<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>was it for sure that the gibeonites <br></span></div><div><span>tricked bnei yisrael/into signing a <br></span></div><div><span>treaty???? <br></span></div><div><span>why was were we bound by a <br></span></div><div><span>false treaty / pretense??? or was <br></span></div><div><span>it to avoid a chilul Hashem that</span></div><div><span>Yehoshua kept his word???<br></span></div><div> from wikipedia:<br><h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Joshua.27s_treaty_with_the_Hivites">Joshua's treaty with the Hivites</span></h3>
<div>After the destruction of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho" title="Jericho">Jericho</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_%28Bible%29" title="Ai (Bible)">Ai</a>, the people of Gibeon (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hivites" title="Hivites" class="mw-redirect">Hivites</a>) sent ambassadors to trick <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua" title="Joshua">Joshua</a>
and the Israelites into making a treaty with them. According to the
Bible, the Israelites were commanded to destroy all inhabitants of
Canaan. The Gibeonites presented themselves as ambassadors from a
distant, powerful land. Without consulting the high priests, Israel
entered into a mutual pact with the Gibeonites. Joshua realized he had
been deceived, but he kept the letter </div><br></div><div>hmz</div><div><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:arial, helvetica, clean,
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