Joshua 9:26

So Joshua did this for them: He delivered them out of the control of the people of Israel, so that the Israelites did not kill them.

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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

25Now, look, you hold us in your power. Whatever seems good and right for you to do to us, do it.”

27That day Joshua made the Gibeonites cutters of wood and drawers of water for the community, and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place that Yahweh chooses.

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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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