Joshua 9:24-26

International Standard Version

²⁴ They replied to Joshua, “Because your servants had been informed that the Lord your God had certainly commanded his servant Moses to give you the entire land and to destroy all of the inhabitants of the land before you. So we were terrified for our lives because of you. That’s why we did this. ²⁵ Now we’re under your control: do to us as it seems good and right in your opinion.”

²⁶ So this is what Joshua^[a] did for them: he saved them from the Israelis, and they did not kill them.