Joshua 9:21

9:21 The leaders then added, ¹  “Let them live.” So they became ²  woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had decided. ³ 

Joshua 9:23

9:23 Now you are condemned to perpetual servitude as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.” ⁴ 

Joshua 9:1-2

The Gibeonites Deceive Israel

9:1 When the news reached all the kings on the west side of the Jordan ⁵  – in the hill country, the lowlands, ⁶  and all along the Mediterranean coast ⁷  as far as ⁸  Lebanon (including the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites) – 9:2 they formed an alliance to fight against Joshua and Israel. ⁹ 

Ezra 2:43

2:43 The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, the descendants of Hasupha, the descendants of Tabbaoth,

Ezra 8:20

8:20 and some of the temple servants that David and his officials had established for the work of the Levites – 220 of them. They were all designated by name.

Nehemiah 7:60

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

Nehemiah 11:3

11:3 These are the provincial leaders ¹⁰  who settled in Jerusalem. (While other Israelites, the priests, the Levites, the temple attendants, and the sons of the servants of Solomon settled in the cities of Judah, each on his own property in their cities,

[9:21]  ¹ tc Heb “and the leaders said to them.” The LXX omits the words “and the leaders said to them.”

[9:21]  ² 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.

[9:21]  ³ tn Heb “as the leaders said to them.”

[9:23]  ⁴ 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.”

[9:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan heard.”

[9:1]  ⁶ tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”

[9:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “all the coast of the Great Sea.” The “Great Sea” was the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

[9:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “in front of.”

[9:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “they gathered together to fight against Joshua and Israel [with] one mouth.”

[11:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the heads of the province.”