King James Version
Joshua 9:25 in the King James Version says “And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.” — study this verse from Joshua chapter 9 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.”
Joshua 9:25 · KJV
Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God. none: Heb. not be cut off from you
And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.
And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.
And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose. made: Heb. gave, or, delivered to be
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“are in thine hand”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
“good”
H2896good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good
“as it seemeth”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
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