1-2. All the kings west of the Jordan in the hills and foothills and along the Mediterranean seacoast north toward Lebanon—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, Girgashites, and Jebusites—got the news. They came together in a coalition to fight against Joshua and Israel under a single command.
7. The men of Israel said to these Hivites, “How do we know you aren’t local people? How could we then make a covenant with you?”
8. They said to Joshua, “We’ll be your servants.”Joshua said, “Who are you now? Where did you come from?”
12-13. “This bread was warm from the oven when we packed it and left to come and see you. Now look at it—crusts and crumbs. And our cracked and mended wineskins, good as new when we filled them. And our clothes and sandals, in tatters from the long, hard traveling.”
14. The men of Israel looked them over and accepted the evidence. But they didn’t ask God about it.