OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 14

Joshua 9:14

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The men sampled their provisions, and didn’t ask counsel from the LORD’s mouth.

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Joshua 9:11–17

11

Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, ‘Take supplies in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them. Tell them, “We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us.”’

12

This our bread we took hot for our supplies out of our houses on the day we went out to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and has become moldy.

13

These wineskins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our sandals have become old because of the very long journey.”

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The men sampled their provisions, and didn’t ask counsel from the LORD’s mouth.

15

Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.

16

At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.

17

The children of Israel traveled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

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