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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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cursed
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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. Gen 9:25,26; Lev 27:28,29 |
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none of you be freed
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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. Jos 9:21,27 |
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Gen 9:25 |
And he said, Cursed [be] Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. |
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Gen 9:26 |
And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. |
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Lev 27:28 |
Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, [both] of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing [is] most holy unto the LORD. |
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Lev 27:29 |
None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; [but] shall surely be put to death. |
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Jos 9:21 |
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. |
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Jos 9:27 |
And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Joshua 9:23," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Jos/9/23.html>.
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