Joshua met them and said, “Why did you trick us, saying, ‘We are very distant from you,’ but you are living in our midst?
And in the morning, behold, it was Leah. And he said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve you for Rachel? Why then have you tricked me?”
But I fear that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve through his trickery, so your minds might be led astray from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were neighbors to them and lived among them.
But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,
They went to Joshua at the Gilgal settlement and said to him and the Israelites, “We have come from a distant land. Now make a pact with us.”