¹⁷ Then the sons of Israel set out and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were ^(A)Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kiriath-jearim.

²² Then Joshua called for them and spoke to them, saying, “Why have you deceived us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ ^(A)when you are living nearly in the midst of us?

² they ^(A)feared exceedingly 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 From the tribe of Benjamin, ^(A)Gibeon with its pasture lands, ^(B)Geba with its pasture lands,