Joshua 9:11

World English Bible (2000)

Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, 'Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, "We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us."'

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  • Esth 8:17 : 17 In every province, and in every city, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast, and a good day. Many from among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen on them.
  • Josh 9:8 : 8 They said to Joshua, "We are your servants." Joshua said to them, "Who are you? Where do you come from?"
  • Matt 10:9-9 : 9 Don't take any gold, nor silver, nor brass in your money belts. 10 Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.
  • Luke 9:3 : 3 He said to them, "Take nothing for your journey--neither staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats apiece.
  • Gen 43:12 : 12 and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.
  • Josh 1:11 : 11 "Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying, 'Prepare food; for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.'"

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 9:5-10
    6 verses
    82%

    5 and old and patched shoes on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their provision was dry and moldy.

    6 They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, "We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us."

    7 The men of Israel said to the Hivites, "What if you live among us. How could we make a covenant with you?"

    8 They said to Joshua, "We are your servants." Joshua said to them, "Who are you? Where do you come from?"

    9 They said to him, "Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,

    10 and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.

  • Josh 9:12-16
    5 verses
    81%

    12 This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we went out to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and has become moldy.

    13 These wineskins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our shoes have become old because of the very long journey."

    14 The men sampled their provisions, and didn't ask counsel from the mouth of Yahweh.

    15 Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.

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

  • Josh 9:24-25
    2 verses
    76%

    24 They answered Joshua, and said, "Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

    25 Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do."

  • Deut 1:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19 We traveled from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.

    20 I said to you, "You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our God gives to us.

  • Deut 1:25
    75%

    25 They took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, "It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to us."

  • Deut 1:22
    75%

    22 You came near to me everyone of you, and said, "Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come."

  • 1 Sam 11:1
    75%

    1 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you."

  • Deut 2:29
    74%

    29 as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us."

  • Deut 29:7
    74%

    7 When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them:

  • Judg 11:19
    74%

    19 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, 'Please let us pass through your land to my place.'

  • Josh 9:22
    74%

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

  • Josh 2:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 and she said to the men, "I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

    10 For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

  • Josh 1:16
    74%

    16 They answered Joshua, saying, "All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.

  • Josh 24:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 for it is Yahweh our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed.

    18 Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God."

  • Num 14:9
    73%

    9 Only don't rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don't fear them."

  • Deut 2:26
    72%

    26 I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

  • Deut 1:7
    72%

    7 turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all [the places] near there, in the Arabah, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the seashore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

  • Judg 11:8
    72%

    8 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon; and you shall be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."

  • Deut 3:7
    72%

    7 But all the livestock, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.

  • 1 Sam 14:9
    72%

    9 If they say thus to us, 'Wait until we come to you!' then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up to them.

  • Deut 26:9
    72%

    9 and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Neh 9:36
    72%

    36 "Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.

  • Josh 9:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19 But all the princes said to all the congregation, "We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.

    20 This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them."

  • Judg 11:6
    72%

    6 and they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon."

  • Deut 10:11
    72%

    11 Yahweh said to me, "Arise, take your journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give to them."

  • Num 21:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

    22 "Let me pass through your land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed your border."

  • Deut 29:9
    72%

    9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

  • 2 Chr 20:11
    72%

    11 behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.

  • Gen 26:28
    72%

    28 They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,

  • Deut 1:14
    71%

    14 You answered me, and said, "The thing which you have spoken is good [for us] to do."

  • Neh 9:15
    71%

    15 and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.

  • Deut 5:2
    71%

    2 Yahweh our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

  • Deut 2:36
    71%

    36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and [from] the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Yahweh our God delivered up all before us:

  • Num 32:16
    71%

    16 They came near to him, and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones: