Joshua 9:11
“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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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
Wherefore our elders, and all the inhabitants of our country,
spake unto us,.... They suggest, that their senate, or…
Adam ClarkeMethodist theologian, 1762–1832
Wherefore our elders, etc. - All this, and what follows to the end of Jos 9:13, was false, contrived merely for the…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Joshua 9:3-14
Here, I. The Gibeonites desire to make peace with Israel, being alarmed by the tidings they heard of the destruction of…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921Joshua 9:3-27
The Embassy of the Gibeonites
3. of Gibeon This city was the head of the four towns occupied by the Hivites, the other…
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