Joshua 9:9

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The men answered, “We are your servants. We have come from a faraway country. We came because we heard of the great power of the Lord your God. We heard about the things he did. We heard about everything he did in Egypt.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:5

Then these Levites spoke again: Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah. They said: “Stand up and praise the Lord your God!”

Psalm 148:13

Praise the Lord’s name!\par Honor his name forever!\par Everything in heaven and earth,\par praise him!\par

Psalm 72:19

Praise his glorious name forever!\par Let his glory fill the whole world!\par Amen and Amen! {\cf2\super [414]} \par

Psalm 78:12

God showed their fathers\par his great power at Zoan in Egypt.\par

Psalm 83:18

Then they will know that you are God.\par They will know your name is YAHWEH.\par They will know that you, God Most-High,\par are the God of the whole world!\par

Exodus 15:14

“The other nations will hear this story, and they will be frightened. The people Philistia will shake with fear.

Exodus 9:16

But I have put you here for a reason. I have put you here so that I could show you my power. Then people all over the world will learn about me!

Isaiah 55:5

There are nations in places you don’t know,\par but you will call for those nations.\par Those nations don’t know you,\par but they will run to you.\par This will happen because the Lord,\par your God, wants it.\par This will happen because the Holy One\par of Israel honors you.\par

Isaiah 66:19

I will put a mark on some of the people—\{I will save them\}. I will send some of these saved people to the nations Tarshish, {\cf2\super [480]} Libya, {\cf2\super [481]} Lud {\cf2\super [482]} (the land of archers {\cf2\super [483]}), Tubal, {\cf2\super [484]} Greece, and all the faraway lands. Those people have never heard my teachings. Those people have never seen my Glory. {\cf2\super [485]} So the saved people will tell the nations about my glory.

Numbers 14:15

So you must not kill these people now. If you kill them, then all the nations that have heard about your power will say,

Numbers 20:14

While Moses was at Kadesh, he sent some men with a message to the king of Edom. The message said: “Your brothers, the people of Israel, say to you: You know about all the troubles that we have had.

Acts 8:7

Many of these people had evil spirits \{from the devil\} inside them. But Philip made the evil spirits leave them. The spirits made a loud noise when they came out. There were also many weak and crippled people there. Philip made these people well, too.

Deuteronomy 20:11

If they accept your offer and open their gates, then all the people in that city will become your slaves and be forced to work for you.

Deuteronomy 20:15

That is what you must do to all the cities that are very far from you—the cities that are not in the land where you will live.

Joshua 9:10

And we heard that he defeated the two kings of the Amorite people east of the Jordan River. This was Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, the king of Bashan, in the land of Ashtaroth.

Joshua 9:16

Three days later, the people of Israel learned that those men lived very near their camp.

Joshua 9:17

So the people of Israel went to the place where those men lived. On the third day the people of Israel came to the cities of Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

Joshua 9:24

The Gibeonite people answered, “We lied to you because we were afraid you would kill us. We heard that God commanded his servant Moses to give you all of this land. And God told you to kill all the people that lived in this land. That is why we lied to you.