Ezra 7:7

7:7 In the seventh year of King Artaxerxes, Ezra brought ¹  up to Jerusalem ²  some of the Israelites and some of the priests, the Levites, the attendants, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants.

Joshua 9:21

9:21 The leaders then added, ³  “Let them live.” So they became ⁴  woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had decided. ⁵ 

Joshua 9:23

9:23 Now you are condemned to perpetual servitude as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.” ⁶ 

Joshua 9:27

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.) ⁷ 

Joshua 9:1-2

The Gibeonites Deceive Israel

9:1 When the news reached all the kings on the west side of the Jordan ⁸  – in the hill country, the lowlands, ⁹  and all along the Mediterranean coast ¹⁰  as far as ¹¹  Lebanon (including the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites) – 9:2 they formed an alliance to fight against Joshua and Israel. ¹² 

Nehemiah 3:26

3:26 and the temple servants who were living on Ophel worked ¹³  up to the area opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the protruding tower.

Nehemiah 7:60

7:60 All the temple servants and the descendants of the servants of Solomon, 392.

¹ tc The translation reads the Hiphil singular וַיַּעֲל (vayya’al, “he [Ezra] brought up”) rather than the Qal plural וַיַּעַלוּ (vayya’alu, “they came up”) of the MT.

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³ tc Heb “and the leaders said to them.” The LXX omits the words “and the leaders said to them.”

⁴ tn The vav (ו) consecutive construction in the Hebrew text suggests that the narrative resumes at this point. The LXX reads here, “and they will be,” understanding what follows to be a continuation of the leaders’ words rather than a comment by the narrator.

⁵ tn Heb “as the leaders said to them.”

⁶ tn 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.”

⁷ tn 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 which he chooses.”

⁸ tn Heb “When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan heard.”

⁹ tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “all the coast of the Great Sea.” The “Great Sea” was the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

¹¹ tn Heb “in front of.”

¹² tn Heb “they gathered together to fight against Joshua and Israel [with] one mouth.”

¹³ tc The Hebrew text lacks the verb “worked.” It is implied, however, and has been supplied in the translation.