1. And it came to pass when all the kings which were beyond Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;
2. that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
3. But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
4. they also did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wineskins, old and rent and bound up;
5. and old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and was become mouldy.
6. And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We are come from a far country: now therefore make ye a covenant with us.