Jos 9 | TSK | STEP | The kings combine against Israel. The Gibeonites by craft obtain a league. They are condemned to perpetual bondage. all the kings. on this. of the great. Lebanon. Hittite.

ambassadors.The word {tzir,} an ambassador, properly denotes a hinge; because an ambassador is a person upon whom the business turns as upon a hinge. So the Latin {Cardinalis,} from {cardo,} a hinge, was the title of the prime minister of the emperor Theodosius, though now applied only to the Pope's electors and counsellors.

wine bottles.These bottles being made of skin, were consequently liable to be rent, and capable of being mended; which is done, according to Chardin, by putting in a piece, or by gathering up the wounded piece in the manner of a purse; and sometimes by inserting a flat piece of wood.

Ps 119:83; Mt 9:17; Mr 2:22; Lu 5:37,38

old shoes.

13; De 29:5; 33:25; Lu 15:22

clouted.The word clouted signifies here patched, from the Anglo-Saxon {clut,} a clout or rag; and not nailed from the French {clou,} a nail.

the camp.

5:10; 10:43

We be.

9; De 20:11-15; 1Ki 8:41; 2Ki 20:14

make ye.{Kirthoo lanoo berith,} "cut or divide with us a covenant," or rather the covenant sacrifice offered on these occasions. (See Note on De 29:12.)

Hivites.

11:19; Ge 10:17; 34:2; Ex 3:8

how shall.

Ex 23:31-33; 34:12; Nu 33:52; De 7:2,3; 20:16; Jud 2:2

11,23,25,27; Ge 9:25,26; De 20:11; 1Ki 9:20,21; 2Ki 10:5

From a.

De 20:15

because.

1Ki 8:41; 2Ch 6:32,33; Ne 9:5; Ps 72:19; 83:18; 148:13; Isa 55:5

Ac 8:7

we have.

24; 2:9,10; Ex 9:16; 15:14; Nu 14:15; Isa 66:19

two kings.

Nu 21:24-35; De 2:30-37; 3:1-7

Ashtaroth.

12:4; De 1:4; 1Ch 6:71

our elders.

Es 8:17

Take.

1:11; Mt 10:9,10; Lu 9:3

with you. Heb. in your hand.

Ge 43:12

We are your.

8; Es 8:17

our bread.

4,5

the men took of their victuals. or, they received the men byreason of their victuals. asked not.

Ex 28:30; Nu 27:21; Jud 1:1; 20:18,28; 1Sa 14:18,19; 22:10; 23:9-12

1Sa 30:7,8; 2Sa 2:1; 5:19; 1Ch 10:13,14; Ezr 8:21; Pr 3:5,6

Isa 30:1,2; Jas 1:5

made peace.

2:12-19; 6:22-25; 11:19; De 20:10,11; 2Sa 21:2; Jer 18:7,8

and the.

2Sa 21:2

that they heard.

Pr 12:19

Gibeon.

10:2; 18:25-28; 1Ch 21:29; 2Ch 1:3; Ezr 2:25; Ne 7:29

Kirjath-jearim.

15:9,60; 18:14; 1Sa 7:1; 1Ch 13:5,6; 2Ch 1:4

had sworn.

2Sa 21:7; Ps 15:4; Ec 5:2,6; 9:2

We have.

20; Ec 8:2; 9:2; Jer 4:2

lest wrath.

2Sa 21:1-6; 2Ch 36:13; Pr 20:25; Eze 17:12-21; Zec 5:3,4; Mal 3:5

Ro 1:31; 1Ti 1:10

let them.

23,27; De 29:11; 2Ch 2:17,18

as the princes.

Wherefore.

Ge 3:13,14; 27:35,36,41-45; 29:25; 2Co 11:3

We are.

6,9,10

ye dwell.

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.

See on

Ge 9:25,26; Le 27:28,29

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.

21,27

the Lord.

Ex 23:31-33; Nu 33:51,52,55,56; De 7:1,2,23,24; 20:15-17

we were sore.

Ex 15:14-16; Job 2:4; Mt 10:28

we are.

Ge 16:6; Jud 8:15; 2Sa 24:14; Isa 47:6; Jer 26:14; 38:5

as it seemeth.

Jud 10:15; 1Sa 3:18; Mt 11:26

made them. Heb. gave, or delivered to be.

21,23; 1Ch 9:2; Ezr 2:43; 8:20; Ne 7:60; 11:3

Nethinim. in the place.

18:1; De 12:5; 16:2,6,16; 2Ch 6:6; Ps 78:68; 132:13,14; Isa 14:32