Joshua 9:21

World English Bible (2000)

The princes said to them, "Let them live, so they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them."

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  • Deut 29:11 : 11 your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;
  • Josh 9:23 : 23 Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be bondservants, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God."
  • Josh 9:27 : 27 That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place which he should choose.
  • 2 Chr 2:17-18 : 17 Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred. 18 He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people at work.
  • Josh 9:15 : 15 Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.

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  • Josh 9:18-20
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    18 The children of Israel didn't strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.

    19 But all the princes said to all the congregation, "We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.

    20 This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them."

  • Josh 9:22-27
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    22 Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, "Why have you deceived us, saying, 'We are very far from you,' when you live among us?

    23 Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be bondservants, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God."

    24 They answered Joshua, and said, "Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh 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.

    25 Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do."

    26 He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn't kill them.

    27 That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place which he should choose.

  • Josh 9:15-16
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    15 Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.

    16 It happened at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.

  • Josh 9:11
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    11 Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, 'Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, "We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us."'

  • Josh 2:13-14
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    13 and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death."

    14 The men said to her, "Our life for yours, if you don't talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you."

  • Josh 9:6-8
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    6 They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, "We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us."

    7 The men of Israel said to the Hivites, "What if you live among us. How could we make a covenant with you?"

    8 They said to Joshua, "We are your servants." Joshua said to them, "Who are you? Where do you come from?"

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    11 your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;

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    12 Then they said, "We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say." Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.

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    18 the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter, and with their poles." From the wilderness [they traveled] to Mattanah;

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    14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly.

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    16 They answered Joshua, saying, "All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.

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    9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

  • Josh 24:21
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    21 The people said to Joshua, "No; but we will serve Yahweh."

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  • Josh 22:21
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    21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel,

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    21 "These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

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    5 They said to the king, "The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

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    7 How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?"

  • Exod 5:21
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    21 and they said to them, "May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."

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    17 The men said to her, "We will be guiltless of this your oath which you have made us to swear.

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

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    15 Moses said to them, "Have you saved all the women alive?

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    4 So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

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