²⁴ And they answered Joshua and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants how that Jehovah thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; and we feared greatly for our lives because of you, and did this thing.

²⁵ And now behold, we are in thy hand: as it is good and right in thine eyes to do to us, do.

²⁶ And he did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, and they did not slay them.