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Joshua 9:4 KJV
Joshua · chapter 9 · verse 4
They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;Joshua 9:4 · King James Version
Joshua 9:4 in context
2That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
3And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
4They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
5And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
6And 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- ambassadorstsâyarto make an errandH6737 →
- bottlesnôʼda bagH4997 →
- wililyʻormâhtrickeryH6195 →
- sackssaqproperly, a meshH8242 →
- asseschămôwra male assH2543 →
- workʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
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Here, I. The Gibeonites desire to make peace with Israel, being alarmed by the tidings they heard of the destruction of Jericho, Jos 9:3. Other people heard those tidings, and were irritated thereby to make war upon Israel; but the Gibeonites heard them and were induced to make peace with them.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 3-14