Devine Scripture

Joshua 9:4

Joshua chapter 9 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

they also did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine-skins, old and rent and bound up,

KJV

King James Version · 1611

They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

they also did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine-skins, old and rent and bound up,

Context

v.3But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,

v.4This passage

v.5and old and patched shoes upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and was become mouldy.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Luke 5:37

    And no man putteth new wine into old wine-skins; else the new wine will burst the skins, and itself will be spilled, and the skins will perish.

  • 1 Kings 20:31

    And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, we pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.

  • Matthew 10:16

    Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

  • Psalms 119:83

    For I am become like a wine-skin in the smoke; Yet do I not forget thy statutes.

  • Matthew 9:17

    Neither do men put new wine into old wine-skins: else the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins perish: but they put new wine into fresh wine-skins, and both are preserved.

  • Mark 2:22

    And no man putteth new wine into old wine-skins; else the wine will burst the skins, and the wine perisheth, and the skins: but they put new wine into fresh wine-skins.