no bag for your journey and do not take two coats or shoes or a stick: for the workman has a right to his food.
  • Luke 9:3 : 3 And he said to them, Take nothing for your journey, no stick or bag or bread or money, and do not take two coats.
  • Gen 43:12 : 12 And take your brother and go back to the man:
  • Josh 1:11 : 11 Go through the tents and give orders to the people, saying, Get ready a store of food; for in three days you are to go over this river Jordan and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 9:5-10
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    82%

    5And put old stitched-up shoes on their feet, and old clothing on their backs; and all the food they had with them was dry and broken up.

    6And they came to Joshua to the tent-circle at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, We have come from a far country: so now make an agreement with us.

    7And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, It may be that you are living among us; how then may we make an agreement with you?

    8And they said to Joshua, We are your servants. Then Joshua said to them, Who are you and where do you come from?

    9And they said to him, Your servants have come from a very far country, because of the name of the Lord your God: for the story of his great name, and of all he did in Egypt has come to our ears,

    10And what he did to the two kings of the Amorites east of Jordan, to Sihon, king of Heshbon, and to Og, king of Bashan, at Ashtaroth.

  • Josh 9:12-16
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    12This bread which we have with us for our food, we took warm and new from our houses when starting on our journey to you; but now see, it has become dry and broken up.

    13And these wine-skins were new when we put the wine in them, and now they are cracked as you see; and our clothing and our shoes have become old because of our very long journey here.

    14And the men took some of their food, without requesting directions from the Lord.

    15So Joshua made peace with them, and made an agreement with them that they were not to be put to death: and the chiefs of the people took an oath to them.

    16Now three days after, when they had made this agreement with them, they had word that these men were their neighbours, living near them.

  • Josh 9:24-25
    2 verses
    76%

    24And, answering Joshua, they said, Because it came to the ears of your servants that the Lord your God had given orders to his servant Moses to give you all this land, and to send destruction on all the people living in it, because of you; so, fearing greatly for our lives because of you, we have done this.

    25And now we are in your hands: do to us whatever seems good and right to you.

  • Deut 1:19-20
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    19Then we went on from Horeb, through all that great and cruel waste which you saw, on our way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the Lord gave us orders; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

    20And I said to you, You have come to the hill-country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us.

  • Deut 1:25
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    25And taking in their hands some of the fruit of the land, they came down again to us, and gave us their account, saying, It is a good land which the Lord our God is giving us.

  • Deut 1:22
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    22And you came near to me, every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us to go through the land with care and give us an account of the way we are to go and the towns to which we will come.

  • 1 Sam 11:1
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    1Then about a month after this, Nahash the Ammonite came up and put his forces in position for attacking Jabesh-gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make an agreement with us and we will be your servants.

  • Deut 2:29
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    29As the children of Esau did for me in Seir and the Moabites in Ar; till I have gone over Jordan into the land which the Lord our God is giving us.

  • Deut 29:7
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    7When you came to this place, Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, came out to make war against us and we overcame them:

  • Judg 11:19
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    19And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, Let me now go through your land to my place.

  • Josh 9:22
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    22Then Joshua sent for them, and said to them, Why have you been false to us, saying, We are very far from you, when you are living among us?

  • Josh 2:9-10
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    9And said to them, It is clear to me that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has come on us;

    10For we have had news of how the Lord made the Red Sea dry before you when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, on the other side of Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you gave up to the curse.

  • Josh 1:16
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    16Then they said to Joshua in answer, Whatever you say to us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.

  • Josh 24:17-18
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    17For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went:

    18And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be the servants of the Lord, for he is our God.

  • Num 14:9
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    9Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them.

  • Deut 2:26
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    26Then from the waste land of Kedemoth I sent representatives to Sihon, king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying,

  • Deut 1:7
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    7Make a move now, and go on your way into the hill-country of the Amorites and the places near it, in the Arabah and the hill-country and in the lowlands and in the South and by the seaside, all the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

  • Judg 11:8
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    8And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, That is the reason we have come back to you; so go with us and make war against the children of Ammon, and we will make you our head over all the people of Gilead.

  • Deut 3:7
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    7But we took for ourselves all the cattle and the stored wealth of the towns.

  • 1 Sam 14:9
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    9If they say to us, Keep quiet where you are till we come to you; then we will keep our places and not go up to them.

  • Deut 26:9
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    9And he has been our guide to this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Neh 9:36
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    36Now, today, we are servants, and as for the land which you gave to our fathers, so that the produce of it and the good might be theirs, see, we are servants in it:

  • Josh 9:19-20
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    72%

    19But all the chiefs said to the people, We have taken an oath to them by the Lord, the God of Israel, and so we may not put our hands on them.

    20This is what we will do to them: we will not put them to death, for fear that wrath may come on us because of our oath to them.

  • Judg 11:6
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    6And they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief so that we may make war against the children of Ammon.

  • Deut 10:11
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    11Then the Lord said to me, Get up and go on your journey before the people, so that they may go in and take the land which I said in my oath to their fathers that I would give them.

  • Num 21:21-22
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    21And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,

    22Let me go through your land: we will not go into field or vine-garden, or take the water of the springs; we will go by the highway till we have gone past the limits of your land.

  • Deut 29:9
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    9So keep the words of this agreement and do them, so that it may be well for you in everything you do.

  • 2 Chr 20:11
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    11See now, how as our reward they have come to send us out of your land which you have given us as our heritage.

  • Gen 26:28
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    28And they said, We saw clearly that the Lord was with you: so we said, Let there be an oath between us and you, and let us make an agreement with you;

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    14And you made answer and said to me, It is good for us to do as you say.

  • Neh 9:15
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    15And you gave them bread from heaven when they were in need, and made water come out of the rock for their drink, and gave them orders to go in and take for their heritage the land which your hand had been lifted up to give them.

  • Deut 5:2
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    2The Lord our God made an agreement with us in Horeb.

  • Deut 2:36
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    36From Aroer on the edge of the valley of the Arnon and from the town in the valley as far as Gilead, no town was strong enough to keep us out; the Lord our God gave them all into our hands:

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    16Then they came to him, and said, We will make safe places for our cattle here, and towns for our little ones;