Yosua 9:24

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Jawab mereka kepada Yosua, katanya: "Sebab telah dikabarkan dengan sungguh-sungguh kepada hamba-hambamu ini, bahwa TUHAN, Allahmu, memerintahkan kepada Musa hamba-Nya, memberikan seluruh negeri itu kepadamu dan memunahkan seluruh penduduk negeri itu dari depan kamu, maka sangatlah kami takut kehilangan nyawa, menghadapi kamu; itulah sebabnya kami melakukan yang demikian.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Jawab mereka kepada Yosua, katanya: "Sebab telah dikabarkan dengan sungguh-sungguh kepada hamba-hambamu ini, bahwa TUHAN, Allahmu, memerintahkan kepada Musa hamba-Nya, memberikan seluruh negeri itu kepadamu dan memunahkan seluruh penduduk negeri itu dari depan kamu, maka sangatlah kami takut kehilangan nyawa, menghadapi kamu; itulah sebabnya kami melakukan yang demikian.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sahut mereka itu kepada Yusak, sembahnya: Bahwa sesungguhnya telah diberitahu kepada patik tuanku dengan nyata-nyata akan firman Tuhan, Allah kamu, kepada Musa, bahwa Ia hendak mengaruniai kamu dengan seluruh tanah ini dan membinasakan segala orang isi negeri ini di hadapan kamu; maka sebab itu takutlah patik sekalian ini sangat akan kamu dari hal kehidupan patik, bahwa inilah mulanya maka patik telah berbuat perkara ini.

Contextual Overview

²² And Iosuah called for them, & talked with them, and sayde, Wherfore haue ye beguiled vs, saying, We dwell farre from you: when ye dwell among vs? ²³ And nowe are ye cursed, and there shal not ceasse to be of you bondmen, and hewers of wood, & drawers of water for the house of my God. ²⁴ And they aunswered Iosuah, & sayd, It was tolde thy seruauntes how that the Lorde thy God had commaunded his seruaunt Moyses to geue you all the lande, and to destroy all the inhabitours therof out of your sight, and therfore we were exceedyng sore afrayde for our liues at the presence of you, and haue done this thing. ²⁵ And beholde, we are in thyne hande: as it seemeth good and right in thyne eyes to do vnto vs, so do. ²⁶ And euen so did he vnto them, and rid them out of the hande of the chyldren of Israel, that they slue them not. ²⁷ And Iosuah made them that same day hewers of wood, and drawers of water for the congregation and for the aulter of God, vnto this day, in the place whiche he shoulde choose.

Bible Verse Review
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the Lord: Exodus 23:31-33, Numbers 33:51, Numbers 33:52, Numbers 33:55, Numbers 33:56, Deuteronomy 7:1, Deuteronomy 7:2, Deuteronomy 7:23, Deuteronomy 7:24, Deuteronomy 20:15-17

we were sore: Exodus 15:14-16, Job 2:4, Matthew 10:28

Reciprocal: Numbers 22:3 - General Deuteronomy 2:25 - General Deuteronomy 2:34 - utterly destroyed Deuteronomy 20:16 - General Joshua 6:21 - utterly Joshua 9:9 - we have Joshua 10:6 - from thy Joshua 10:40 - as the Lord Joshua 11:12 - as Moses 2 Kings 5:15 - now I know 2 Kings 10:5 - We are thy servants 1 Chronicles 14:17 - the fear of him Isaiah 27:5 - let him Micah 7:17 - they shall be Habakkuk 3:7 - saw the Luke 15:19 - make

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they answered Joshua, and said, because it was certainly told thy servants,.... Or "it was told", told t; not only certainly, told, but frequently told them, they had often heard of it by one means or another:

how that the Lord thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land; all the land of Canaan, no part excepted; they had heard much of the Lord God of Israel, and of Moses, what character he bore, and of the commands of the Lord to him; they seem to have knowledge of God, and faith in him as to his promises and threatenings, believing they would be fulfilled:

and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; as the gift of the land of Canaan to Israel was often spoken of by the Lord to Moses, and frequently mentioned by him; so there were instructions given him from the Lord, and which lie delivered to Israel, utterly to destroy the inhabitants of Canaan, so, that these people had accurate intelligence and information of this matter; see Deuteronomy 7:1:

therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing; they answer to Joshua's question, "wherefore have ye beguiled us?" Joshua 9:22, that it was fear of losing their lives, than which nothing is dearer to a man, and the principle of self-preservation that put them upon framing and using this device.

t הגד הגד "indicando indicatum est", Pagninus, Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It was mere fear which drove the Gibeonites to act as they did. They sought for union with God’s people, not for its own sake, but to save their lives. Rahab’s motives were higher (Joshua 2:9 ff). Hence, she was adopted into Israel; the Gibeonites remained forever bondsmen of Israel.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 9:24. We were sore afraid of our lives — Self-preservation, which is the most powerful law of nature, dictated to them those measures which they adopted; and they plead this as the motive of their conduct.