¹⁷ Then the children of Israel journeyed and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were ^(A)Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kirjath Jearim.

²² Then Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, “Why have you deceived us, saying, ^(A)‘We are very far from you,’ when ^(B)you dwell near us?

² that they ^(A)feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

¹⁷ and from the tribe of Benjamin, ^(A)Gibeon with its common-land, ^(B)Geba with its common-land,

David Avenges the Gibeonites

21 Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David ^(A)inquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, “It is because of Saul and his ^[a]bloodthirsty house, because he killed the Gibeonites.”