Joshua 9:21

Free Bible Version

The leaders concluded, “Let them live.” So the Gibeonites became woodcutters and water-carriers in service to the entire assembly, as the Israelite leaders had ordered.

Cross References

Jeremiah 46:22

The Egyptians will retreat with a rustle like a snake sliding away, because the enemy will attack them with axes, coming at them like wood-cutters chopping down trees.

Deuteronomy 29:10

Every one of you stands here today before the Lord your God: you tribal leaders, officials, and all the men of Israel,

Deuteronomy 29:11

your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your firewood and carry your water.

Joshua 10:1

Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, learned that Joshua had captured Ai and destroyed the town completely, as he had also done to Jericho, and had killed its king, just as he had the king of Jericho. He also heard that the Gibeonites had made peace with the Israelites and were allied with them.

Joshua 9:15

Then Joshua made a treaty with them, promising to spare their lives, and the leaders of the assembly swore an oath to guarantee it.

Joshua 9:20

So this is what we're going to do to them. We'll let them live, so that we won't be punished for breaking the oath that we swore to them.”

Joshua 9:23

Consequently you are under a curse. From now on you shall forever be servants, woodcutters and water-carriers for the house of my God.”

Joshua 9:27

That day Joshua made them woodcutters and water-carriers in service to the entire assembly and for the altar of the Lord wherever the Lord should choose. That is what they do right up to this very day.