1. When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it
2. 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 to Jericho and to Ai,
4. they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wine skins,
5. and old and patched shoes on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their food supply was dry and moldy.