Verse 21

The leaders then added,“Let them live.” So they became woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had decided.

Referenced Verses

• Deut 29:11 : 11 your infants, your wives, and the resident foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water–
• Josh 9:23 : 23 Now you are condemned to perpetual servitude as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”
• Josh 9:27 : 27 and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the LORD at the divinely chosen site.(They continue in that capacity to this very day.)
• 2 Chr 2:17-18 : 17 Solomon took a census of all the male resident foreigners in the land of Israel, after the census his father David had taken. There were 153,600 in all. 18 He designated 70,000 as common laborers, 80,000 as stonecutters in the hills, and 3,600 as supervisors to make sure the people completed the work.
• Josh 9:15 : 15 Joshua made a peace treaty with them and agreed to let them live. The leaders of the community sealed it with an oath.