Conclusion of The WIse Gibeonites

'Why did you tell us that you came from a distant land?' Joshua asks them.

The Gib'e-on-ites answer:  'We did so because we were told that your God Jehovah had promised to give all this land of Ca'naan to you. So we were afraid you would kill us.' But the Israelites keep their promise, and they do not kill the Gib'e-on-ites. Instead they make them their servants. 

The king of Jerusalem is angry because the Gib'e-on-ites have made peace with Israel. So he says to four other kings:  'Come and help me fight Gib'e-on. And that is what these five kings do.  Were the Gib'e-on-ites wise to make peace with Israel, which  now causes these kings to come fight against them?  We will see.

Joshua 9:1-27; 10:1-5.

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