Verse 6

They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, We are come from a far country: now therefore make you a covenant with us.

Referenced Verses

• Josh 5:10 : 10 The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal; and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
• 2 Kgs 20:14 : 14 Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What said these men? and from whence came they to you? Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.
• Deut 20:11-15 : 11 It shall be, if it make you answer of peace, and open to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you. 12 If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it: 13 and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword: 14 but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, shall you take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you. 15 Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
• Josh 9:9 : 9 They said to him, From a very far country your servants are come because of the name of Yahweh your God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
• Josh 10:43 : 43 Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.
• 1 Kgs 8:41 : 41 Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for your name's sake