Joshua 9:6-8

International Standard Version

⁶ Then they approached Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and addressed him and the Israelis, “We’ve arrived from a distant country, so please make a treaty with us right now.”

⁷ But the Israelis responded to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live in our midst. If this is so,^[a] how can we make a treaty with you?”

⁸ So they responded to Joshua, “We are your servants.”

Joshua asked them, “Who are you? And where did you come from?”