Bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God. —The precedent established in regard to the Gib…

Now therefore you [are] cursed
Appear to be the posterity of cursed Canaan, and, notwithstanding the artifice used, …

The Gibeonites do not justify their lie, but plead that they did it to save their lives. And the fear was not merely of the power of man—from which…