Yosua 9:8

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lalu kata mereka kepada Yosua: "Kami ini hamba-hambamu." Tanya Yosua: "Siapakah kamu ini dan dari manakah kamu datang?"

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu kata mereka kepada Yosua: "Kami ini hamba-hambamu." Tanya Yosua: "Siapakah kamu ini dan dari manakah kamu datang?"

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sembah mereka itu kepada Yusak: Bahwa patik sekalian ini hamba tuanku. Maka kata Yusak kepadanya: Siapakah kamu ini dan dari mana kamu datang?

Contextual Overview

³ And the inhabitours of Gibeon heard what Iosuah had done vnto Iericho, and to Ai, ⁴ And they dyd worke wylylye, & went and made them selues embassadours, and toke olde sackes vpon their asses, & wine bottels old, both rent & boude vp: ⁵ And olde clowted shoes vpon their feete, and their rayment was olde: and all their prouision of bread was dryed vp, and hored. ⁶ And they came vnto Iosuah into the hoast to Gilgal, and sayde vnto him and vnto all the men of Israel, We be come from a far countrey: and nowe make ye agreement with vs. ⁷ And the men of Israel sayde vnto the Heuite: It may be thou dwellest amog vs, and then howe can I make peace with thee? ⁸ And they sayde vnto Iosuah: We are thy seruauntes. And Iosuah sayde vnto them againe: What are ye, & whence come ye? ⁹ They aunswered him: From a very farre coutrey thy seruauntes are come, for the name of the Lorde thy God: for we haue hearde the fame of him, & all that he did in Egypte, ¹⁰ And all that he did to the two kinges of ye Amorites that were beyonde Iordane, Sehon king of Hesbon, and Og king of Basa, which were at Astaroth. ¹¹ Wherfore our elders and all the enhabitours of our countrey spake to vs, saying: Take vitailes with you to serue by the way, and go meete them, and say vnto them, We are your seruautes: And now make ye a couenaunt of peace with vs. ¹² This our foode of bread we toke with vs out of our houses whot, ye daye we departed to come vnto you: But nowe beholde, it is dried vp, and hored.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joshua 9:11, Joshua 9:23, Joshua 9:25, Joshua 9:27, Genesis 9:25, Genesis 9:26, Deuteronomy 20:11, 1 Kings 9:20, 1 Kings 9:21, 2 Kings 10:5

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they said unto Joshua, we [are] thy servants,.... Not that they meant to be subjects of his, and tributaries to him; but this they said in great humility and lowliness of mind, being willing to be or do anything he should enjoin them. Abarbinel observes, that this they proposed to Joshua singly, not to be servants to all the people, but to him only, and to have him for their head and governor:

and Joshua, said, who [are] ye? and from whence come ye? by what name are ye called? and from what country do ye come? suspecting, as it should seem, that they were the inhabitants of Canaan; or however he was cautious and upon his guard, lest they should be such, and yet was not enough upon his guard to prevent imposition.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 9:8. We are thy servants. — This appears to have been the only answer they gave to the question of the Israelitish elders, and this they gave to Joshua, not to them, as they saw that Joshua was commander-in-chief of the host.

Who are ye? and from whence come ye? — To these questions, from such an authority, they felt themselves obliged to give an explicit answer; and they do it very artfully by a mixture of truth, falsehood, and hypocrisy.