Joshua 9:6

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Summary

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.

The camp

Joshua 5:10

Joshua 10:43

We be

Bible References

The camp

While the Israelites camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month.

Then Joshua returned with all Israel to the camp at Gilgal.

We be

They replied to him, “Your servants have come from a far away land because of the reputation of the Lord your God. For we have heard of His fame, and all that He did in Egypt,

If it accepts your offer of peace and opens its gates to you, all the people found in it will become forced laborers for you and serve you.

Even for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel
but has come from a distant land
because of Your name—

Then the prophet Isaiah came to King Hezekiah and asked him, “Where did these men come from and what did they say to you?”

Hezekiah replied, “They came from a distant country, from Babylon.”