Joshua 9:12

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This bread of ours was warm when we took it as provisions from our houses on the day we set out to come to you, but now it is dry and crumbled.

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  • Josh 9:4-5 : 4 they also acted with cunning. They disguised themselves as messengers, taking worn-out sacks for their donkeys, old and torn wineskins that had been mended. 5 They wore patched and worn-out sandals and clothes, and all the bread they carried as provisions was dry and crumbled.

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  • Josh 9:13
    85%

    13These wineskins were new when we filled them, but see how they have burst. Our clothes and sandals are worn out from the very long journey.”

  • Josh 9:4-6
    3 verses
    84%

    4they also acted with cunning. They disguised themselves as messengers, taking worn-out sacks for their donkeys, old and torn wineskins that had been mended.

    5They wore patched and worn-out sandals and clothes, and all the bread they carried as provisions was dry and crumbled.

    6They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel: “We have come from a distant land; now make a treaty with us.”

  • Josh 9:11
    81%

    11So our elders and all the inhabitants of our land told us, ‘Take provisions for the journey and go to meet them. Tell them: We are your servants; now make a treaty with us.’

  • Num 11:6
    76%

    6But now our appetite is gone; there’s nothing to see but this manna!

  • Lam 5:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9We risk our lives to bring in our bread because of the sword in the wilderness.

    10Our skin is hot as an oven, burned from the raging heat of famine.

  • Exod 12:34
    72%

    34So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls wrapped in their clothes and carried on their shoulders.

  • Exod 16:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14When the dew evaporated, there was a fine, flaky substance on the surface of the wilderness, as fine as frost on the ground.

    15When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, "What is it?" because they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.

  • Exod 12:39
    71%

    39They baked the dough they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened cakes, for it had not risen because they were driven out of Egypt and could not delay, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.

  • Num 11:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8The people went around gathering it, ground it in handmills or crushed it in mortars, cooked it in pots, and made it into cakes. It tasted like a cake baked with the richness of oil.

    9When the dew came down on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

  • Deut 1:25
    70%

    25Taking with them some of the fruit of the land, they brought it back to us. And they reported, 'The land that the LORD our God is giving us is good.'

  • Exod 16:31-32
    2 verses
    70%

    31The house of Israel named it manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.

    32Moses said, "This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Let an omer of it be kept for future generations so that they can see the bread I gave you to eat in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.'"

  • Deut 1:19
    70%

    19Then we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us. And we came to Kadesh-barnea.

  • Lam 5:6
    69%

    6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

  • 1 Sam 17:17
    69%

    17Jesse said to his son David, 'Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.'

  • 2 Sam 17:28-29
    2 verses
    69%

    28They brought bedding, bowls, clay utensils, wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils, and more roasted grain.

    29They also brought honey, butter, sheep, and cheese from cattle for David and the people with him to eat. They said, 'The people are hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.'

  • John 6:31
    69%

    31'Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: "He gave them bread from heaven to eat."'

  • Num 21:5
    69%

    5The people spoke against God and Moses: 'Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, no water, and we detest this miserable food!'

  • Neh 5:3
    69%

    3Others were saying, 'We have had to mortgage our fields, vineyards, and houses to get grain during the famine.'

  • Exod 16:21
    68%

    21Each morning, everyone gathered as much as they needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.

  • 1 Sam 21:6
    68%

    6David replied to the priest, 'Indeed women have been kept away from us, as usual whenever I set out. The bodies of the young men are holy even on ordinary missions, and all the more today.'

  • 1 Sam 9:7
    68%

    7Saul said to his servant, "If we go, what can we give the man? The bread in our bags is gone, and we have no gift to bring to the man of God. What do we have?"

  • Exod 16:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the LORD's hand in the land of Egypt, where we sat by pots of meat and ate bread until we were full! But you brought us into this wilderness to kill this entire assembly with hunger."

    4Then the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I am going to rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way, I will test them to see whether they will follow my instructions or not.

  • Neh 9:15
    68%

    15You provided bread from heaven for their hunger and brought water out of a rock for their thirst. You told them to go in and take possession of the land You had sworn to give them.

  • Neh 9:36
    68%

    36Here we are today, slaves in the land You gave to our ancestors so they could enjoy its fruit and its goodness—here we are, slaves in it!

  • Exod 16:23-24
    2 verses
    68%

    23He said to them, "This is what the LORD has said: 'Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil today, and save whatever is left over to keep until morning.'"

    24So they saved it until morning as Moses commanded, and it did not stink or have maggots in it.

  • Josh 5:11
    68%

    11The day after the Passover, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain on that very day.

  • Joel 1:17
    68%

    17The seeds shrivel beneath their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the granaries are broken down, for the grain has dried up.

  • Jer 35:9
    68%

    9We do not build houses to live in, or own vineyards, fields, or seed.

  • Judg 19:19
    68%

    19We have straw and feed for our donkeys, as well as bread and wine for me, your servant, for the woman with me, and for the young man who is with your servants. We lack nothing."

  • 1 Kgs 13:9
    68%

    9'For this is the command the LORD gave me by His word: You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.'

  • Gen 18:5
    67%

    5And let me get a piece of bread so you may refresh yourselves, and after that, you may go on your way—since you have come to your servant. And they said, 'Very well, do as you have said.'

  • Lev 26:10
    67%

    10You will eat the old supply long stored, and you will clear out the old to make room for the new.

  • Deut 26:9
    67%

    9He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Ezek 4:9
    67%

    9Take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in one container, and make bread for yourself. For the number of days that you lie on your side—three hundred ninety days—you will eat it.

  • Ezek 4:12-13
    2 verses
    67%

    12Eat it as you would a barley cake, baking it over human dung in their sight.

    13The Lord said, 'In this way the people of Israel will eat their defiled bread among the nations where I will drive them.'

  • Deut 29:5
    67%

    5You did not eat bread or drink wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

  • Ezra 4:14
    67%

    14Now, because we eat the salt of the palace and it is not fitting for us to witness the king’s dishonor, we are sending this message to inform the king.

  • Deut 16:3
    67%

    3Do not eat leavened bread with it. For seven days, eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left Egypt in haste. This is so that you may remember the day you came out of Egypt all the days of your life.

  • Jer 52:6
    67%

    6By the fourth month, on the ninth day, the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no more food for the people of the land.

  • Gen 43:2
    67%

    2When they had finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy a little more food for us.”