Joshua 9:21

Geneva Bible (1560)

And the Princes sayd vnto them againe, Let them liue, but they shall hewe wood, and drawe water vnto all the Congregation, as the Princes appoint them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 29:11 : 11 Your children, your wiues, and thy stranger that is in thy campe from the hewer of thy wood, vnto the drawer of thy water,
  • Josh 9:23 : 23 Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood, and drawers of water for the house of my God.
  • Josh 9:27 : 27 And Ioshua appointed them that same day to be hewers of wood, and drawers of water for the Congregation, and for the altar of the Lord vnto this day, in the place which he should chuse.
  • 2 Chr 2:17-18 : 17 And Salomon nombred al the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the nombring that his father Dauid had nombred them: & they were found an hundreth and three & fiftie thousand, and sixe hundreth. 18 And he set seuentie thousande of them to the burden, and fourescore thousande to hewe stones in the mountaine, and three thousande and sixe hundreth ouerseers to cause the people to worke.
  • Josh 9:15 : 15 So Ioshua made peace with them, & made a league with them, that he would suffer them to liue: also the Princes of the Congregation sware vnto them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 9:18-20
    3 verses
    82%

    18And the children of Israel slewe them not, because the Princes of the Congregation had sworne vnto them by the Lorde God of Israel: wherefore all the Congregation murmured against the Princes.

    19Then all the Princes said vnto all the Congregation, We haue sworne vnto them by the Lord God of Israel: nowe therefore we may not touch them.

    20But this we wil doe to them, and let them liue, least the wrath be vpon vs because of the othe which we sware vnto them.

  • Josh 9:22-27
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    79%

    22Ioshua then called them, and talked with them, and sayd, Wherefore haue ye beguiled vs, saying, We are very farre from you, when ye dwel among vs?

    23Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood, and drawers of water for the house of my God.

    24And they answered Ioshua, and sayd, Because it was tolde thy seruants, that the Lord thy God had commanded his seruant Moses to giue you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land out of your sight, therefore we were exceeding sore afraid for our liues at the presence of you, and haue done this thing:

    25And beholde nowe, we are in thine hand: doe as it seemeth good and right in thine eyes to doe vnto vs.

    26Euen so did he vnto them, and deliuered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slewe them not.

    27And Ioshua appointed them that same day to be hewers of wood, and drawers of water for the Congregation, and for the altar of the Lord vnto this day, in the place which he should chuse.

  • Josh 9:15-16
    2 verses
    78%

    15So Ioshua made peace with them, & made a league with them, that he would suffer them to liue: also the Princes of the Congregation sware vnto them.

    16But at the end of three dayes, after they had made a league with them, they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.

  • Josh 9:11
    69%

    11Wherefore our elders, and all the inhabitants of our countrey spake to vs, saying, Take vitailes with you for the iourney, and go to meete them, and say vnto them, Wee are your seruants: now therefore make ye a league with vs.

  • Josh 2:13-14
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    69%

    13And that yee will saue aliue my father and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they haue: and that yee will deliuer our soules from death.

    14And the men answered her, Our life for you to die, if ye vtter not this our businesse: and when the Lorde hath giuen vs the lande, we will deale mercifully and truely with thee.

  • Josh 9:6-8
    3 verses
    67%

    6So they came vnto Ioshua into the hoste to Gilgal, and said vnto him, and vnto the men of Israel, Wee be come from a farre countrey: nowe therefore make a league with vs.

    7Then the men of Israel said vnto the Hiuites, It may be that thou dwellest among vs, how then can I make a league with thee?

    8And they said vnto Ioshua, We are thy seruants. Then Ioshua saide vnto them, Who are ye? And whence come ye?

  • Deut 29:11
    67%

    11Your children, your wiues, and thy stranger that is in thy campe from the hewer of thy wood, vnto the drawer of thy water,

  • Neh 5:12
    67%

    12Then said they, We will restore it, and will not require it of them: we will doe as thou hast said. Then I called the Priestes, and caused them to sweare, that they shoulde doe according to this promes.

  • Num 21:18
    66%

    18The princes digged this well, the captaines of the people digged it, euen the lawe giuer, with their staues; from the wildernesse they came to Mattanah,

  • 2 Chr 28:14
    66%

    14So the armie left the captiues & the spoyle before the princes and all the Congregation.

