Joshua 9:27 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²⁷ So the five kings of the Amorrhites being assembled together went up: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jerimoth, the king of Lachis, the king of Eglon, they and their armies, and camped about Gabaon, laying siege to it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ But Joshua then made them hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord, to this day, in the place which He should choose.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of Jehovah, unto this day, in the place which he should choose.

Common English Bible

²⁷ That day Joshua assigned them as woodcutters and water haulers for the community and for the LORD’s altar, located wherever God would choose. That is still the case today.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ And he decreed on that day, that they would be in the ministry of all the people and of the altar of the Lord, cutting wood and carrying water, even until this present time, in the place which the Lord had chosen.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ And he gave orders in that day that they should be in the service of all the people, and of the altar of the Lord, hewing wood and carrying water, until this present time, in the place which the Lord hath chosen.

Joshua 9:27 Cross References

2 Chronicles 2:16

Now these are the foundations, which Solomon laid, to build the house of God, the length by the first measure sixty cubits, the breadth twenty cubits.

Numbers 31:28

3 Seventy-two thousand oxen,

Numbers 31:30

5 And thirty-two thousand persons of the female sex, that had not known men.

Numbers 31:47

2 In weight sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty sicles, from the tribunes and from the centurions.

Deuteronomy 12:11

6 Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

Deuteronomy 12:14

9 Take heed thou forsake not the Levite all the time that thou livest in the land.

Deuteronomy 12:5

0 You shall pass over the Jordan, and shall dwell in the land which the Lord your God will give you, that you may have rest from all enemies round about: and may dwell without any fear,

Joshua 9:21

6 So Josue did as he had said, and delivered them from the hand of the children of Israel, that they should not be slain.

Joshua 9:26

Come up to me, and bring help, that we may take Gabaon, because it hath gone over to Josue, and to the children of Israel.