Joshua 9:4
acted deceptively and set out as envoys, carrying on their donkeys worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.
Note Or set out with provisions
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;
they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wineskins,
they also did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine-skins, old and rent and bound up,
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- work wilily
- Genesis 34:13; 1 Kings 20:31–33; Matthew 10:16; Luke 16:8
- wine bottles
- These bottles being made of skin, were consequently liable to be rent, and capable of being mended; which is done, according to Chardin, by putting in a piece, or by gathering up the wounded piece in the manner of a purse; and sometimes by inserting a flat piece of wood.
- Psalm 119:83; Matthew 9:17; Mark 2:22; Luke 5:37, 38