Joshua 9:8

New American Bible - revised edition

But they answered Joshua, “We are your servants.” Then Joshua asked them, “Who are you? Where do you come from?”

Cross References

2 Kings 10:5

So the master of the palace and the chief of the city, along with the elders and the guardians, sent this message to Jehu: “We are your servants, and we will do everything you tell us. We will proclaim no one king; do whatever you think best.”

Deuteronomy 20:11

If it agrees to your terms of peace and lets you in, all the people to be found in it shall serve you in forced labor.

Joshua 10:6

Thereupon, the Gibeonites sent an appeal to Joshua in his camp at Gilgal: “Do not abandon your servants. Come up here quickly and save us. Help us, because all the Amorite kings of the mountain country have joined together against us.” Joshua’s Victory.

Joshua 9:11

So our elders and all the inhabitants of our land said to us, ‘Take along provisions for the journey and go to meet them. Say to them: “We are your servants; now make a covenant with us.”’

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 9:25

And now that we are in your power, do with us what is good and right in your eyes.”

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.