If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you.
Because the Israelites are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves.
On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers, as they are to this day for the congregation of the LORD and fo
But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they want war.
When Israel became stronger, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor, but they never drove them out completely.
Zebulun failed to drive out the inhabitants of Kitron and Nahalol; so the Canaanites lived among them and served as forc
No city made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites living in Gibeon; all others were taken in battle.
But they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. So the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day,
Then Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said, “Why did you deceive us by telling us you live far away from us, when in f
their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction—Solomon consc