Joshua 9:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Joshua made them that day woodcutters and water carriers for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even to this day, in the place which He would choose.

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  • Deut 12:5 : 5 But you shall seek the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put His name there, to His habitation you shall come:

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  • Josh 9:21-24
    4 verses
    81%

    21And the leaders said to them, Let them live; but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for all the congregation, as the leaders had promised them.

    22And Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, Why have you deceived us, saying, We are very far from you; when you dwell among us?

    23Now therefore you are cursed, and none of you shall be freed from being servants, woodcutters, and water carriers for the house of my God.

    24And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told to your servants how the LORD your God commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

  • Josh 9:26
    80%

    26And so he did to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they did not kill them.

  • Josh 4:7-9
    3 verses
    74%

    7Then you shall answer them, That the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be a memorial to the children of Israel forever.

    8And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as the LORD spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.

    9And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there to this day.

  • Josh 11:9-10
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    74%

    9And Joshua did to them as the LORD commanded him: he hamstrung their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.

    10And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword: for Hazor previously was the head of all those kingdoms.

  • Josh 10:26-27
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    73%

    26And afterward Joshua struck them and killed them, and hanged them on five trees; and they were hanging on the trees until evening.

    27So it was at the time of the going down of the sun that Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees, cast them into the cave where they had hidden, and laid large stones against the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.

  • Deut 29:11
    72%

    11Your little ones, your wives, and your foreigners that are in your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water:

  • Josh 8:28-31
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    72%

    28And Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation to this day.

    29And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening; and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his corpse down from the tree and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raise over it a great heap of stones, that remains to this day.

    30Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD God of Israel in Mount Ebal,

    31As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man has lifted up any iron; and they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.

  • Judg 2:7
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    7And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.

  • Josh 4:3-5
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    71%

    3And command them, saying, Take from here out of the midst of the Jordan, from the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and leave them in the place where you will lodge tonight.

    4Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had appointed from the children of Israel, one man from each tribe,

    5And Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of the Jordan, and every one of you take a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel,

  • Josh 7:23
    71%

    23And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them to Joshua, and to all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD.

  • Josh 11:6-7
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    71%

    6And the LORD said to Joshua, Do not be afraid because of them: for tomorrow about this time I will deliver them all slain before Israel: you shall hamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.

    7So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they attacked them.

  • Josh 7:25-26
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    70%

    25And Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? the LORD shall trouble you this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.

    26And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.

  • Josh 11:12
    70%

    12And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, Joshua took, and struck them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.

  • Josh 9:15
    70%

    15And Joshua made peace with them, and made a treaty with them, to let them live: and the leaders of the congregation swore to them.

  • Num 27:22
    70%

    22And Moses did as the LORD commanded him: he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation:

  • Josh 24:25
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    25So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

  • Josh 5:3
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    3And Joshua made sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

  • Josh 3:9
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    9And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come here and hear the words of the LORD your God.

  • Josh 7:6
    70%

    6And Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.

  • Josh 24:22-23
    2 verses
    70%

    22And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.

    23Now therefore put away, said he, the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to the LORD God of Israel.

  • Josh 10:24
    70%

    24And it happened, when they brought those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel and said to the captains of the men of war who went with him, Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings. And they came near and put their feet on their necks.

  • Josh 8:26
    70%

    26For Joshua did not draw his hand back, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

  • Josh 8:35
    70%

    35There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers who were among them.

  • Josh 9:8
    70%

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

  • Exod 17:13
    69%

    13And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

  • Josh 22:1
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    1Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,

  • Josh 1:12
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    12And to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, Joshua spoke, saying,