Joshua 9:22
in Joshua 9Then Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said, “Why did you deceive us by telling us you live far away from us, when in fact you live among us?
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
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?
KJV
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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This verse in Joshua 9
Commentary
6 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Were the Israelites bound to respect an oath thus procured by fraud? Were they right in doing so? Dr. Sanderson (“Works,” vol. iv. 4 pp. 269, 300, Oxford edition), determines these questions in the affirmative; and rightly, since the oath, though unlawfully taken, was not an oath taken to do an unlawful thing, i. e. a thing in itself unlawful. It was the carelessness of the Israelites themselves which betrayed them into this league.
This site's exposition
Why did you deceive us
on Joshua 9:22-23
Verse 7 calls them Hivites, a son of Canaan at Genesis 10:17, so the words land on the line Noah cursed at Genesis 9:25. The service is “for the house of my God”, which binds them to the sanctuary instead of a private master.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
Thus, therefore, you also, if you have brought a word in praise of God, not new and fresh from the learning of the spirit, from the doctrine of God's grace, your mouth indeed offers "a sacrifice of praise," but your mind is accused on account of the sterility of yesterday's flesh. For the Lord did not delay and order the bread which he gave to the disciples to be reserved for the next day when he said to them, "Take and eat." Perhaps there is something of this mystery in the fact that "he commands them not to carry bread on the way," that you always bring fresh loaves of the word of God which you carry within you. For this reason, the Gibeonites are condemned, and they become "cutters of wood and carriers of water" because they had brought old bread to the Israelites whom the spiritual law ordered always to use fresh and new.
Of course, it must be observed that the heretics reading this passage, those who do not accept the Old Testament, are accustomed to make a malicious charge and say, "See how Jesus [Joshua] the son of Nun showed no human kindness, so that, although permitting salvation, he inflicted a mark of infamy and a yoke of servitude upon those men who had come to him in supplication."
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And Joshua called for them,....
But here the kings of Canaan are in consultation to attack Israel, and concert matters for a vigorous effort of their united forces to check the progress of their victorious arms. It was strange they did not do this sooner. They had notice long since of their approach;
The words behind it
17 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּקְרָ֤א | vaiyikra' | and he summoned | H7121 → | 733 times |
| לָהֶם֙ | lahem | <to> <the> them | ||
| יְהוֹשֻׁ֔עַ | yehoshua' | Joshua | H3091 → | 218 times |
| וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר | vaydaber | and he spoke | H1696 → | 1141 times |
| אֲלֵיהֶ֖ם | ʾaleihem | to them | H413 → | 5510 times |
| לֵאמֹ֑ר | lemor | <to> saying | H559 → | 5305 times |
| לָמָּה֩ | lamah | <to> why? | H4100 → | 752 times |
| רִמִּיתֶ֨ם | rimitem | did you deceive | H7411 → | |
| אֹתָ֜נוּ | ʾotanu | <obj.> us | H853 → | 10935 times |
| לֵאמֹ֗ר | lemor | <to> saying | H559 → | 5305 times |
| רְחוֹקִ֨ים | rechokim | [are] distant | H7350 → | 84 times |
| אֲנַ֤חְנוּ | ʾanachnu | we | H587 → | 120 times |
| מִכֶּם֙ | mikem | from <the> you | ||
| מְאֹ֔ד | meod | very | H3966 → | 300 times |
| וְאַתֶּ֖ם | veatem | and you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| בְּקִרְבֵּ֥נוּ | bekirbenu | in midst our | H7130 → | 227 times |
| יֹשְׁבִֽים׃ | yoshevim | [are] dwelling | H3427 → | 1079 times |
וַיִּקְרָ֤אand he summoned
vaiyikra'H7121 →733 times
לָהֶם֙<to> <the> them
lahem
יְהוֹשֻׁ֔עַJoshua
yehoshua'H3091 →218 times
וַיְדַבֵּ֥רand he spoke
vaydaberH1696 →1141 times
אֲלֵיהֶ֖םto them
ʾaleihemH413 →5510 times
לֵאמֹ֑ר<to> saying
lemorH559 →5305 times
לָמָּה֩<to> why?
lamahH4100 →752 times
רִמִּיתֶ֨םdid you deceive
rimitemH7411 →
אֹתָ֜נוּ<obj.> us
ʾotanuH853 →10935 times
לֵאמֹ֗ר<to> saying
lemorH559 →5305 times
רְחוֹקִ֨ים[are] distant
rechokimH7350 →84 times
אֲנַ֤חְנוּwe
ʾanachnuH587 →120 times
מִכֶּם֙from <the> you
mikem
מְאֹ֔דvery
meodH3966 →300 times
וְאַתֶּ֖םand you
veatemH859 →1094 times
בְּקִרְבֵּ֥נוּin midst our
bekirbenuH7130 →227 times
יֹשְׁבִֽים׃[are] dwelling
yoshevimH3427 →1079 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Genesis 29:25When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasn’t it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”
it leads to
- Matthew 7:2
For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
- Proverbs 11:31
If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!
- Genesis 27:35–36
But Isaac replied, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
- Revelation 3:19
Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
- Genesis 12:18
So Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, “What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?
- Matthew 7:2
Through
Joshua 9:6They 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.”
it leads to
- 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.
- 2 Kings 20:14
Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”
- 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 about Him: all that He did in Egypt,
- Joshua 5:10
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Who and where
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Origen of Alexandria, HOMILIES ON LEVITICUS 5.8 and Origen of Alexandria, HOMILIES ON JOSHUA 10.2.