Joshua 9:16-18

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Gibeon’s Deception Discovered

¹⁶ Three days after making the treaty with them, they heard that the Gibeonites were their neighbors, living among them. ¹⁷ So the Israelites set out and reached the Gibeonite cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.^{(A) 18} But the Israelites did not attack them, because the leaders of the community had sworn an oath^(B) to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. Then the whole community grumbled against the leaders.