Joshua 9:24 Cross References: 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 for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

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The Gibeonites answered, "Your servants were told clearly that the LORD your God had commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land and wipe out all its inhabitants before you. So we greatly feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we have done this.

Cross References

Joshua 2:9
and said to them, "I know that the LORD has given you this land and that the fear of you has fallen on us, so that all the inhabitants of the land are melting in fear of you.

Joshua 9:9
"Your servants have come from a very distant land," they replied, "because of the fame of the LORD your God. For we have heard the reports of Him and all that He did in Egypt,

Chapter Outline

1. The kings combine against Israel
3. The Gibeonites by craft obtain a league
22. They are condemned to perpetual bondage

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the Lord

Exodus 23:31-33
And I will fix your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you. . . .

Numbers 33:51, 52, 55, 56
"Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, . . .

Deuteronomy 7:1, 2, 23, 24
When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations--the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you-- . . .

Deuteronomy 20:15-17
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby. . . .

we were sore

Exodus 15:14-16
The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the dwellers of Philistia. . . .

Job 2:4
"Skin for skin!" Satan replied. "A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.

Matthew 10:28
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

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