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Joshua 9:6

in Joshua 9

They went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land; please make a treaty with us.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

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

KJV

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.

This verse in Joshua 9

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Make ye a league with us - כרתו לנו ברית kirethu lanu berith, cut, or divide, the covenant sacrifice with us. From this it appears that heathenism at this time had its sacrifices, and covenants were ratified by sacrificing to and invoking the objects of their adoration.

This site's exposition

unto the camp at Gilgal

on Joshua 9:6-8

They ask for a league at Gilgal, and the phrase they lead with, come from a far country, is lifted straight out of the law they are working around. Deuteronomy 20:10-15 permits terms of peace with a city very far off, and Deuteronomy 20:16-18 orders the opposite for the cities of these nations, so the entire disguise turns on one clause of one statute. The men of Israel see it and say it aloud in verse 7, which means the danger was named before the oath was sworn and the objection was met with evidence rather than with inquiry.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֵּלְכ֧וּand they went

    vaiyelekhuH19801546 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֛עַJoshua

    yehoshua'H3091218 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֖הthe camp

    hamachanehH4264215 times

  • הַגִּלְגָּ֑ל<the> Gilgal

    hagilgalH153741 times

  • וַיֹּאמְר֨וּand they said

    vaiyomeruH5595305 times

  • אֵלָ֜יוto him

    ʾelavH4135510 times

  • וְאֶל־and to

    veel-H4135510 times

  • אִ֣ישׁ[the] man of

    ʾishH3761663 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֗לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • מֵאֶ֤רֶץfrom a land

    meeretzH7762504 times

  • רְחוֹקָה֙distant

    rechokahH735084 times

  • בָּ֔אנוּwe have come

    banuH9352568 times

  • וְעַתָּ֖הand therefore

    veatahH6258433 times

  • כִּרְתוּ־make

    kirtu-H3772288 times

  • לָ֥נוּto <the> us

    lanu

  • בְרִֽית׃a covenant

    veritH1285284 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Joshua 5:10

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

    it leads to

    • Exodus 12:6

      You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.

    • Numbers 9:1–5

      In the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:

  • Through

    Joshua 10:43

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

    it leads to

    • Joshua 10:15

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

  • Through

    1 Kings 8:41

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

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 10:1–2

      Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with difficult questions.

    • Acts 8:27–40

      So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to…

    • Exodus 18:8–12

      Then Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had…

    • Isaiah 56:3–7

      Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”

    • 2 Chronicles 6:32

      And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your great name and Your mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and…

About Joshua

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth.