1. Now it came about when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country and in the lowland and on all the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, heard of it,
2. that they gathered themselves together with one accord to fight with Joshua and with Israel.
3. When the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
4. they also acted craftily and set out as envoys, and took worn-out sacks on their donkeys, and wineskins worn-out and torn and mended,