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,
5. and worn-out and patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out clothes on themselves; and all the bread of their provision was dry and had become crumbled.
6. They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, "We have come from a far country; now therefore, make a covenant with us."
7. The men of Israel said to the Hivites, "Perhaps you are living within our land; how then shall we make a covenant with you?"
8. But they said to Joshua, "We are your servants." Then Joshua said to them, "Who are you and where do you come from?"