Verse 8

They replied to Joshua, “We are your servants.” But Joshua said to them, “Who are you, and where do you come from?”

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 20:11 : 11 If it accepts your offer of peace and opens its gates to you, then all the people found in it shall serve you and work for you.
  • 2 Kgs 10:5 : 5 So the one in charge of the palace, the one in charge of the city, the elders, and the guardians sent a message to Jehu, saying, "We are your servants, and we will do everything you tell us. We will not make anyone king; do whatever seems best to you."
  • Josh 9:11 : 11 So our elders and all the inhabitants of our land told us, ‘Take provisions for the journey and go to meet them. Tell them: We are your servants; now make a treaty with us.’
  • Josh 9:23 : 23 'Now therefore, you are under a curse and will always serve as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.'
  • Josh 9:25 : 25 Now we are in your hands. Do to us whatever seems good and right to you.
  • Josh 9:27 : 27 On that day, Joshua made them woodcutters and water carriers for the assembly and for the altar of the LORD at the place He would choose. And they continue to do so to this day.
  • 1 Kgs 9:20-21 : 20 All the people who were left from the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not Israelites— 21 their descendants who remained in the land, because the Israelites were not able to destroy them completely—Solomon conscripted them for forced labor, as they are to this day.
  • Gen 9:25-26 : 25 he said, 'Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.' 26 He also said, 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem.'