Ver. 8. And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants— Being more pressingly interrogated by Joshua, they answered with humility, that, knowing the greatness of the nation of Israel and their own inferiority, they desired nothing more than to live in amity and alliance with them; which is all that the expression, we are thy servants, implies. We see others like it in the history of the Patriarchs, (Genesis 18:3-4; Genesis 32:20.) where they are most certainly used merely by way of compliment.
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Joshua 9:8
8 And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye?