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Joshua 9:1 open_in_new
the Canaanite, the Perizzite. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "and the Canaanite and the Perizzite".
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Joshua 9:2 open_in_new
accord. Hebrew "mouth" put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for what is said by it: i.e. one consent.
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Joshua 9:3 open_in_new
inhabitants. The Gibeonires were Hivites (Joshua 9:7), condemned to extermination as mixed with the descendants of the Nephilim (App-26). Exodus 23:32; Exodus 34:12-15.Numbers 33:51-56; Deuteronomy 7:1; Deuteronomy 7:2; Deuteronomy 20:16. They were aware of this. Hence their mission; by which they exposed themselves to the enmity of the other nations (Joshua 10:1-4).
Gibeon. High place. About six and. half miles from Beth-el, eight miles north-north-west of Jerusalem.
what. Some codices, with Septuagint and Vulgate, read "all that".
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Joshua 9:4 open_in_new
They They too.
made as if they had been ambassadors. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "furnished themselves with provisions", as in Joshua 9:11 and Joshua 9:12.
bottles. skins i.e. wine-skins.
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Joshua 9:5 open_in_new
clouted. patched (Anglo-Saxon, clut.)
mouldy. become crumbly.
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Joshua 9:6 open_in_new
men. Heb, 'ish. App-14.
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Joshua 9:9 open_in_new
the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
God. Hebrew Elobim. App-4.
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Joshua 9:11 open_in_new
with you, Hebrew in your hand,
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Joshua 9:12 open_in_new
behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. Revelation 6; Revelation 6,
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Joshua 9:14 open_in_new
the men. Hebrew, plural of ish or 'enosh. App-14
took of their victuals. Probably tasted, or partook of their food; or, ate with them--a token of friendship.
asked not: i.e. by "Urim and Thummim". Compare Exodus 28:30, note.
mouth. Put by Figure of speech Melonymy (of Cause), App-6, for the counsel given by the mouth.
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Joshua 9:17 open_in_new
children. sons.
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Joshua 9:18 open_in_new
made. league. solemnised. covenant.
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Joshua 9:21 open_in_new
be. become.
promised. Compare Joshua 9:15.
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Joshua 9:24 open_in_new
commanded. Compare Deuteronomy 7:1-5.
our lives. our souls. Hebrew. Nephesh. See App-13.
LORD. There is an Homoeoteleuton (App-6) here, preserved in the Septuagint;. scribe going back to the former of the two words "Lord"; and reading. the altar of Jehovah [and the inhabitants of Gibeon became hewers of wood and drawers of water for the altar of Jehovah]", even unto this day, &c.
even. Supply Figure of speech Ellipsis (App-8), thus. "[as they are] even".
in. for.