Yehoshua 9:24-26

Orthodox Jewish Bible

²⁴ And they answered Yehoshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy avadim, how that Hashem Eloheicha commanded His Eved Moshe to give you kol HaAretz, and to destroy all the inhabitants of HaAretz from before you, therefore we were greatly afraid for nafshoteinu because of you, so we have done this thing.

²⁵ And now, behold, we are in thine yad; as it seemeth tov and yashar unto thee to do unto us, do.

²⁶ And so did he unto them, and saved them out of the yad of the Bnei Yisroel, that they slaughtered them not.