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The Gibeonites secure a treaty with Israel

The Gibeonites disguised themselves as travelers from a distant land, and Israel made a covenant without seeking counsel from the LORD. When the deception was discovered, Joshua honored the oath but assigned them service for the sanctuary (Joshua 9:1-27).

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📖 Joshua 9:1–3

1Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)— 2they came together to wage war against Joshua and Israel. 3But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

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Sources: Scripture — Joshua 9:1-27
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