Joshua 9:16

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But when three days had passed after they had made a treaty with them, they heard that they were their neighbors and were living among them.

Cross References

Proverbs 12:19

Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.

Joshua 9:15

And Joshua made peace with them, guaranteeing their lives by a treaty; and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.

Joshua 9:17

So the Israelites set out and reached their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.

Joshua 9:22

Joshua summoned them, and said to them, “Why did you deceive us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ while in fact you are living among us?

Joshua 9:9

They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country, because of the name of the Lord your God; for we have heard a report of him, of all that he did in Egypt,