Joshua 9:7-9

International Standard Version

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?”

⁹ They answered, “Your servants have arrived from a very distant land, because of the reputation^[b] of the Lord your God, because we’ve heard a report about all that he did in Egypt,