Joshua 9:21

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And the leaders said to them, Let them live [and be our slaves]. So they became hewers of wood and drawers of water for all the assembly, just as the leaders had said of them.

Cross References

Jeremiah 46:22

The sound [of Egypt fleeing from the enemy] is like the rustling of an escaping serpent, for her foes advance with a mighty army and come against her with axes, like those who fell trees and cut wood.

Deuteronomy 29:10

All of you stand today before the Lord your God–your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

Deuteronomy 29:11

Your little ones, your wives, and the stranger and sojourner in your camp, from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water–

Joshua 10:1

WHEN ADONI-ZEDEK king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai and had utterly destroyed it, doing to Jericho and its king as he had done to Ai and its king, and how the residents of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,

Joshua 9:15

Joshua made peace with them, covenanting with them to let them live, and the assembly's leaders swore to them.

Joshua 9:20

This we will do to them: we will let them live, lest wrath be upon us because of the oath which we swore to them.

Joshua 9:23

Now therefore you are cursed, and of you there shall always be slaves, hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.

Joshua 9:27

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.