Joshua 9:20-22

International Standard Version

²⁰ So this is what we’ll do to them: we’ll let them live, so that wrath won’t come upon us because of the oath that we swore to them.”

²¹ The leaders told them, “Let them live.” So they became wood cutters and water carriers for the entire congregation, which is what the leaders had decided concerning them.

²² Joshua summoned the Gibeonites^[a] and asked them, “Why did you deceive us by saying ‘We live far away from you,’ even though you were, in fact, living in our midst?