Charles Ellicott Commentary Joshua 9:16

"And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they dwelt among them." — Joshua 9:16 (ASV)

Their neighbours, and they that dwelt among them. —Literally, and that they (the Gibeonites) were dwellers in the midst of him (Israel). (So Joshua 9:7.)