Joshua 9:7-9

New International Version - UK

⁷ The Israelites said to the Hivites, ‘But perhaps you live near us, so how can we make a treaty with you?’

⁸ ‘We are your servants,’ they said to Joshua.

But Joshua asked, ‘Who are you and where do you come from?’

⁹ They answered: ‘Your servants have come from a very distant country because of the fame of the Lord your God. For we have heard reports of him: all that he did in Egypt,