Joshua 9:22

World English Bible (2000)

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?

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  • Josh 9:6 : 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."
  • Josh 9:16 : 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.
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
  • Josh 9:9-9 : 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.
  • Gen 3:13-14 : 13 Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate." 14 Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
  • Gen 27:35-36 : 35 He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing." 36 He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"
  • Gen 27:41-45 : 41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob." 42 The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you. 43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran. 44 Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away; 45 until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"
  • Gen 29:25 : 25 It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"

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  • Josh 9:23-27
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    81%

    23Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be bondservants, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God."

    24They 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.

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

    26He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn't kill them.

    27That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place which he should choose.

  • Josh 9:6-9
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    6They 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."

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

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

    9They 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,

  • Josh 9:19-21
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    19But 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.

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

    21The princes said to them, "Let them live, so they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them."

  • Josh 9:15-16
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    75%

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

    16It 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 9:11
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    11Our 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."'

  • Josh 22:1-2
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    1Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,

    2and said to them, "You have kept all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you.

  • Josh 24:21-24
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    21The people said to Joshua, "No; but we will serve Yahweh."

    22Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him." They said, "We are witnesses."

    23"Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel."

    24The people said to Joshua, "We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice."

  • Josh 9:2-3
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    2that they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.

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

  • Josh 7:7
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    7Joshua said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!

  • Josh 3:9-10
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    9Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God."

    10Joshua said, "Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.

  • Josh 7:9
    72%

    9For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?"

  • Josh 8:15-16
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    15Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

    16All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

  • Josh 1:16
    71%

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

  • Josh 1:12
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    12Joshua spoke to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, saying,

  • Josh 6:22
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    22Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the prostitute's house, and bring out from there the woman and all that she has, as you swore to her."

  • Josh 5:13
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    13It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him, and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?"

  • Josh 1:10
    70%

    10Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,

  • Josh 8:9
    70%

    9Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.

  • Josh 20:1
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    1Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

  • Josh 22:15
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    15They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,

  • Josh 23:2
    69%

    2that Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, "I am old and well advanced in years.

  • Josh 7:11
    69%

    11Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.

  • Josh 8:4
    69%

    4He commanded them, saying, "Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don't go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

  • Josh 2:23
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    23Then the two men returned, descended from the mountain, passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had happened to them.