Joshua 9:6
They went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land; please make a treaty with us.”
Note Forms of the Hebrew berit are translated in most passages as covenant; also in verses 7, 11, 15, and 16.
And 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.
They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us.”
And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We are come from a far country: now therefore make ye a covenant with us.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the camp
- Joshua 5:10; Joshua 10:43
- We be
- Joshua 9:9; Deuteronomy 20:11–15; 1 Kings 8:41; 2 Kings 20:14