Joshua 9:26
24 The Gibeonites answered, “Your servants were told clearly that the LORD your God had commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land and wipe out all its inhabitants before you. So we greatly feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we have done this.
25 Now we are in your hands. Do to us whatever seems good and right to you.”
So Joshua did this and delivered them from the hands of the Israelites, and they did not kill the Gibeonites.
27 On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers, as they are to this day for the congregation of the LORD and for the altar at the place He would choose.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- So Joshua did this and delivered them from the hands of the Israelites, and they did not kill the Gibeonites.
- KJV
- And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.
- WEB
- He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn’t kill them.
- ASV
- And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.
- DARBY
- And he did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, and they did not slay them.
- BLB
- And he did to them so, and he snatched them way out of the hand of the sons of Israel, so that they did not kill them.
- ÅB
- Og han gjorde slik[^2] med dem; han reddet dem av Israels barns hånd, så de ikke slo dem ihjel;
- OTB
- Så sparte Josva dem fra israelittene, og de ble ikke drept.
- B1930
- Og han gjorde således med dem; han reddet dem av Israels barns hånd, så de ikke slo dem ihjel; / < JOS 9, 21.>