Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.
Cursed
Hewers
General references
Bible References
Cursed
Leviticus 27:28
"'Surely anything which a man permanently dedicates to the Lord from all that belongs to him, whether from people, animals, or his landed property, must be neither sold nor redeemed; anything permanently dedicated is most holy to the Lord.
Hewers
Joshua 9:21
The leaders then added, "Let them live." So they became woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had decided.
General references
Joshua 9:8
But they said to Joshua, "We are willing to be your subjects." So Joshua said to them, "Who are you and where do you come from?"