Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent as the enemy advances in force; they will come against her with axes, like men who cut down trees.
Joshua 9:21 - New International Version (Anglicised) They continued, ‘Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water-carriers in the service of the whole assembly.’ So the leaders’ promise to them was kept. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them. 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. American Standard Version (1901) And the princes said unto them, Let them live: so they became hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation, as the princes had spoken unto them. Common English Bible The leaders went on to say to them, “Let them live.” So they became woodcutters and water haulers for the whole community, exactly as the leaders had intended for them. Catholic Public Domain Version But though they live, let them serve the entire multitude by cutting wood and carrying water." And while they were discussing these things, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But so let them live, as to serve the whole multitude in hewing wood, and bringing in water. As they were speaking these things, |
Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent as the enemy advances in force; they will come against her with axes, like men who cut down trees.
All of you are standing today in the presence of the Lord your God – your leaders and chief men, your elders and officials, and all the other men of Israel,
together with your children and your wives, and the foreigners living in your camps who chop your wood and carry your water.
Now Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Ai and totally destroyed it, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and that the people of Gibeon had made a treaty of peace with Israel and had become their allies.
Then Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the assembly ratified it by oath.
This is what we will do to them: we will let them live, so that God’s wrath will not fall on us for breaking the oath we swore to them.’
You are now under a curse: you will never be released from service as woodcutters and water-carriers for the house of my God.’
That day he made the Gibeonites woodcutters and water-carriers for the assembly, to provide for the needs of the altar of the Lord at the place the Lord would choose. And that is what they are to this day.