Joshua 9:22-23

9:22 ¹ Joshua summoned the Gibeonites ²  and said to them, “Why did you trick ³  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 you ⁷  as he promised you he would. ⁸ 

[9:22]  ¹ sn Verses 22-27 appear to elaborate on v. 21b.

[9:22]  ² tn Heb “them.”

[9:22]  ³ tn Or “deceive.”

[9:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “live in our midst?”

[9:23]  ⁵ 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.”

[23:10]  ⁹ tn Or “chases a thousand.”

[23:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “for the Lord your God, he [is] the one who fights for you.”

[23:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “as he said to you.”