Joshua 9:14-23

¹⁴Then they took of the meats of these men, and they asked not counsel of the Lord.

¹⁵And Joshua made peace with them. And when the bond of peace was made, he promised, that they should not be slain; and the princes of the multitude swore to them.

¹⁶And after three days of the bond of peace made, the men of Israel heard, that those men dwelled in nigh place, and that they should be soon among those men.

¹⁷And the sons of Israel moved their tents, and came in the third day into the cities of them, of which cities these be the names; Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kiriathjearim.

¹⁸And Israel destroyed not them, for the princes of the multitude had sworn to them in the name of the Lord God of Israel. Therefore all the common people grutched against the princes of Israel;

¹⁹and the princes answered to them, We swore to them in the name of the Lord God of Israel, and therefore we may not touch them;

²⁰but we shall do this thing to them; be they kept that they live, lest the ire of the Lord be stirred against us, if we forswear us to them;

²¹but so live they, that they hew trees, and bear waters, into the uses of all the multitude. And while they spake these things,

²²Joshua called Gibeonites, and said to them, Why would ye deceive us by fraud, that ye said, We dwell full far from you, since ye be in the midst of us?

²³Therefore ye shall be under cursing, and none shall fail of your generation, hewing trees and bearing waters, into the house of my God.