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Text -- Joshua 9:1-25 (NET)

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The Gibeonites Deceive Israel
9:1 When the news reached all the kings on the west side of the Jordan– in the hill country, the lowlands, and all along the Mediterranean coast as far as Lebanon (including the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)– 9:2 they formed an alliance to fight against Joshua and Israel. 9:3 When the residents of Gibeon heard what Joshua did to Jericho and Ai, 9:4 they did something clever. They collected some provisions and put worn-out sacks on their donkeys, along with worn-out wineskins that were ripped and patched. 9:5 They had worn-out, patched sandals on their feet and dressed in worn-out clothes. All their bread was dry and hard. 9:6 They came to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land. Make a treaty with us.” 9:7 The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live near us. So how can we make a treaty with you?” 9:8 But they said to Joshua, “We are willing to be your subjects.” So Joshua said to them, “Who are you and where do you come from?” 9:9 They told him, “Your subjects have come from a very distant land because of the reputation of the Lord your God, for we have heard the news about all he did in Egypt 9:10 and all he did to the two Amorite kings on the other side of the Jordan– King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan in Ashtaroth. 9:11 Our leaders and all who live in our land told us, ‘Take provisions for your journey and go meet them. Tell them, “We are willing to be your subjects. Make a treaty with us.”’ 9:12 This bread of ours was warm when we packed it in our homes the day we started out to meet you, but now it is dry and hard. 9:13 These wineskins we filled were brand new, but look how they have ripped. Our clothes and sandals have worn out because it has been a very long journey.” 9:14 The men examined some of their provisions, but they failed to ask the Lord’s advice. 9:15 Joshua made a peace treaty with them and agreed to let them live. The leaders of the community sealed it with an oath. 9:16 Three days after they made the treaty with them, the Israelites found out they were from the local area and lived nearby. 9:17 So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities– Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim. 9:18 The Israelites did not attack them because the leaders of the community had sworn an oath to them in the name of the Lord God of Israel. The whole community criticized the leaders, 9:19 but all the leaders told the whole community, “We swore an oath to them in the name of the Lord God of Israel. So now we can’t hurt them! 9:20 We must let them live so we can escape the curse attached to the oath we swore to them.” 9:21 The leaders then added, “Let them live.” So they became woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had decided. 9:22 Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said to them, “Why did you trick us by saying, ‘We live far away from you,’ when you really live nearby? 9:23 Now you are condemned to perpetual servitude as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.” 9:24 They said to Joshua, “It was carefully reported to your subjects how the Lord your God commanded Moses his servant to assign you the whole land and to destroy all who live in the land from before you. Because of you we were terrified we would lose our lives, so we did this thing. 9:25 So now we are in your power. Do to us what you think is good and appropriate.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Ai a town of Canaanites in Benjamin
 · Amorites members of a pre-Israel Semitic tribe from Mesopotamia
 · Ashtaroth pagan god images of the Canaanite goddess Ashtoreth,a town of Manasseh about 35 km east of the sea of Chinnereth
 · Bashan a region east of Lake Galilee between Mt. Hermon and Wadi Yarmuk
 · Beeroth a resident(s) of the town of Beeroth
 · Canaanite residents of the region of Canaan
 · Chephirah a town of the Gibeonites in Benjamin
 · Egypt descendants of Mizraim
 · Gibeon a town of Benjamin pioneered by Jeiel of Benjamin
 · Gilgal a place where Israel encamped between Jericho and the Jordan,a town between Dor and Tirza in the territory of Ephraim (YC),a town just north of Joppa, originally a military base (YC),a place 12 miles south of Shechem now called Jiljiliah (YC)
 · Great Sea the Mediterranean Sea
 · Heshbon a town of south-eastern Judah
 · Hittite a person/people living in the land of Syro-Palestine
 · Hivite a person/people descended from Canaan son of Ham son of Noah
 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel
 · Jebusite resident(s) of the town of Jebus (Jerusalem)
 · Jericho a town five miles west of the Jordan and 15 miles northeast of Jerusalem,a town of Benjamin 11 km NW of the mouth of the Jordan River
 · Jordan the river that flows from Lake Galilee to the Dead Sea,a river that begins at Mt. Hermon, flows south through Lake Galilee and on to its end at the Dead Sea 175 km away (by air)
 · Joshua a son of Eliezer; the father of Er; an ancestor of Jesus,the son of Nun and successor of Moses,son of Nun of Ephraim; successor to Moses,a man: owner of the field where the ark stopped,governor of Jerusalem under King Josiah,son of Jehozadak; high priest in the time of Zerubbabel
 · Lebanon a mountain range and the adjoining regions (IBD)
 · Moses a son of Amram; the Levite who led Israel out of Egypt and gave them The Law of Moses,a Levite who led Israel out of Egypt and gave them the law
 · Og king of Bashan whom Israel defeated.
 · Perizzite a people of ancient Canaan in the later territory of Ephraim
 · Sihon the king of the Amorites in Moses time


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Gibeon | Alliances | God | Joshua | Israel | Lies and Deceits | Canaan | Kirjath-jearim | Alliance | Magnanimity | Slave | Treaty | Oath | Contracts | Servant | Diplomacy | Confidence | Craftiness | Deception | TEARS | more
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Verse Notes / Footnotes
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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Jos 9:1 Heb “in front of.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:2 Heb “they gathered together to fight against Joshua and Israel [with] one mouth.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:3 For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

NET Notes: Jos 9:4 Heb “and they went and [?].” The root and meaning of the verb form יִצְטַיָּר&...

NET Notes: Jos 9:5 Or “moldy.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:7 Heb “in our midst.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:8 Heb “we are your servants.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:9 Heb “the report about him, all that he did in Egypt.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:11 Heb “your servants.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:12 Or “moldy.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:14 Heb “but they did not ask the mouth of the Lord.” This refers to seeking the Lord’s will and guidance through an oracle.

NET Notes: Jos 9:15 Heb “Joshua made peace with them and made a treaty with them to let them live, and the leaders of the community swore an oath to them.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:16 Heb “At the end of three days, after they made the treaty with them, they heard that they were neighbors to them and in their midst they were li...

NET Notes: Jos 9:18 Or “grumbled against.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:19 Or “touch.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:20 Heb “This is what we will do to them, keeping them alive so there will not be upon us anger concerning the oath which we swore to them.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:21 Heb “as the leaders said to them.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:22 Heb “live in our midst?”

NET Notes: Jos 9:23 Heb “Now you are cursed and a servant will not be cut off from you, woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:24 Or “we were very afraid.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:25 Heb “according to what is good and according to what is upright in your eyes to do us, do.”

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