Verse 8

They said to Joshua, We are your servants. Joshua said to them, Who are you? and from whence come you?

Referenced Verses

• Deut 20:11 : 11 It shall be, if it make you answer of peace, and open to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.
• 2 Kgs 10:5 : 5 He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who brought up [the children], sent to Jehu, saying, We are your servants, and will do all that you shall bid us; we will not make any man king: you do that which is good in your eyes.
• Josh 9:11 : 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: and now make you a covenant with us.
• Josh 9:23 : 23 Now therefore you are cursed, and there shall never fail to be of you bondservants, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.
• Josh 9:25 : 25 Now, behold, we are in your hand: as it seems good and right to you to do to us, do.
• Josh 9:27 : 27 That day Joshua made those 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.
• 1 Kgs 9:20-21 : 20 As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel; 21 their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants to this day.
• Gen 9:25-26 : 25 He said, "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants will he be to his brothers." 26 He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem; Let Canaan be his servant.