Joshua 9:4

World English Bible (2000)

they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and wineskins, old and torn and bound up,

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  • Mark 2:22 : 22 No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins."
  • Luke 5:37-38 : 37 No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. 38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.
  • Luke 16:8 : 8 "His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
  • Gen 34:13 : 13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
  • 1 Kgs 20:31-33 : 31 His servants said to him, "See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our bodies, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe he will save your life." 32 So they put sackcloth on their bodies and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, "Your servant Ben Hadad says, 'Please let me live.'" He said, "Is he still alive? He is my brother." 33 Now the men observed diligently, and hurried to take this phrase; and they said, "Your brother Ben Hadad." Then he said, "Go, bring him." Then Ben Hadad came out to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
  • Ps 119:83 : 83 For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don't forget your statutes.
  • Matt 9:17 : 17 Neither do people put new wine into old wineskins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved."
  • Matt 10:16 : 16 "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

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  • Josh 9:5-6
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    83%

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

    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."

  • Josh 9:2-3
    2 verses
    82%

    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 9:11-14
    4 verses
    76%

    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."'

    12This 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.

    13These 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."

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

  • Gen 44:11-13
    3 verses
    71%

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

    12He searched, beginning with the eldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

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

  • Josh 8:15
    70%

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

  • Gen 42:26
    69%

    26They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.

  • Josh 9:16-17
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    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.

    17The children of Israel traveled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

  • Josh 10:1
    69%

    1Now it happened when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; 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%

    34The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.

  • Josh 9:22
    68%

    22Joshua 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?

  • 1 Sam 25:18
    67%

    18Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five measures of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

  • Josh 2:22-23
    2 verses
    67%

    22They went, and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but didn't find them.

    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.

  • Josh 8:19
    67%

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

  • Gen 44:2-3
    2 verses
    67%

    2Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, with his grain money." 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 flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,

  • Josh 7:11
    66%

    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 7:22-23
    2 verses
    66%

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

    23They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before Yahweh.

  • 2 Kgs 7:7
    66%

    7Therefore they arose and fled in the 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%

    15The men who have been mentioned by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all who were naked among them, dressed them, gave them sandals, and gave them something to eat and to drink, anointed them, carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers. 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. They took all in battle.

  • 2 Kgs 4:39
    66%

    39One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of stew; for they didn't recognize them.

  • Josh 11:9
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    9Joshua did to them as Yahweh told him. He hamstrung their horses and burnt their chariots with fire.

  • Josh 2:2
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    2The king of Jericho was told, "Behold, men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land."

  • Deut 1:24
    66%

    24and they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.

  • Josh 10:3-4
    2 verses
    66%

    3Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,

    4"Come up to me, and help me, and let us strike Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel."

  • Josh 8:9
    66%

    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 8:12-13
    2 verses
    66%

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

    13So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

  • 2 Chr 14:15
    65%

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

  • 2 Kgs 7:15
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    15They went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.