{"id":53648,"date":"2019-04-14T09:40:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T06:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=53648"},"modified":"2022-11-03T18:53:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T16:53:57","slug":"joshua-and-the-gibeonites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/joshua-and-the-gibeonites\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua And The Gibeonites"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[860,806,625,363],"acf":{"old_id":"53648","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33877,"related_cahpter":"196","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Subterfuge, loyalty, revenge","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our chapter relates the story of Joshua and the Gibeonites. After the destruction of Jericho and Ai, the Israelites were commanded to destroy all the inhabitants of Canaan (Joshua 9:24). The people of Gibeon (a Canaanite city ten kilometers northwest of Jerusalem, today identified with the Palestinian village of Al-Jib) heard of this plan. To avoid being wiped out, they sent ambassadors to trick Joshua and the Israelites into making a treaty with them. The Gibeonites presented themselves in worn out clothing and footwear as ambassadors having come from a far distant land. Without consulting God, Joshua entered into a peace treaty with them (Joshua 9:14). Subsequently, the Israelites discovered that the Gibeonites were living just a three day walk from them (Joshua 9:17). Joshua then realized that he had been deceived. However, he kept the covenant with the Gibeonites and let them live in exchange for their servitude, declaring them to be hewers of wood and drawers of water for all time (Joshua 9:3-27).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Jewish tradition (see Ginzberg, Legends of the Jews, \u201c[Joshua] Conquest of the Land\u201d), before Joshua set out on his campaign, he had issued three proclamations: 1) that any nation that would leave Canaan might depart unhindered, 2) that any nation that was willing to make peace with the Israelites should do it at once, and 3) that any nation that would choose to engage in war with the Israelites might do so. So, if the Gibeonites had simply sued for peace with the Israelites, when they heard this proclamation, there would have been no need for them to trick Israel into making a treaty with them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the end, Joshua kept his promise not to destroy them, so as to sanctify the name of God, by showing the world how sacred an oath is to the Israelites. Because of their subterfuge, the Gibeonites were deemed not deserving of being absorbed into the Israelite nation. But rather they became a servant caste: \u201cThat day Joshua gave them to be hewers of wood and drawers of water\u2014as they still are\u2014for the community and for the altar of the Lord, in the place that He would choose\u201d (Joshua 9:27). \u00a0This chosen place was Jerusalem. According to Ezra 8:20, David \u201cgave\u201d the Gibeonites to serve the Levites in the First Temple. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here, and elsewhere, the Gibeonites are referred to as Netinim, because Joshua had \u201cgiven\u201d (natan) them to be hewers of wood and drawers of water. According to the Mishnah (Kiddushin 4:1) these Netinim, though living in the Israelite community, where they worked as Temple servants, were not allowed to intermarry with legitimate Israelites. 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