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Joshua 9:15 (JPS)
And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the princes of the congregation swore unto them.
 
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Joshua 9:16
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16.)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.
 

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[FONT=&quot]Joshua 9:17
"So the Israelites set out and on the third day came to their cities: Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] and Kiriath Jearim."[/FONT]
 
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Joshua 9:18 (NASB)
[SUP]18 [/SUP] The sons of Israel did not strike them because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD the God of Israel. And the whole congregation grumbled against the leaders.
 
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Joshua 9:19
New International Version (NIV)

but all the leaders answered, “We have given them our oath by the LORD, the God of Israel, and we cannot touch them now.
 
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Joshua 9:21
King James Version(KJV)

21.)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.
 
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Joshua 9:22 (NASB)
[SUP]22 [/SUP] Then Joshua called for them and spoke to them, saying, "Why have you deceived us, saying, 'We are very far from you,' when you are living within our land?
 
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Joshua 9:23
New International Version (NIV)

You are now under a curse: You will never be released from service as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”
 
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Joshua 9:24
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24.)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.
 
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Joshua 9:25 (KJV) And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.
 
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Joshua 9:26 (NASB)
[SUP]26 [/SUP] Thus he did to them, and delivered them from the hands of the sons of Israel, and they did not kill them.
 

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Joshua 9:27 (NASB)
But Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord, to this day, in the place which He would choose.
 
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Joshua 10:1 (KJV)
Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;
 

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[FONT=&quot]Joshua 10:2
"He and his people were very much alarmed at this, because Gibeon was an important city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were good fighters."[/FONT]
 

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Joshua 10:3 (JPS)
Wherefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying:
 

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Joshua 10:4 (JPS)
Come up unto me, and help me, and let us smite Gibeon; for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.’
 
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Joshua 10:5
King James Version(KJV)

5.)Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it.
 
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Joshua 10:6
New International Version (NIV)

The Gibeonites then sent word to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal: “Do not abandon your servants. Come up to us quickly and save us! Help us, because all the Amorite kings from the hill country have joined forces against us.”