Teks -- Joshua 9:27 (NET)

9:27 and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the Lord at the divinely chosen site. (They continue in that capacity to this very day.)

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Jos 9:27 - The altar of the Lord

By which appears, that they were not only to do this service in God's house, but upon all other occasions, as the congregation needed their help.

JFB: Jos 9:27 - hewers of wood and drawers of water

The menials who performed the lowest offices and drudgery in the sanctuary; whence they were called Nethinims (1Ch 9:2; Ezr 2:43; Ezr 8:20); that is, given, appropriated. Their chastisement thus brought them into the possession of great religious privileges (Psa 84:10).

TSK: Jos 9:27 - made them // in the place

made them : Heb. gave, or delivered to be, Jos 9:21, Jos 9:23; 1Ch 9:2; Ezr 2:43, Ezr 8:20; Neh 7:60, Neh 11:3, Nethinim

in the place : Jos 18:1; Deu 12:5, Deu 16:2, Deu 16:6, Deu 16:16; 2Ch 6:6; Psa 78:68, Psa 132:13, Psa 132:14; Isa 14:32

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Jos 9:27

By which it appears that they were not only to do this service in God’ s house, but upon all other occasions, as the congregation needed or required their help.

Haydock: Jos 9:27 - Chosen

Chosen in the tabernacle and temple. (Menochius) ---

In these Gabaonites, of the race of Chanaan, the prediction of Noe, that he should serve Sem, was fulfilled, Genesis ix. (Worthington)

Gill: Jos 9:27 - 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

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; See Gill on Jos 9:21,

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 Deu 12:5.