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Book of Joshua, Chapter 9

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Chapter 9 of Joshua—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ And it came about that as soon as all the kings1 who were on the side of the Jordan in the mountainous region and in the She·pheʹlah[a] and along the whole coast of the Great Sea2 and[b] in front of Lebʹa·non,3 the Hitʹtites4 and the Amʹor·ites, the Caʹnaan·ites,5 the Perʹiz·zites,6 the Hiʹvites and the Jebʹu·sites,7 heard of it,
  2. they began to assemble themselves all together to make war against Joshua and Israel unanimously.8
  3. ¶ And the inhabitants of Gibʹe·on9 heard what Joshua had done to Jerʹi·cho10 and Aʹi.11
  4. So they, even of their own accord, acted with shrewdness12 and went and stocked themselves with provisions and took worn-out sacks for their asses, and wine skin-bottles worn out and burst and tied up,13
  5. and worn-out and patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out garments upon themselves, and all the bread of their provisions proved to be dry and crumby.
  6. Then they went to Joshua at the camp at Gilʹgal14 and said to him and the men of Israel: “It is from a distant land that we have come. And now CONCLUDE a covenant15 with us.”
  7. At this the men of Israel said to the Hiʹvites:16 “Perhaps it is in our vicinity that you are dwelling. So how could we conclude[c] a covenant with you?”17
  8. In turn they said to Joshua: “We are your servants.”[d]18
    ¶ Then Joshua said to them: “Who are YOU, and where do YOU come from?”
  9. At this they said to him: “It is from a very distant land19 that your servants have come in regard to the name20 of Jehovah your God, because we have heard of his fame and of all that he did in Egypt,21
  10. and of all that he did to the two kings of the Amʹor·ites who were on the other side of the Jordan, namely, Siʹhon22 the king of Heshʹbon and Og23 the king of Baʹshan, who was in Ashʹta·roth.24
  11. Hence our older men and all the inhabitants of our land said this to us,25 ‘Take provisions in YOUR hands for the journey and go to meet them, and YOU must say to them: “We are YOUR servants.26 And now conclude a covenant with us.”’27
  12. This bread of ours, it was hot when we took it as our provisions out of our houses on the day of our going out to come here to YOU, and now, look! it is dry and has become crumby.28
  13. And these are the wine skin-bottles that we filled new, and, look! they have burst,29 and these garments and sandals of ours, they have worn out because of the great length of the journey.”
  14. ¶ Upon that the men took some of their provisions, and at the mouth of Jehovah they did not inquire.30
  15. And Joshua went making peace with them31 and concluding a covenant with them to let them live, and so the chieftains32 of the assembly swore to them.33
  16. ¶ And it came about that at the end of three days, after they had concluded a covenant with them, they got to hear that they were near to them and it was in their vicinity they were dwelling.
  17. Then the sons of Israel pulled out and came to their cities on the third day, and their cities were Gibʹe·on34 and Che·phiʹrah35 and Be·erʹoth36 and Kirʹi·ath-jeʹa·rim.37
  18. And the sons of Israel did not strike them, because the chieftains of the assembly had sworn38 to them by Jehovah the God of Israel.39 And all the assembly began to murmur against the chieftains.40
  19. At this all the chieftains said to all the assembly: “We, for our part, have sworn to them by Jehovah the God of Israel, and now we are not allowed to hurt them.41
  20. This is what we shall do to them while letting them live,[e] that no indignation may come upon us over the oath that we have sworn to them.”42
  21. So the chieftains said to them: “Let them live and let them become gatherers[f] of wood and drawers of water for all the assembly,43 just as the chieftains have promised them.”44
  22. ¶ Joshua now called them and spoke to them, saying: “Why did YOU trick us, saying, ‘We are very far away from YOU,’45 whereas YOU are dwelling in our very midst?46
  23. And now YOU are cursed47 people, and a slave’s position48 and being gatherers[g] of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God will never be cut off from YOU.”49
  24. Then they answered Joshua and said: “It was because your servants were plainly told that Jehovah your God had commanded Moses his servant to give YOU all the land and to annihilate all the inhabitants of the land from before YOU,50 and we became very much afraid for our souls[h] because of YOU.51 So we did this thing.52
  25. And now here we are, in your hand. Just as it is good and right in your eyes to do to us, do.”53
  26. And he proceeded to do so to them and to deliver them from the hand of the sons of Israel, and they did not kill them.54
  27. Accordingly Joshua constituted55 them[i] on that day gatherers of wood and drawers of water for the assembly56 and for Jehovah’s altar, down to this day, at the place that he should choose.57

