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Joshua Chapter 9

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Joshua

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The Israelites gather at the Jordan to confront the remaining Amorite tribes that have not submitted, and they defeat them, securing their claim to the land. The chapter records the division of the territory among the tribes and the promise that God will keep the inheritance. It emphasizes God’s continued faithfulness in delivering His people to their promised land.

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(1) And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;
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Joshua 10:2Joshua 10:3Joshua 10:4Joshua 10:5Joshua 10:23Joshua 10:28Joshua 10:29Joshua 10:30Joshua 10:31Joshua 10:32Joshua 10:33Joshua 10:34

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Exodus 33:2Exodus 34:11Joshua 11:3Exodus 23:28Joshua 4:7II Kings 14:9

(2) That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
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II Chronicles 20:1II Chronicles 20:2II Chronicles 20:3II Chronicles 20:4II Chronicles 20:5II Chronicles 20:6II Chronicles 20:7II Chronicles 20:8II Chronicles 20:9II Chronicles 20:10II Chronicles 20:11II Chronicles 20:12

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Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32

(3) And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
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Joshua 9:17Joshua 10:2II Samuel 21:1II Samuel 21:2Joshua 6:1Joshua 6:2Joshua 6:3Joshua 6:4Joshua 6:5Joshua 6:6Joshua 6:7Joshua 6:8

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Joshua 10:1Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Joshua 7:2Joshua 8:9

(4) They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
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Genesis 34:13I Kings 20:31I Kings 20:32I Kings 20:33Matthew 10:16Luke 16:8Psalms 119:83Matthew 9:17Mark 2:22Luke 5:37Luke 5:38

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Mark 2:22Matthew 9:17Luke 5:37Joshua 9:13I Samuel 25:18Nehemiah 13:15

(5) And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
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Joshua 9:13Deuteronomy 29:5Deuteronomy 33:25Luke 15:22

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Exodus 29:21Leviticus 8:30Joshua 9:12Ezekiel 1:7Luke 7:38Ezekiel 44:19

(6) And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us.
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Joshua 5:10Joshua 10:43Joshua 9:9Deuteronomy 20:11Deuteronomy 20:12Deuteronomy 20:13Deuteronomy 20:14Deuteronomy 20:15I Kings 8:41II Kings 20:14

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Joshua 12:7Exodus 33:7Joshua 10:6Joshua 10:15Joshua 10:43

(7) And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?
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Joshua 11:19Genesis 10:17Genesis 34:2Exodus 3:8Exodus 23:31Exodus 23:32Exodus 23:33Exodus 34:12Numbers 33:52Deuteronomy 7:2Deuteronomy 7:3Deuteronomy 20:16

(8) And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye?
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Joshua 9:11Joshua 9:23Joshua 9:25Joshua 9:27Genesis 9:25Genesis 9:26Deuteronomy 20:11I Kings 9:20I Kings 9:21II Kings 10:5

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Deuteronomy 31:14Joshua 4:8Joshua 4:10Joshua 5:13Joshua 5:15Joshua 6:25

(9) And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
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Deuteronomy 20:15I Kings 8:41II Chronicles 6:32II Chronicles 6:33Nehemiah 9:5Psalms 72:19Psalms 83:18Psalms 148:13Isaiah 55:5Acts 8:7Joshua 9:24Joshua 2:9

(10) And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth.
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Numbers 21:24Numbers 21:25Numbers 21:26Numbers 21:27Numbers 21:28Numbers 21:29Numbers 21:30Numbers 21:31Numbers 21:32Numbers 21:33Numbers 21:34Numbers 21:35

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Deuteronomy 1:4Deuteronomy 4:46Deuteronomy 4:47Joshua 2:10Joshua 13:27Numbers 32:33

(11) Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: therefore now make ye a league with us.
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Esther 8:17Joshua 1:11Matthew 10:9Matthew 10:10Luke 9:3Genesis 43:12Joshua 9:8

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(12) This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:
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Joshua 9:4Joshua 9:5

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(13) And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
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(14) And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD.
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Exodus 28:30Numbers 27:21Judges 1:1Judges 20:18Judges 20:28I Samuel 14:18I Samuel 14:19I Samuel 22:10I Samuel 23:9I Samuel 23:10I Samuel 23:11I Samuel 23:12

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I Kings 3:11II Chronicles 1:11II Samuel 17:14

(15) And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.
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Joshua 2:12Joshua 2:13Joshua 2:14Joshua 2:15Joshua 2:16Joshua 2:17Joshua 2:18Joshua 2:19Joshua 6:22Joshua 6:23Joshua 6:24Joshua 6:25

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Joshua 9:21Jeremiah 38:17Romans 14:8Galatians 2:20Psalms 68:27

(16) And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.
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Proverbs 12:19

(17) And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.
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Joshua 10:2Joshua 18:25Joshua 18:26Joshua 18:27Joshua 18:28I Chronicles 21:29II Chronicles 1:3Ezra 2:25Nehemiah 7:29Joshua 15:9Joshua 15:60Joshua 18:14

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Revelation 8:12II Samuel 18:2Ezekiel 5:2Ezekiel 5:12Nehemiah 7:29

(18) And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.
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II Samuel 21:7Psalms 15:4Ecclesiastes 5:2Ecclesiastes 5:6Ecclesiastes 9:2

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(19) But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.
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Joshua 9:20Ecclesiastes 8:2Ecclesiastes 9:2Jeremiah 4:2

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Joshua 9:18Psalms 68:27

(20) This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
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II Samuel 21:1II Samuel 21:2II Samuel 21:3II Samuel 21:4II Samuel 21:5II Samuel 21:6II Chronicles 36:13Proverbs 20:25Ezekiel 17:12Ezekiel 17:13Ezekiel 17:14Ezekiel 17:15

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Leviticus 10:6Deuteronomy 32:27Romans 14:8Galatians 2:20Hebrews 7:21

(21) And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.
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Joshua 9:23Joshua 9:27Deuteronomy 29:11II Chronicles 2:17II Chronicles 2:18

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Psalms 68:27Jeremiah 38:17Numbers 7:2Numbers 7:10Joshua 9:18I Samuel 29:3

(22) And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among us?
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Genesis 3:13Genesis 3:14Genesis 27:35Genesis 27:36Genesis 27:41Genesis 27:42Genesis 27:43Genesis 27:44Genesis 27:45Genesis 29:25II Corinthians 11:3Joshua 9:6

(23) Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.
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Genesis 9:25Genesis 9:26Leviticus 27:28Leviticus 27:29Joshua 9:21Joshua 9:27

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(24) And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy 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 sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
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Exodus 23:31Exodus 23:32Exodus 23:33Numbers 33:51Numbers 33:52Numbers 33:55Numbers 33:56Deuteronomy 7:1Deuteronomy 7:2Deuteronomy 7:23Deuteronomy 7:24Deuteronomy 20:15

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II Chronicles 20:23Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Jeremiah 42:11Ezekiel 2:6

(25) And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.
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Genesis 16:6Judges 8:15II Samuel 24:14Isaiah 47:6Jeremiah 26:14Jeremiah 38:5Judges 10:15I Samuel 3:18Matthew 11:26

(26) And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.
(27) And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.
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