‏ Joshua 9:14-23

the men took of their victuals or, they received the men by reason of their victuals

asked not Exod 28:30; Num 27:21; Judg 1:1, Judg 20:18, Judg 20:28; 1Sam 14:18-19, 1Sam 22:10, 1Sam 23:9-12; 1Sam 30:7-8; 2Sam 2:1, 2Sam 5:19; 1Chr 10:13-14; Ezra 8:21; Prov 3:5-6; Isa 30:1-2; Jas 1:5

made peace Josh 2:12-19, Josh 6:22-25, Josh 11:19; Deut 20:10-11; 2Sam 21:2; Jer 18:7-8

and the 2Sam 21:2

that they heard Prov 12:19

Gibeon Josh 10:2, Josh 18:25-28; 1Chr 21:29; 2Chr 1:3; Ezra 2:25; Neh 7:29

Kirjathjearim Josh 15:9, Josh 15:60, Josh 18:14; 1Sam 7:1; 1Chr 13:5-6; 2Chr 1:4

had sworn 2Sam 21:7; Ps 15:4; Eccl 5:2, Eccl 5:6, Eccl 9:2

We have Josh 9:20; Eccl 8:2, Eccl 9:2; Jer 4:2

lest wrath 2Sam 21:1-6; 2Chr 36:13; Prov 20:25; Ezek 17:12-21; Zech 5:3-4; Mal 3:5; Rom 1:31; 1Tim 1:10

let them Josh 9:23, Josh 9:27; Deut 29:11; 2Chr 2:17-18

as the princes Josh 9:15

Wherefore Gen 3:13-14, Gen 27:35-36, Gen 27:41-45, Gen 29:25; 2Cor 11:3

We are Josh 9:6, Josh 9:9-10

ye dwell Josh 9:16

Gen 9:25-26; Lev 27:28-29

cursed This may refer to the original curse pronounced against the descendants of Canaan. Both of them seem to have implied nothing else than perpetual slavery. The Gibeonites were brought, no doubt, under tribute; performed the meanest offices for the Israelites; being in the same condition as the servile class of Hindoos, called the Chetrees; had their national importance annihilated, and yet were never permitted to incorporate themselves with the Israelites.

none of you be freed Heb. not be cut off from you

hewers In the East, collecting wood for fuel, and carrying water, are the peculiar employment of females. The Arab women of Barbary, and the daughters of the Turcomans, are thus employed. Hence Mr. Harmer concludes, that the bitterness of the doom of the Gibeonites does not seem to have consisted in the labouriousness of the service enjoined them, but its disgracing them from the characteristic employment of men, that of bearing arms, and condemning them and their posterity for ever to the employment of females. Josh 9:21, Josh 9:27

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