Joshua 9:11
Our leaders and all who live in our land told us,‘Take provisions for your journey and go meet them. Tell them,“We are willing to be your subjects. Make a treaty with us.”’
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Referenced Verses
- Esth 8:17 : 17 Throughout every province and throughout every city where the king’s edict and his law arrived, the Jews experienced happiness and joy, banquets and holidays. Many of the resident peoples pretended to be Jews, because the fear of the Jews had overcome them.
- Josh 9:8 : 8 But they said to Joshua,“We are willing to be your subjects.” So Joshua said to them,“Who are you and where do you come from?”
- Matt 10:9-9 : 9 Do not take gold, silver, or copper in your belts, 10 no bag for the journey, or an extra tunic, or sandals or staff, for the worker deserves his provisions.
- Luke 9:3 : 3 He said to them,“Take nothing for your journey– no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, and do not take an extra tunic.
- Gen 43:12 : 12 Take double the money with you; you must take back the money that was returned in the mouths of your sacks– perhaps it was an oversight.
- Josh 1:11 : 11 “Go through the camp and command the people,‘Prepare your supplies, for within three days you will cross the Jordan River and begin the conquest of the land the LORD your God is ready to hand over to you.’”
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- Josh 9:5-106 verses82%
5 They had worn-out, patched sandals on their feet and dressed in worn-out clothes. All their bread was dry and hard.
6 They came to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel,“We have come from a distant land. Make a treaty with us.”
7 The men of Israel said to the Hivites,“Perhaps you live near us. So how can we make a treaty with you?”
8 But they said to Joshua,“We are willing to be your subjects.” So Joshua said to them,“Who are you and where do you come from?”
9 They told him,“Your subjects have come from a very distant land because of the reputation of the LORD your God, for we have heard the news about all he did in Egypt
10 and all he did to the two Amorite kings on the other side of the Jordan– King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan in Ashtaroth.
- Josh 9:12-165 verses81%
12 This bread of ours was warm when we packed it in our homes the day we started out to meet you, but now it is dry and hard.
13 These wineskins we filled were brand new, but look how they have ripped. Our clothes and sandals have worn out because it has been a very long journey.”
14 The men examined some of their provisions, but they failed to ask the LORD’s advice.
15 Joshua made a peace treaty with them and agreed to let them live. The leaders of the community sealed it with an oath.
16 Three days after they made the treaty with them, the Israelites found out they were from the local area and lived nearby.
- Josh 9:24-252 verses76%
24 They said to Joshua,“It was carefully reported to your subjects how the LORD your God commanded Moses his servant to assign you the whole land and to destroy all who live in the land from before you. Because of you we were terrified we would lose our lives, so we did this thing.
25 So now we are in your power. Do to us what you think is good and appropriate.”
- Deut 1:19-202 verses75%
19 Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the LORD our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.
20 Then I said to you,“You have come to the Amorite hill country which the LORD our God is about to give us.
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25 Then they took some of the produce of the land and carried it back down to us. They also brought a report to us, saying,“The land that the LORD our God is about to give us is good.”
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22 So all of you approached me and said,“Let’s send some men ahead of us to scout out the land and bring us back word as to how we should attack it and what the cities are like there.”
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1 Saul Comes to the Aid of Jabesh Nahash the Ammonite marched against Jabesh Gilead. All the men of Jabesh Gilead said to Nahash,“Make a treaty with us and we will serve you.”
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29 just as the descendants of Esau who live at Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land the LORD our God is giving us.”
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7 When you came to this place King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to make war and we defeated them.
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19 Israel sent messengers to King Sihon, the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him,“Please allow us to pass through your land to our land.”
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22 Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said to them,“Why did you trick us by saying,‘We live far away from you,’ when you really live nearby?
- Josh 2:9-102 verses74%
9 She said to the men,“I know the LORD is handing this land over to you. We are absolutely terrified of you, and all who live in the land are cringing before you.
10 For we heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you left Egypt and how you annihilated the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og, on the other side of the Jordan.
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16 They told Joshua,“We will do everything you say. We will go wherever you send us.
- Josh 24:17-182 verses73%
17 For the LORD our God took us and our fathers out of slavery in the land of Egypt and performed these awesome miracles before our very eyes. He continually protected us as we traveled and when we passed through nations.
18 The LORD drove out from before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. So we too will worship the LORD, for he is our God!”
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9 Only do not rebel against the LORD, and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection has turned aside from them, but the LORD is with us. Do not fear them!”
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26 Defeat of Sihon, King of Heshbon Then I sent messengers from the Kedemoth wilderness to King Sihon of Heshbon with an offer of peace:
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7 Head out and resume your journey. Enter the Amorite hill country, and into all its neighboring areas, including the rift valley, the hill country, the foothills, the Negev, and the coastal plain– all of Canaan and Lebanon as far as the Great River, that is, the Euphrates.
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8 The leaders of Gilead said to Jephthah,“That may be true, but now we pledge to you our loyalty. Come with us and fight with the Ammonites. Then you will become the leader of all who live in Gilead.”
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7 But all the livestock and plunder from the cities we kept for ourselves.
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9 If they say to us,‘Stay put until we approach you,’ we will stay right there and not go up to them.
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9 Then he brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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36 “So today we are slaves! In the very land you gave to our ancestors to eat its fruit and to enjoy its good things– we are slaves!
- Josh 9:19-202 verses72%
19 but all the leaders told the whole community,“We swore an oath to them in the name of the LORD God of Israel. So now we can’t hurt them!
20 We must let them live so we can escape the curse attached to the oath we swore to them.”
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6 They said,“Come, be our commander, so we can fight with the Ammonites.”
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11 Then he said to me,“Get up, set out leading the people so they may go and possess the land I promised to give to their ancestors.”
- Num 21:21-222 verses72%
21 The Victory over Sihon and Og Then Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, saying,
22 “Let us pass through your land; we will not turn aside into the fields or into the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well, but we will go along the King’s Highway until we pass your borders.”
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9 The Present Covenant Setting“Therefore, keep the terms of this covenant and obey them so that you may be successful in everything you do.
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11 Look how they are repaying us! They come to drive us out of our allotted land which you assigned to us!
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28 They replied,“We could plainly see that the LORD is with you. So we decided there should be a pact between us– between us and you. Allow us to make a treaty with you
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14 You replied to me that what I had said to you was good.
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15 You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.
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2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
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36 From Aroer, which is at the edge of Wadi Arnon(it is the city in the wadi), all the way to Gilead there was not a town able to resist us– the LORD our God gave them all to us.
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16 The Offer of the Reubenites and Gadites Then they came very close to him and said,“We will build sheep folds here for our flocks and cities for our families,