Joshua 9:21-27
let them.23,27; De 29:11; 2Ch 2:17,18as the princes.15 Wherefore.Ge 3:13,14; 27:35,36,41-45; 29:25; 2Co 11:3We are.6,9,10ye dwell.16 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 onGe 9:25,26; Le 27:28,29none 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; 20:15-17we 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; 38:5as it seemeth.Jud 10:15; 1Sa 3:18; Mt 11:26 26 made them. Heb. gave, or delivered to be.21,23; 1Ch 9:2; Ezr 2:43; 8:20; Ne 7:60; 11:3Nethinim. in the place.18:1; De 12:5; 16:2,6,16; 2Ch 6:6; Ps 78:68; 132:13,14; Isa 14:32Ezra 2:43
Nethinims.58; 1Ch 9:2; Ne 7:46-56; 10:28Hasupha.This variation only exists in the translation, the original being written here Husupha, and in the parallel place defectively, Hasupha. Ne 7:46Hashupha.Ezra 2:58
Nethinims.7:7; Jos 9:21,23,27; 1Ch 9:2; Ne 3:26; 7:60Solomon's.1Ki 9:21Ezra 8:20
Nethinims.17; 2:43; 7:7; 1Ch 9:2all of them.Php 4:3Nehemiah 7:60
the Nethinims.Ezr 2:58Nehemiah 7:73
all Israel.It was for the purpose of ascertaining the different families, and consequently the different cities, villages, etc., which belonged to them, according to the ancient division of the land, that the public registers were examined. when the seventh.Ezr 2:70; 3:1Nehemiah 11:3
Now.There is a good deal of difference between this enumeration and that in Chronicles; as this comprehends not only those who came first with Zerubbabel, but also those who came with Ezra and Nehemiah: see on 1 Ch 9:18. the chief.7:6; Ezr 2:1Israel.7:73; 1Ch 9:1-3; Ezr 2:70Nethinims.Ezr 2:43,55the children.7:57-60; Ezr 2:55-58Nehemiah 11:21
the.3:26,31; 2Ch 27:3Ophel. or, the tower.
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