Joshua 9:21

2 Chronicles 2:17; 2 Chronicles 2:18; Deuteronomy 29:11; Joshua 9:15; Joshua 9:23; Joshua 9:27

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Render “they shall be hewers of wood and drawers of water:” menial duties belonging to the lowest classes only (compare the marginal reference). Th...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 9. The Stratagem of the Gibeonites. This account, though composite, is straightforward enough if Joshua 9:17-21 be omitted. These verses...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

be . become. promised. Compare Joshua 9:15 .
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 prom...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The League with the Gibeonites Joshua 9 forms an introduction to the narrative of the Southern campaign ( Joshua 10 ). The Gibeonite cities were...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hewers of wood, etc.] This is the description of the normal function of resident aliens in Deuteronomy 29:11 . From Joshua 9:23 ; Joshua 9:27 w...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XVIII. THE STRATAGEM OF THE GIBEONITES. Joshua 9:1-27 . WE now resume the thread of the story interrupted by the narrative of the trans...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water” Joshua 9:16-27 The faith of these people was so far rewarded that, while their deception was punished by...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The fame and the dread of the people by this time were spreading far and wide. The kings of Canaan, conscious of their danger, formed a league agains...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Observe, how the Lord overruled the minds of his people, in behalf of Gibeon. See this doctrine illustrated more fully: Genesis 20:3-7 .
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the princes said to them, let them live ,.... They were very pressing upon them, and importunate with them, to save their lives, because of the...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 pro...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Unto all the congregation That is, let them be public servants, and employed in the meanest offices (one kind being put for all the rest) for the u...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

DECEIVED BY THE GIBEONITES (vs.1-27) The calm deliberation with which the Lord was acting gave time for the forces of the enemy to be marshaled a...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The League with the Gibeonites. B. C. 1450....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

i.e. Let them be public servants, and employed in the meanest offices and drudgeries, (such as this was, this one kind being put for all the rest, as...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ And the princes said to them, “Let them live, so they become hewers of wood, and drawers of water to all the congregation”, as the princes had sp...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 9:17 . On the third day] That is the same as “at the end of three days” in Joshua 9:16 . “The armed men would move from...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joshua 9:1 . All the kings to fight with Joshua. They realized the ancient proverb, Quem Deus vult perdere, primum dementat. He whom God destroy...
The Biblical Illustrator

The inhabitants of Gibeon . .. did work wilily. A Canaanitish stratagem I. How this device originated. 1. Their wisdom suggested it. The...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE GIBEONITES .— Joshua 9:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings. According to the explanation given above ( Joshua 6:...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Deception Discovered and Punished.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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 prom...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Unto all the congregation — That is, Let them be public servants, and employed in the meanest offices, (one kind being put for all the rest) for th...

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.

Related Commentaries of Joshua 9:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Joshua 9:21