Joshua 9:21

Modern English Version

The leaders of the congregation also said to them, “Let them live!” So they became woodcutters and water carriers for the whole congregation, as the leaders told them.

Cross References

Jeremiah 46:22

Its sound goes along like a serpent, for they march on as an army, and come against her with axes, as choppers of wood.

Deuteronomy 29:10

Today all of you stand before the Lord your God, the heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,

Deuteronomy 29:11

your little ones, your wives, and your foreigners who are in your camp, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water —

Joshua 10:1

Now when King Adoni-Zedek of Jerusalem heard that Joshua captured Ai and destroyed it, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,

Joshua 9:15

Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.

Joshua 9:20

This is what we will do to them. We will let them live so that wrath will not come upon us due to the oath that we swore to them.”

Joshua 9:23

Therefore now you are cursed, and you will always be slaves, cutting wood and carrying water for the house of my God.”

Joshua 9:27

That day he made them woodcutters and water carriers for the congregation and the altar of the Lord, even to this day, at the place He would choose.