And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.
Three days after they had made an agreement with them, the Israelites discovered that these people were actually their neighbors who lived nearby.
The Israelites realized they had been deceived - the people they made a treaty with weren't from a distant land but were actually their close neighbors.
📚 Historical Context
This verse refers to the deception by the Gibeonites, who disguised themselves as travelers from a far country to trick Joshua and the Israelites into making a peace treaty. God had commanded Israel to destroy all the inhabitants of the Promised Land, but the Gibeonites knew this and cleverly avoided destruction by pretending to be foreigners. The Israelites failed to seek God's guidance before making this agreement.
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