They journeyed from Sukkoth and camped in Etham, on the edge of the desert.

“No,” he insisted, “but you have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”

They traveled from Succoth, and camped in Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.

Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you.”

Then I said to you, “You have come to the Amorite hill country which the Lord our God is about to give us.

Then Joseph remembered the dreams he had dreamed about them, and he said to them, “You are spies; you have come to see if our land is vulnerable!”

for you have not yet come to the final stop and inheritance the Lord your God is giving you.

Jephthah said to the leaders of Gilead, “But you hated me and made me leave my father’s house. Why do you come to me now, when you are in trouble?”

When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger to them and spoke to them harshly. He asked, “Where do you come from?” They answered, “From the land of Canaan, to buy grain for food.”

David went out to meet them and said, “If you come to me in peace and want to help me, then I will make an alliance with you. But if you come to betray me to my enemies when I have not harmed you, may the God of our ancestors take notice and judge!”

“Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake that I am about to act, O house of Israel, but for the sake of my holy reputation which you profaned among the nations where you went.