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Joshua 9:24 KJV
Joshua · chapter 9 · verse 24
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 of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.Joshua 9:24 · King James Version
Joshua 9:24 in context
22And 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?
23Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.
24And 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 of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
25And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.
26And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- certainlynâgadproperly, to frontH5046 →
- commandedtsâvâhto constitute, enjoinH6680 →
- answeredʻânâhproperly, to eye or to heedH6030 →
- servantsʻebeda servantH5650 →
- JoshuaYᵉhôwshûwaʻJehoshua , the Jewish leaderH3091 →
- MosesMôshehMosheh, the Israelite lawgiverH4872 →
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The matter is here settled between Joshua and the Gibeonites, and an explanation of the league agreed upon. We may suppose that now, not the messengers who were first sent, but the elders of Gibeon, and of the cities that were dependent upon it, were themselves present and treated with, that the matter might be fully…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 22-27