In Context

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

5 And old shoes and clouted on their feet, and old garments on them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and moldy.

6 And they went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make you a league with us.

7 And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, Peradventure you dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?

8 And they said to Joshua, We are your servants. And Joshua said to them, Who are you? and from from where come you?

9 And they said to him, From a very far country your servants are come because of the name of the LORD your God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,

Joshua 9:7 in Other Translations