Deuteronomy 7:2Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spellingand when thy Lord God hath betaken them to thee, thou shalt smite them unto death, thou shalt not make with them a bond of peace, neither thou shalt have mercy upon them, See the chapter |
Therefore when [the] Gibeonites were called, the king said to them; soothly Gibeonites be not of the sons of Israel, but they be the relics or remnants of Amorites; and the sons of Israel had sworn to them, that they should not slay them, and Saul would smite them for his fervent love, as for the sons of Israel and of Judah;
Which answered, It was told to us thy servants, that thy Lord God promised to Moses, his servant, that he should betake to you all the land, and should lose all the dwellers thereof; therefore we dreaded greatly, and purveyed to our lives, and we were compelled by your dread, and we took this counsel.