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Joshua 9
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Trickery by the Gibeonites

9Eventually all the kings who reigned in the hill country across the Jordan River and in the low-lying coastlands of the Mediterranean Sea facing Lebanon heard about this. So the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the JebusitesH4428H5676H3383H2022H8219H2348H1419H3220H4136H3844H2850H567H3669H6522H2340H2983H8085
2united together as one to fight against both Joshua and Israel.1H6908H3162H3898H3091H3478H259H6310
3But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,H3427H1391H8085H3091H6213H3405H5857
4they took the initiative by preparing their provisions shrewdly: they took tattered sacks for their donkeys, worn-out, torn, and mended wineskins,H6213H6195H3212H6737H3947H1087H8242H2543H3196H4997H1087H1234H6887
5worn-out, patched sandals for their feet, and worn-out clothes. All of their food was dried out and covered in mold.H1087H5275H2921H7272H1087H8008H3899H6718H3001H5350
6Then they approached Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and addressed him and the Israelites, "We've arrived from a distant country, so please make a treaty with us right now."H3212H3091H4264H1537H559H376H3478H935H7350H776H3772H1285
7But the Israelites responded to the Hivites, "Perhaps you live in our midst. If this is so, how can we make a treaty with you?"H376H3478H559H2340H194H3427H7130H3772H1285
8So they responded to Joshua, "We are your servants." Joshua asked them, "Who are you?And where did you come from?"H559H3091H5650H3091H559H370H935
9They answered, "Your servants have arrived from a very distant land, because of the reputation of the Lord your God, because we've heard a report about all that he did in Egypt,H559H3966H7350H776H5650H935H8034H3068H430H8085H8089H6213H4714
10along with all of what he did to the two Amorite kings who were beyond the Jordan River - that is, to King Sihon of Heshbon and to King Og of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.H6213H8147H4428H567H5676H3383H5511H4428H2809H5747H4428H1316H6252
11So our leaders and all of the inhabitants of our country told us, 'Take provisions along with you for your journey, go to meet them, and tell them, "We are your servants. Come now and make a treaty with us."'H2205H3427H776H559H559H3947H6720H3027H1870H3212H7125H559H5650H3772H1285
12Look at our bread: it was still warm when we took it from our houses as our food for our journey on the very day we set out to come to you. But now, look how it's dry and moldy.H3899H2525H6679H1004H3117H3318H3212H3001H5350
13And these wineskins were new when we filled them, but look - now they're cracked. And our clothes and sandals are worn out from our very long journey."H4997H3196H4390H2319H1234H8008H5275H1086H3966H7230H1870
14So the leaders of Israel sampled their provisions, but did not ask the Lord about it.H582H3947H6718H7592H6310H3068
15They made a treaty with them, guaranteeing their lives with a covenant, and the leaders of the congregation confirmed it with an oath to them.H3091H6213H7965H3772H1285H2421H5387H5712H7650
16But three days after they had made the treaty with them, they learned that they were their neighbors and were living in their midst.H7097H7969H3117H310H3772H1285H8085H7138H3427H7130
17So the Israelites set out for their cities and three days later they reached their cities of Gibeon, Cherphirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.H1121H3478H5265H935H5892H7992H3117H5892H1391H3716H881H7157
18The Israelites did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had made an oath with them in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. Nevertheless, the entire congregation grumbled against their leaders.916H1121H3478H5221H5387H5712H7650H3068H430H3478H5712H3885H5387
19Then all of the leaders spoke to the entire congregation, "We have sworn to them in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, and we cannot touch them.H5387H559H5712H7650H3068H430H3478H3201H5060
20So this is what we'll do to them: we'll let them live, so that wrath won't come upon us because of the oath that we swore to them."H6213H2421H7110H7621H7650
21The leaders said to them, "Let them live." So they became wood cutters and water carriers for the entire congregation, which is what the leaders had decided concerning them.H5387H559H2421H2404H6086H7579H4325H5712H5387H1696
22Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and asked them, "Why did you deceive us by saying 'We live far away from you,' even though you were, in fact, living in our midst?H3091H7121H1696H559H7411H559H3966H7350H3427H7130
23Now therefore you are under a curse. Some of you will always be slaves, wood cutters, and water carriers for the house of my God."H779H3772H5650H2404H6086H7579H4325H1004H430
24They replied to Joshua, "Because your servants had been informed that the Lord your God had certainly commanded his servant Moses to give you the entire land and to destroy all of the inhabitants of the land before you. So we were terrified for our lives because of you. That's why we did this.H6030H3091H559H5046H5046H5650H3068H430H6680H5650H4872H5414H776H8045H3427H776H6440H3966H3372H5315H6440H6213H1697
25Now we're under your control: do to us as it seems good and right in your opinion."H2009H3027H5869H2896H3477H6213H6213
26So this is what Joshua did for them: he saved them from the Israelites, and they did not kill them.H6213H5337H3027H1121H3478H2026
27However, on that very day Joshua made them become wood cutters and water carriers for the congregation and for the Lord's altar in the place that he should choose, and this tradition continues to this day.H3091H5414H3117H2404H6086H7579H4325H5712H4196H3068H3117H4725H977


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