Lev 25:42-46, Jos 9:22-23, 27, 11:19-20, 16:10, Judg 1:28, 30-35 | TSK | STEP | my servants. as bondsmen. Heb. with the sale of a bondman.

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.

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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

‏ Joshua 9:27

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

‏ Joshua 11:19-20

the Hivites.

9:3-27

it was.

Ex 4:21; 9:16; De 2:30; Jud 14:4; 1Sa 2:25; 1Ki 12:15; 22:20-23

2Ch 25:16; Isa 6:9,10; Ro 9:18,22,23

as the Lord.

12-15; De 20:16,17

‏ Joshua 16:10

they drave.

15:63; Jud 1:29; 1Ki 9:16,21

the Canaanites dwell.

Nu 33:52-55; De 7:1,2

‏ Judges 1:28

‏ Judges 1:30-35

Kitron.The Talmudists say Kitron is "tzippor," that is, Sepphoris, or Diocæsarea, a celebrated city of Galilee, now the village Safoury, situated in the plain of Esdraelon, twenty miles (north-west) from Tiberias, according to Benjamin of Tudela.

Nahalol.

Jos 19:15

Asher.

Jos 19:24-30

Accho.Accho, the Ptolemais of the Greeks and Romans, and called Saint John of Acre by the Crusaders, is situated on the Mediterranean, in a fine plain, at the north angle of a bay to which it gives name, and which extends in a semicircle of three leagues as far as Carmel, and nine leagues from Tyre.

Zidon.Another celebrated city of Phoenicia, now Saidè, situated in a fine country on the Mediterranean, 400 stadia from Berytus, and 200 (north) from Tyre, according to Strabo, one day's journey from Paneas, according to Josephus, and sixty-six miles from Damascus, according to Abulfeda.

Achzib.Or, Ecdippa, now Zib, nine miles north, from Accho.

Ps 106:34,35

Naphtali.

Jos 19:32-38

he dwelt.

became.

Aijalon.

Shaalbim.

prevailed. Heb. was heavy.