Joshua 9:21

New American Bible - revised edition

Thus the leaders said to them, “Let them live, and become hewers of wood and drawers of water for the entire community.” So the community did as the leaders advised them.

Cross References

Jeremiah 46:22

Her voice is like a snake! Yes, they come in force; They attack her with axes, like those who fell trees.

Deuteronomy 29:10

your children, your wives, and the resident alien who lives in your camp, from those who cut wood to those who draw water for you—

Deuteronomy 29:11

to enter into the covenant of the Lord, your God, which the Lord, your God, is making with you today, with its curse,

Joshua 10:1

Now when Adonizedek, king of Jerusalem, heard that Joshua had captured Ai and put it under the ban, and had done to that city and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made their peace with Israel, remaining among them,

Joshua 9:15

So Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant to let them live, which the leaders of the community sealed with an oath. Gibeonites Made Vassals.

Joshua 9:20

Let us therefore let them live, and so deal with them that no wrath fall upon us because of the oath we have sworn to them.”

Joshua 9:23

Now are you accursed: every one of you shall always be a slave, hewers of wood and drawers of water, for the house of my God.”

Joshua 9:27

on that day he made them, as they still are, hewers of wood and drawers of water for the community and for the altar of the Lord, in the place the Lord would choose.