1. All the kings west of the Jordan River heard about these things: the kings of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. They lived in the mountains and on the western hills and along the whole Mediterranean Sea coast.
2. So all these kings gathered to fight Joshua and the Israelites.
3. When the people of Gibeon heard how Joshua had defeated Jericho and Ai,
4. they decided to trick the Israelites. They gathered old sacks and old leather wine bags that were cracked and mended, and they put them on the backs of their donkeys.