24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was told thy servants, that the Lord thy God had (A)commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land out of your sight, therefore we were exceeding sore afraid for our lives at the presence of you, and have done this thing:

25 And behold now, we are in thine hand: do as it seemeth good and right in thine eyes to do unto us.

26 Even so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the [a]hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 9:26 Who were minded to put them to death for fear of God’s wrath.

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