But you may take the women, dependents, animals, and whatever else is in the city #– #all its spoil #– #as plunder. You may enjoy the spoil of your enemies that the Lord your God has given you.
They replied to him, ‘Your servants have come from a faraway land because of the reputation of the Lord your God. For we have heard of his fame, and all that he did in Egypt,
The Gibeonites answered him, ‘It was clearly communicated to your servants that the Lord your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you. We greatly feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we did this.