Joshua 9:20 — Meaning and Application

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“This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.”

Joshua 9:20

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And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.

But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.

This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.

And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.

And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We {are} very far from you; when ye dwell among us?

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Joshua 9:1

"And it came to pass, when all the kings which {were} on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard {thereof};"

Joshua 9:2

"That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord. {accord: Heb. mouth}"

Joshua 9:3

"And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,"

Joshua 9:4

"They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;"

Joshua 9:5

"And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry {and} mouldy."

Joshua 9:6

"And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us."

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