When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it Num 34:6Exo 3:17Exo 23:23Jos 3:10Deu 3:25Deu 4:49Deu 7:1Exo 23:31 they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord. 2Ch 20:1-30Act 4:26-28Isa 54:15Isa 8:12Isa 8:9-10Jol 3:9-13Pro 11:21Psa 2:1-2 But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai, Jos 10:2Jos 9:172Sa 21:1-2Jos 6:1-27Jos 8:1-35 they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wineskins, Luk 16:8Luk 5:37-38Mat 10:16Mrk 2:221Ki 20:31-33Gen 34:13Mat 9:17Psa 119:83 and old and patched sandals on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their food supply was dry and moldy. Luk 15:22Deu 29:5Deu 33:25Jos 9:13 They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us.” Jos 5:102Ki 20:141Ki 8:41Deu 20:11-15Jos 10:43Jos 9:9
The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “What if you live among us? How could we make a covenant with you?” Jos 11:19Jdg 2:2Deu 20:16Deu 7:2-3Exo 23:31-33Exo 3:8Exo 34:12Gen 10:17
They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.” 2Ki 10:5Deu 20:11Jos 9:111Ki 9:20-21Gen 9:25-26Jos 9:23Jos 9:25Jos 9:27
Joshua said to them, “Who are you? Where do you come from?”
They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of the LORD 1 your God; for we have heard of his fame, 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 who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth. Deu 1:4Deu 2:30Jos 12:4Num 21:24-351Ch 6:71 Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, ‘Take supplies in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them. Tell them, “We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us.”’ Est 8:17Jos 9:8Gen 43:12Jos 1:11Luk 9:3Mat 10:9-10 This our bread we took hot for our supplies out of our houses on the day we went out to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and has become moldy. Jos 9:4-5 These wineskins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our sandals have become old because of the very long journey.”
The men sampled their provisions, and didn’t ask counsel from the LORD’s mouth. Pro 3:5-6Num 27:211Ch 10:13-142Sa 5:191Sa 23:9-121Sa 30:7-8Ezr 8:21Isa 30:1-2 Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them. 2Sa 21:2Deu 20:10-11Jos 11:19Jos 6:22-25Exo 23:32Jer 18:7-8Jos 2:12-19 At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them. Pro 12:19 The children of Israel traveled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim. Ezr 2:25Jos 18:25-281Ch 13:5-61Ch 21:291Sa 7:12Ch 1:3-4Jos 10:2Jos 15:60 The children of Israel didn’t strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes. Psa 15:42Sa 21:7Ecc 5:2Ecc 5:6Ecc 9:2 But all the princes said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel. Now therefore we may not touch them. Ecc 8:2Ecc 9:2Jer 4:2Jos 9:20 We will do this to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.” Ezk 17:12-21Mal 3:5Pro 20:251Ti 1:102Ch 36:132Sa 21:1-6Rom 1:31Zec 5:3-4 The princes said to them, “Let them live.” So they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them. Deu 29:11Jos 9:23Jos 9:272Ch 2:17-18Jos 9:15
Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, “Why have you deceived us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you live 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 you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be slaves, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.” Jos 9:21Gen 9:25-26Jos 9:27Lev 27:28-29
They answered Joshua, and said, “Because your servants were certainly told how the LORD your 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 very afraid for 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 Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do.” Gen 16:6Jdg 10:15Jer 26:141Sa 3:182Sa 24:14Isa 47:6Jdg 8:15Jer 38:5
He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn’t kill them. That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for the LORD’s altar to this day, in the place which he should choose. Deu 12:5