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Joshua 9:25 Meaning & Commentary – Do What Seems Good

And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.

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Joshua 9:24 Meaning & Commentary – We Feared Greatly

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…

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Joshua 9:23 Meaning & Commentary – Cursed to Serve

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.

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Joshua 9:22 Meaning & Commentary – Deception Revealed

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?

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Joshua 9:21 Meaning & Commentary – Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water

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.

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Joshua 9:20 Meaning & Commentary – Honor the Oath

This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.

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Joshua 9:19 Meaning & Commentary – Honor Your Oaths

But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.

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Joshua 9:18 Meaning & Commentary – Israel’s Oath to the Gibeonites

And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against…

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Joshua 9:17 Meaning & Commentary – The Journey to Gibeon

And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.

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Joshua 9:16 Meaning & Commentary – Three Days Later

And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they…