Joshua 9:21

They also said, “Let them live.” So the Gibeonites became woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had promised them.

Deuteronomy 29:11

your children, your wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—

Joshua 9:23

Therefore you are cursed and will always be slaves—woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”

Joshua 9:27

On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers—as they are today—for the community and for the Lord’s altar at the place He would choose.

Joshua 9:15

So Joshua established peace with them and made a treaty to let them live, and the leaders of the community swore an oath to them.

2 Chronicles 2:17-18

Solomon took a census of all the foreign men in the land of Israel, after the census that his father David had conducted, and the total was 153,600.

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Summary

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.

As the princes

Bible References

Let them

Joshua 9:23
Therefore you are cursed and will always be slaves—woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”
Deuteronomy 29:11
your children, your wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—
2 Chronicles 2:17
Solomon took a census of all the foreign men in the land of Israel, after the census that his father David had conducted, and the total was 153,600.

As the princes

Joshua 9:15
So Joshua established peace with them and made a treaty to let them live, and the leaders of the community swore an oath to them.

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