Josua 9:27

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men tillika bestämde Josua på den dagen att de skulle bliva vedhuggare och vattenbärare och vid HERRENS altare -- såsom de äro ännu i dag -- på den plats som han skulle utvälja.

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made them: Heb. gave, or delivered to be, Joshua 9:21, Joshua 9:23, 1 Chronicles 9:2, Ezra 2:43, Ezra 8:20, Nehemiah 7:60, Nehemiah 11:3, Nethinim

in the place: Joshua 18:1, Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 16:2, Deuteronomy 16:6, Deuteronomy 16:16, 2 Chronicles 6:6, Psalms 78:68, Psalms 132:13, Psalms 132:14, Isaiah 14:32

Reciprocal: Genesis 9:25 - a servant Deuteronomy 20:11 - tributaries Deuteronomy 20:16 - General Joshua 9:8 - General Ezra 2:58 - Nethinims Nehemiah 10:34 - the wood offering Psalms 123:2 - as the eyes Ezekiel 48:18 - that serve

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Joshua made them that day,.... Constituted and appointed them, ordered and settled them, in the post and office after mentioned; or "gave" them u; hence some think they had the name Nethinim, persons given to the Levites for the service of the sanctuary: namely, to be

hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the Lord; some think they were employed both for the service of the congregation, when they wanted wood and water, and for the altar, and what belonged to it, that needed both. Abarbinel supposes that they served the congregation while they were engaged in war, and subduing the land, but after the division of the land they only served the sanctuary; :-;

even unto this day in the place which he should choose; to have the tabernacle pitched, and the altar set up therein, as it was in various places, before the temple built by Solomon at Jerusalem, which was the place the Lord chose; and this shows that the writer of this book lived before the building of the temple, or otherwise it, is highly probable he would have expressly mentioned it; whereas he uses only the phrase that Moses frequently expressed it by in his time; see

Deuteronomy 12:5.

u ויתנם "deditque eos", Montanus. Vatablus, Drusius.