  • Josh 1:16
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    16Then they answered Ioshua, saying, Al that thou hast commaunded vs, we will doe, and whithersoeuer thou sendest vs, we will goe.

  • Deut 29:9
    66%

    9Keepe therefore the wordes of this couenant and doe them, that ye may prosper in all that ye shall doe.

  • Josh 24:21
    66%

    21And the people saide vnto Ioshua, Nay, but we will serue the Lord.

  • Josh 21:1-2
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    66%

    1Then came the principall fathers of the Leuites vnto Eleazar the Priest, and vnto Ioshua the sonne of Nun, and vnto the chiefe fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel,

    2And spake vnto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The Lorde commanded by the hande of Moses, to giue vs cities to dwell in, with the suburbes thereof for our cattell.

  • Josh 22:21
    65%

    21Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad, and halfe the tribe of Manasseh answered, and saide vnto the heads ouer the thousands of Israel,

  • Gen 34:21-22
    2 verses
    65%

    21These men are peaceable with vs: and that they may dwell in the land, and doe their affaires therin (for behold, the land hath roume ynough for them) let vs take their daughters to wiues, and giue them our daughters.

    22Onely herein will the men consent vnto vs for to dwell with vs, and to be one people, if all the men children among vs be circumcised as they are circumcised.

  • 2 Sam 21:5
    65%

    5Then they answered the King, The man that consumed vs and that imagined euill against vs, so that we are destroyed from remaining in any coast of Israel,

  • Judg 21:7
    65%

    7How shal we do for wiues to them that remaine, seeing we haue sworne by the Lorde, that we will not giue them of our daughters to wiues?

  • Exod 5:21
    65%

    21To whom they said, The Lord looke vpon you and iudge: for yee haue made our sauour to stinke before Pharaoh and before his seruants, in that ye haue put a sword in their hand to slay vs.

  • Josh 2:17
    65%

    17And the men said vnto her, We will be blamelesse of this thine othe, which thou hast made vs sweare.

  • Josh 22:1
    65%

    1Then Ioshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh,

  • Ezra 9:1
    64%

    1When as these things were done, the rulers came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the Priestes, and the Leuites are not separated from the people of the lands (as touching their abominations) to wit, of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Iebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

  • Num 31:15
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    15And Moses sayde vnto them, What? haue ye saued all the women?

  • Judg 21:22
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    22And when their fathers or their brethren come vnto vs to complaine, we wil say vnto them, Haue pitie on them for our sakes, because we reserued not to eche man his wife in the warre, and because ye haue not giuen vnto them hitherto, ye haue sinned.

  • Jer 34:19
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    19The princes of Iudah, and the princes of Ierusalem, the Eunuches, and the Priestes, and all the people of the lande, which passed betweene the partes of the calfe,

  • Jer 18:21
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    21Therefore, deliuer vp their children to famine, and let them drop away by the force of the sworde, and let their wiues be robbed of their children, and be widowes: and let their husbandes be put to death, and let their yong men be slayne by the sword in the battell.

  • Deut 9:28
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    28Lest the countrey, whence thou broughtest them, say, Because ye Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, or because he hated them, he caried them out, to slay them in the wildernesse.

  • Josh 22:15
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    15So they went vnto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the halfe tribe of Manasseh, vnto the land of Gilead, and spake with them, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 6:4
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    4So he went with them, & when they came to Iorden, they cut downe wood.

  • Gen 47:25
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    25Then they answered, Thou hast saued our liues: let vs finde grace in the sight of my Lorde, and we will be Pharaohs seruants.

  • Deut 20:9
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    9And after that the officers haue made an ende of speaking vnto the people, they shal make captaines of the armie to gouerne the people.

  • Judg 2:21
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    21Therefore will I no more cast out before them any of the nations, which Ioshua left when he dyed,

  • Exod 1:10
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    10Come, let vs worke wisely with them, least they multiplie, and it come to passe, that if there be warre, they ioyne them selues also vnto our enemies, and fight against vs, and get them out of the land.

  • Num 21:22
    64%

    22Let me goe through thy land: we wil not turne aside into the fieldes, nor into the vineyardes, neither drinke of the waters of ye welles: we will goe by the kings way, vntill we be past thy countrey.