Joshua 9:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

They acted craftily, and went and pretended to be ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and wine bottles, old, torn, and bound up;

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  • Mark 2:22 : 22 And no man puts new wine into old wineskins, otherwise the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.
  • Luke 5:37-38 : 37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. 38 But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.
  • Luke 16:8 : 8 And the master commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
  • Gen 34:13 : 13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, because he had defiled Dinah, their sister,
  • 1 Kgs 20:31-33 : 31 And his servants said to him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray you, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: perhaps he will save your life. 32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Your servant Benhadad says, I pray you, let me live. And he said, Is he still alive? he is my brother. 33 Now the men diligently observed whether anything would come from him, and hastily caught it: and they said, Your brother Benhadad. Then he said, Go, bring him. Then Benhadad came forth to him; and he brought him up into the chariot.
  • Ps 119:83 : 83 For I have become like a wineskin in smoke, yet I do not forget Your statutes.
  • Matt 9:17 : 17 Neither do men put new wine into old wineskins: else the wineskins break, and the wine runs out, and the wineskins perish: but they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.
  • Matt 10:16 : 16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: therefore, be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

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  • Josh 9:5-6
    2 verses
    83%

    5And patched up old shoes on their feet, and old garments on them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and moldy.

    6And they went to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, We have come from a far country: now therefore make a treaty with us.

  • Josh 9:2-3
    2 verses
    82%

    2That they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.

    3And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

  • Josh 9:11-14
    4 verses
    76%

    11Therefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take provisions with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, We are your servants: therefore now make a treaty with us.

    12This bread of ours we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go to you; but now, see, it is dry and moldy:

    13And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and look, they are torn: and these garments and our shoes have become old because of the very long journey.

    14And the men took some of their provisions, and did not ask counsel from the mouth of the LORD.

  • Gen 44:11-13
    3 verses
    71%

    11Then they quickly took down each man his sack to the ground, and opened each man's sack.

    12And he searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

    13Then they tore their clothes, and loaded every man his donkey, and returned to the city.

  • Josh 8:15
    70%

    15And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

  • Gen 42:26
    69%

    26And they loaded their donkeys with the grain, and departed from there.

  • Josh 9:16-17
    2 verses
    69%

    16And it happened at the end of three days after they had made a treaty with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.

    17And the children of Israel journeyed and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.

  • Josh 10:1
    69%

    1Now it happened, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai and utterly destroyed it—just as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king—and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,

  • Exod 12:34
    69%

    34And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound in their clothes on their shoulders.

  • Josh 9:22
    68%

    22And Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, Why have you deceived us, saying, We are very far from you; when you dwell among us?

  • 1 Sam 25:18
    67%

    18Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves, two skins of wine, five sheep already prepared, five measures of roasted grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

  • Josh 2:22-23
    2 verses
    67%

    22And they went, and came unto the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not.

    23So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all things that befell them:

  • Josh 8:19
    67%

    19And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand; and they entered into the city and took it and hastened and set the city on fire.

  • Gen 44:2-3
    2 verses
    67%

    2And put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, along with his grain money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

    3As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.

  • Gen 34:28
    67%

    28They took their sheep, their oxen, and their donkeys, and what was in the city and what was in the field.

  • Josh 7:11
    66%

    11Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and deceived also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.

  • Josh 7:22-23
    2 verses
    66%

    22So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and, behold, it was hidden in his tent, and the silver under it.

    23And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them to Joshua, and to all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 7:7
    66%

    7Therefore they arose and fled at twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.

  • 2 Chr 28:15
    66%

    15And the men who were mentioned by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all who were naked among them, and dressed them, and shod them, and gave them food and drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble among them on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren. Then they returned to Samaria.

  • Josh 11:19
    66%

    19There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon: all others they took in battle.

  • 2 Kgs 4:39
    66%

    39And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered wild gourds, filling his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of stew: for they did not know them.

  • Josh 11:9
    66%

    9And Joshua did to them as the LORD commanded him: he hamstrung their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.

  • Josh 2:2
    66%

    2And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men here tonight from the children of Israel to search out the country.

  • Deut 1:24
    66%

    24And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came to the Valley of Eshcol, and explored it.

  • Josh 10:3-4
    2 verses
    66%

    3So Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,

    4Come up to me and help me, so that we may attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.

  • Josh 8:9
    66%

    9Joshua therefore sent them forth, and they went to lie in ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua lodged that night among the people.

  • Josh 8:12-13
    2 verses
    66%

    12And he took about five thousand men and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

    13And when they had set the people, even all the army that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

  • 2 Chr 14:15
    65%

    15They also attacked the tents of cattle and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 7:15
    65%

    15And they went after them to the Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.