And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof; Num 34:6Exo 3:17Exo 23:23Jos 3:10Deu 3:25Deu 4:49Deu 7:1Exo 23:31 That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord. 1 2Ch 20:1-30Act 4:26-28Isa 54:15Isa 8:12Isa 8:9-10Jol 3:9-13Pro 11:21Psa 2:1-2
¶ And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai, Jos 10:2Jos 9:172Sa 21:1-2Jos 6:1-27Jos 8:1-35 They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up; Luk 16:8Luk 5:37-38Mat 10:16Mrk 2:221Ki 20:31-33Gen 34:13Mat 9:17Psa 119:83 And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy. Luk 15:22Deu 29:5Deu 33:25Jos 9:13 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us. Jos 5:102Ki 20:141Ki 8:41Deu 20:11-15Jos 10:43Jos 9:9 And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you? Jos 11:19Jdg 2:2Deu 20:16Deu 7:2-3Exo 23:31-33Exo 3:8Exo 34:12Gen 10:17 And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye? 2Ki 10:5Deu 20:11Jos 9:111Ki 9:20-21Gen 9:25-26Jos 9:23Jos 9:25Jos 9:27 And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt, Deu 20:15Jos 9:24Isa 55:5Jos 2:9-101Ki 8:412Ch 6:32-33Exo 15:14Exo 9:16 And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth. Deu 1:4Deu 2:30Jos 12:4Num 21:24-351Ch 6:71 Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: therefore now make ye a league with us. 2 Est 8:17Jos 9:8Gen 43:12Jos 1:11Luk 9:3Mat 10:9-10 This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy: Jos 9:4-5 And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey. And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD. 3 Pro 3:5-6Num 27:211Ch 10:13-142Sa 5:191Sa 23:9-121Sa 30:7-8Ezr 8:21Isa 30:1-2
And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them. 2Sa 21:2Deu 20:10-11Jos 11:19Jos 6:22-25Exo 23:32Jer 18:7-8Jos 2:12-19
¶ And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them. Pro 12:19 And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim. Ezr 2:25Jos 18:25-281Ch 13:5-61Ch 21:291Sa 7:12Ch 1:3-4Jos 10:2Jos 15:60 And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes. Psa 15:42Sa 21:7Ecc 5:2Ecc 5:6Ecc 9:2 But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them. Ecc 8:2Ecc 9:2Jer 4:2Jos 9:20 This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them. Ezk 17:12-21Mal 3:5Pro 20:251Ti 1:102Ch 36:132Sa 21:1-6Rom 1:31Zec 5:3-4 And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them. Deu 29:11Jos 9:23Jos 9:272Ch 2:17-18Jos 9:15
¶ And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among us? Jos 9:6Jos 9:16Gen 27:35-36Gen 27:41-45Gen 29:25Gen 3:13-14Jos 9:9-102Co 11:3 Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God. 4 Jos 9:21Gen 9:25-26Jos 9:27Lev 27:28-29 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing. Deu 20:15-17Deu 7:1-2Exo 23:31-33Mat 10:28Num 33:55-56Deu 7:23-24Exo 15:14-16Job 2:4 And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do. Gen 16:6Jdg 10:15Jer 26:141Sa 3:182Sa 24:14Isa 47:6Jdg 8:15Jer 38:5 And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not. 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. 5 Deu 12:5