Matthew Poole and continuators on Joshua 9:9
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Joshua9:9
9 And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come, because of the Name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the same of him, and all that he did in Egypt .
Being moved thereunto by the report of his great and glorious nature and works; so they gave them hopes that they would embrace their Religion.
They cunningly mention those things only which were done some time since, and say nothing of the dividing of Iordan, nor of the destruction of Iericho and Ai, as if they lived so far off that the same of those things had not yet reached them.
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