Josh.9.4

Joshua 9:4

KJV

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;

The Deceit of the Gibeonites

Cross References

Matthew 9:17

KJV Jesus

Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

The Patches and the Wineskins

Joshua 9:3

KJV

¶ And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,

The Deceit of the Gibeonites

Joshua 9:5

KJV

And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.

The Deceit of the Gibeonites

Joshua 9:13

KJV

And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.