Joshua 9:26

So Joshua saved the lives of the people of Gibeon by not allowing the Israelis to kill them.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.

In Context

25So now you can decide what you will do with us. Do what you think is right.”

27Instead, he forced them to become the Israelis’ slaves. They cut wood and carried water for the Israelis. They also brought the wood and water that was needed for the sacred altar of Yahweh, to whatever place Yahweh decided that they should build one. And the people of Gibeon are still doing that.

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Matthew Henry on Joshua 9:23-27

The Gibeonites Made Bondmen. ( b. c. 1450.) 22 And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among us? 23 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. 24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the Lord thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to… Read the whole commentary →

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