Joshua 9:24-26
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
24 They answered Joshua, “Your servants were fully informed of how the Lord, your God, commanded Moses his servant that you be given the entire land and that all its inhabitants be destroyed before you. Since, therefore, at your advance, we were in great fear for our lives, we acted as we did.(A) 25 And now that we are in your power, do with us what is good and right in your eyes.” 26 [a]Joshua did what he had decided: while he saved them from being killed by the Israelites,
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- 9:26–27 Later on, Saul violated the immunity of the Gibeonites, but David vindicated it; cf. 2 Sm 21:1–9.
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