Joshua 9:25
Good News Translation
Now we are in your power; do with us what you think is right."

New Revised Standard Version
And now we are in your hand: do as it seems good and right in your sight to do to us.”

Contemporary English Version
and you are strong enough to do anything to us that you want. We just ask you to do what seems right."

New American Bible
And now that we are in your power, do with us what is good and right in your eyes.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now we are in thy hand: deal with us as it seemeth good and right unto thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And now we are in thy hand: deal with us as it seemeth good and right unto thee.

we are

Genesis 16:6 And Abram made answer, and said to her: Behold thy handmaid is in thy own hand, use her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai afflicted her, she ran away.

Judges 8:15 And he came to Soccoth, and said to them: Behold Zebee, and Salmana, concerning whom you upbraided me, saying: Peradventure the hands of Zebee and Salmana are in thy hands, and therefore thou demandest that we should give bread to the men that are weary and faint.

2 Samuel 24:14 And David said to Gad: I am in a great strait: but it is better that I should fall into the hands of the Lord (for his mercies are many) than into the hands of men.

Isaiah 47:6 I was angry with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and have given them into thy hand: thou hast shewn no mercy to them: upon the ancient thou hast laid thy yoke exceeding heavy.

Jeremiah 26:14 But as for me, behold I am in your hands: do with me what is good and right in your eyes:

Jeremiah 38:5 And king Sedecias said: Behold he is in your hands: for it is not lawful for the king to deny you any thing.

as it seemeth

Judges 10:15 And the children of Israel said to the Lord: We have sinned, do thou unto us whatsoever pleaseth thee: only deliver us this time.

1 Samuel 3:18 So Samuel told him all the words, and did not hide them from him. And he answered: It is the Lord: let him do what is good in his sight.

Matthew 11:26 Yea, Father: for so hath it seemed good in thy sight.

Context
The Deceit of the Gibeonites
24They answered: It was told us, thy servants, that the Lord thy God had promised his servant Moses, to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants thereof. Therefore we feared exceedingly and provided for our lives, compelled by the dread we had of you, and we took this counsel. 25And now we are in thy hand: deal with us as it seemeth good and right unto thee.26So Joshua did as he had said, and delivered them from the hand of the children of Israel, that they should not be slain.…
Cross References
Genesis 16:6
And Abram made answer, and said to her: Behold thy handmaid is in thy own hand, use her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai afflicted her, she ran away.

Joshua 9:26
So Joshua did as he had said, and delivered them from the hand of the children of Israel, that they should not be slain.

Joshua 9:24
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