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Or, “the lowland.”
  2. ^ “And,” LXX; Vg, “also”; M omits.
  3. ^ Lit., “could I [collectively] cut.”
  4. ^ Or, “slaves.”
  5. ^ “Letting . . . live.” In Heb. this is a verb in the infinitive absolute, indefinite as to time and impersonal.
  6. ^ Or, “cutters.”
  7. ^ Lit., “and a slave and gatherers.”
  8. ^ “For our souls (lives).” Heb., lenaph·sho·thehʹnu; Gr., psy·khonʹ; Lat., a·ni·maʹbus.
  9. ^ “Accordingly . . . [he] constituted them.” Lit., “And [he] gave them.” Heb., wai·yit·tenemʹ (from na·thanʹ, from which the word “Nethinim” is derived).

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Jos 12:7
  2. ^ Nu 34:6
  3. ^ De 1:7
  4. ^ Ge 15:20
  5. ^ Ex 3:17; 23:23
  6. ^ De 7:1
  7. ^ Ex 13:5
  8. ^ Jos 24:11; Ps 83:4, 5
  9. ^ Jos 10:2; 11:19
  10. ^ Jos 6:20
  11. ^ Jos 8:24
  12. ^ Pr 14:15; 22:3
  13. ^ Mt 9:17
  14. ^ Jos 5:10; 10:43
  15. ^ Lu 14:32
  16. ^ Ge 10:17; 34:2; Ex 3:8
  17. ^ Ex 23:32; 34:12; De 7:2; 20:16, 18; Jg 2:2
  18. ^ 2Ki 10:5
  19. ^ De 20:15
  20. ^ 1Ki 8:41; 2Ch 6:32; Pr 18:10
  21. ^ Ex 9:16; 15:14; Jos 2:10
  22. ^ Nu 21:21, 24; De 2:34
  23. ^ Nu 21:33, 35; De 3:3
  24. ^ De 1:4; Jos 12:4
  25. ^ Jb 12:12; 32:7
  26. ^ De 20:11
  27. ^ Jos 9:6
  28. ^ Jos 9:5
  29. ^ Jos 9:4; Mr 2:22
  30. ^ Ex 28:30; Nu 27:21; 1Sa 30:7; Pr 3:5, 6
  31. ^ Jos 11:19
  32. ^ Nu 34:18; 2Ch 5:2
  33. ^ 2Sa 21:2
  34. ^ Jos 10:2; 18:25
  35. ^ Ezr 2:25
  36. ^ Ne 7:29
  37. ^ Jos 15:9; 18:14; 1Sa 7:1; 1Ch 13:5
  38. ^ Nu 30:2; Mt 5:33
  39. ^ De 6:13
  40. ^ Ex 22:28; Pp 2:14
  41. ^ Ps 15:4; Ec 5:4, 6
  42. ^ 2Sa 21:1; Pr 6:17; 8:13; Zc 5:4; 8:17; Ml 3:5
  43. ^ De 29:11
  44. ^ Jos 9:15
  45. ^ Jos 9:6
  46. ^ Jos 9:16
  47. ^ Ge 9:25, 26
  48. ^ 1Ki 9:21
  49. ^ De 29:11; Ezr 8:17
  50. ^ Ex 23:31; Nu 33:52; De 7:1; 20:16
  51. ^ Ex 15:15; De 2:25; 11:25; Jos 5:1
  52. ^ Jon 3:9; Ro 3:29; Heb 11:31
  53. ^ Ge 16:6; Jg 10:15; 2Sa 24:14; Je 26:14
  54. ^ Je 39:18
  55. ^ 1Ch 9:2; Ezr 7:24; 8:17; Ne 3:26; 7:60
  56. ^ De 29:11; Jos 9:21
  57. ^ De 12:5; 1Ki 8:29; 2Ch 6:6

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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