Joshua 9:21-27
21And the leaders said to them, “Let them live.” So they became acutters of wood and drawers of water for all the congregation, just as the leaders bhad said of them.22Joshua summoned them, and he said to them, “Why did you deceive us, saying, c‘We are very far from you,’ when dyou dwell among us? 23Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you shall never be anything but servants, ecutters of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.” 24They answered Joshua, “Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the Lord your God had fcommanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you—so gwe feared greatly for our lives because of you and did this thing. 25And now, behold, we are in your hand. Whatever seems good and right in your sight to do to us, do it.” 26So he did this to them and delivered them out of the hand of the people of Israel, and they did not kill them. 27But Joshua made them that day hcutters of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord, to this day, iin the place that he should choose.
Ezra 2:43
43 jThe temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth,Ezra 2:58
58All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon’s servants were 392.Ezra 8:20
20 kbesides 220 of the temple servants, whom David and his officials had set apart to attend the Levites. These were all lmentioned by name.Nehemiah 7:60
60All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon’s servants were 392.Nehemiah 7:73
73So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their towns.mAnd when the seventh month had come, the people of Israel were in their towns.
Nehemiah 11:3
3 nThese are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem; but in the towns of Judah oeveryone lived on his property in their towns: Israel, the priests, the Levites, pthe temple servants, qand the descendants of Solomon’s servants.Nehemiah 11:21
21 rBut the temple servants lived on Ophel; and Ziha and Gishpa were over the temple servants.
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