Joshua 9:26

26 So Joshua did not allow the people of Israel to kill them.

Joshua 9:26 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 9:26

And so did he unto them
What was good and right, he showed them favour, and did them justice:

and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that
they slew them not;
who were so incensed against them for imposing on them in the manner they did, that they were ready many of them to draw their swords and slay them; and would have done it, had it not been for the interposition of Joshua, and the orders he gave to the contrary.

Joshua 9:26 In-Context

24 They replied, “We did it because we—your servants—were clearly told that the LORD your God commanded his servant Moses to give you this entire land and to destroy all the people living in it. So we feared greatly for our lives because of you. That is why we have done this.

25 Now we are at your mercy—do to us whatever you think is right.”

26 So Joshua did not allow the people of Israel to kill them.

27 But that day he made the Gibeonites the woodcutters and water carriers for the community of Israel and for the altar of the LORD —wherever the LORD would choose to build it. And that is what they do to this day.