Joshua 9:22-23

9:22 ¹Joshua summoned the Gibeonites² and said to them, “Why did you trick³ us by saying, ‘We live far away from you,’ when you really live nearby?⁴ 9:23 Now you are condemned to perpetual servitude as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”⁵

Joshua 23:10

23:10 One of you makes a thousand run away,⁶ for the Lord your God fights for you⁷ as he promised you he would.⁸

¹sn Verses 22-27 appear to elaborate on v. 21b.

²tn Heb “them.”

³tn Or “deceive.”

⁴tn Heb “live in our midst?”

⁵tn 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.”

⁹tn Or “chases a thousand.”

¹⁰tn Heb “for the Lord your God, he [is] the one who fights for you.”

¹¹tn Heb “as he said to you.”