Joshua 9:21

The leaders told them, "Let them live." So they became wood cutters and water carriers for the entire congregation, which is what the leaders had decided concerning them.

Deuteronomy 29:11

along with your children, your wives, even the foreigner in your camp, including the woodchopper and the water drawer

Joshua 9:23

Now therefore you are under a curse. Some of you will always be slaves, wood cutters, and water carriers for the house of my God."

Joshua 9:27

However, on that very day Joshua made them become wood cutters and water carriers for the congregation and for the LORD's altar in the place that he should choose, and this tradition continues to this day.

Joshua 9:15

They made a treaty with them, guaranteeing their lives with a covenant, and the leaders of the congregation confirmed it with an oath to them.

2 Chronicles 2:17-18

Solomon took a census of all the non-Israeli men who lived in the land of Israel, after the census that his father David had taken, and 153,600 were counted.

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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
Now therefore you are under a curse. Some of you will always be slaves, wood cutters, and water carriers for the house of my God."
Deuteronomy 29:11
along with your children, your wives, even the foreigner in your camp, including the woodchopper and the water drawer
2 Chronicles 2:17
Solomon took a census of all the non-Israeli men who lived in the land of Israel, after the census that his father David had taken, and 153,600 were counted.

As the princes

Joshua 9:15
They made a treaty with them, guaranteeing their lives with a covenant, and the leaders of the congregation confirmed it with an oath to them.

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