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Text -- Joshua 9:9-27 (NET)

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9:9 They told him, “Your subjects have come from a very distant land because of the reputation of the Lord your God, for we have heard the news about all he did in Egypt 9:10 and all he did to the two Amorite kings on the other side of the Jordan– King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan in Ashtaroth. 9:11 Our leaders and all who live in our land told us, ‘Take provisions for your journey and go meet them. Tell them, “We are willing to be your subjects. Make a treaty with us.”’ 9:12 This bread of ours was warm when we packed it in our homes the day we started out to meet you, but now it is dry and hard. 9:13 These wineskins we filled were brand new, but look how they have ripped. Our clothes and sandals have worn out because it has been a very long journey.” 9:14 The men examined some of their provisions, but they failed to ask the Lord’s advice. 9:15 Joshua made a peace treaty with them and agreed to let them live. The leaders of the community sealed it with an oath. 9:16 Three days after they made the treaty with them, the Israelites found out they were from the local area and lived nearby. 9:17 So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities– Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim. 9:18 The Israelites did not attack them because the leaders of the community had sworn an oath to them in the name of the Lord God of Israel. The whole community criticized the leaders, 9:19 but all the leaders told the whole community, “We swore an oath to them in the name of the Lord God of Israel. So now we can’t hurt them! 9:20 We must let them live so we can escape the curse attached to the oath we swore to them.” 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. 9:22 Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said to them, “Why did you trick us by saying, ‘We live far away from you,’ when you really live nearby? 9:23 Now you are condemned to perpetual servitude as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.” 9:24 They said to Joshua, “It was carefully reported to your subjects how the Lord your God commanded Moses his servant to assign you the whole land and to destroy all who live in the land from before you. Because of you we were terrified we would lose our lives, so we did this thing. 9:25 So now we are in your power. Do to us what you think is good and appropriate. 9:26 Joshua did as they said; he kept the Israelites from killing them 9:27 and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the Lord at the divinely chosen site. (They continue in that capacity to this very day.)
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Amorites members of a pre-Israel Semitic tribe from Mesopotamia
 · Ashtaroth pagan god images of the Canaanite goddess Ashtoreth,a town of Manasseh about 35 km east of the sea of Chinnereth
 · Bashan a region east of Lake Galilee between Mt. Hermon and Wadi Yarmuk
 · Beeroth a resident(s) of the town of Beeroth
 · Chephirah a town of the Gibeonites in Benjamin
 · Egypt descendants of Mizraim
 · Gibeon a town of Benjamin pioneered by Jeiel of Benjamin
 · Heshbon a town of south-eastern Judah
 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel
 · Jordan the river that flows from Lake Galilee to the Dead Sea,a river that begins at Mt. Hermon, flows south through Lake Galilee and on to its end at the Dead Sea 175 km away (by air)
 · Joshua a son of Eliezer; the father of Er; an ancestor of Jesus,the son of Nun and successor of Moses,son of Nun of Ephraim; successor to Moses,a man: owner of the field where the ark stopped,governor of Jerusalem under King Josiah,son of Jehozadak; high priest in the time of Zerubbabel
 · Moses a son of Amram; the Levite who led Israel out of Egypt and gave them The Law of Moses,a Levite who led Israel out of Egypt and gave them the law
 · Og king of Bashan whom Israel defeated.
 · Sihon the king of the Amorites in Moses time


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Gibeon | Alliances | Kirjath-jearim | Lies and Deceits | Slave | God | Alliance | Canaan | Magnanimity | Joshua | Israel | Servant | Contracts | Treaty | Oath | Diplomacy | Government | Confidence | Craftiness | Deception | more
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NET Notes: Jos 9:9 Heb “the report about him, all that he did in Egypt.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:11 Heb “your servants.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:12 Or “moldy.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:14 Heb “but they did not ask the mouth of the Lord.” This refers to seeking the Lord’s will and guidance through an oracle.

NET Notes: Jos 9:15 Heb “Joshua made peace with them and made a treaty with them to let them live, and the leaders of the community swore an oath to them.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:16 Heb “At the end of three days, after they made the treaty with them, they heard that they were neighbors to them and in their midst they were li...

NET Notes: Jos 9:18 Or “grumbled against.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:19 Or “touch.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:20 Heb “This is what we will do to them, keeping them alive so there will not be upon us anger concerning the oath which we swore to them.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:21 Heb “as the leaders said to them.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:22 Heb “live in our midst?”

NET Notes: Jos 9:23 Heb “Now you are cursed and a servant will not be cut off from you, woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:24 Or “we were very afraid.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:25 Heb “according to what is good and according to what is upright in your eyes to do us, do.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:26 Heb “And he did to them so and he rescued them from the hand of the sons of Israel and they did not kill them.”

NET Notes: Jos 9:27 Heb “and Joshua made them in that day woodcutters and water carriers for the community, and for the altar of the Lord to this day at the place w...

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