Ezra 7:7
7:7 In the seventh year of King Artaxerxes, Ezra brought
up to Jerusalem
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,
“Let them live.” So they became
woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had decided.
Joshua 9:23
9:23 Now you are condemned to perpetual servitude as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”
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.)
Joshua 9:1-2
The Gibeonites Deceive Israel
9:1 When the news reached all the kings on the west side of the Jordan – in the hill country, the lowlands, and all along the Mediterranean coast as far as Lebanon (including the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites) –
9:2 they formed an alliance to fight against Joshua and Israel.
Nehemiah 3:26
3:26 and the temple servants who were living on Ophel worked
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.