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 mouldy.
6. They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us.”
7. The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “What if you live amongst us? How could we make a covenant with you?”
8. They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.”Joshua said to them, “Who are you? Where do you come from?”
9. They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of the Lord your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,