our lives = our souls. Hebrew. Nephesh. See App-13.
LORD. There is an Homoeoteleuton (App-6) here, preserved in the Septuagint; a scribe going back to the former of the two words "Lord"; and reading ' the altar of Jehovah [and the inhabitants of Gibeon became hewers of wood and drawers of water for the altar of Jehovah]", even unto this day, &c.
even. Supply Figure of speech Ellipsis (App-8), thus = "[as they are] even".