¹⁵ So Joshua ^(A)made peace with them, and made a covenant with them to let them live; and the rulers of the congregation swore to them.

² So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but ^(A)of the remnant of the Amorites; the children of Israel had sworn protection to them, but Saul had sought to kill them ^(B)in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah.

¹⁹ There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except ^(A)the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. All the others they took in battle.

¹⁰ “When you go near a city to fight against it, ^(A)then proclaim an offer of peace to it. ¹¹ And it shall be that if they accept your offer of peace, and open to you, then all the people who are found in it shall be placed under tribute to you, and serve you.

²² But Joshua had said to the two men who had spied out the country, “Go into the harlot’s house, and from there bring out the woman and all that she has, ^(A)as you swore to her.” ²³ And the young men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab, ^(B)her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. So they brought out all her relatives and left them outside the camp of Israel. ²⁴ But they burned the city and all that was in it with fire. Only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord. ²⁵ And Joshua spared Rahab the harlot, her father’s household, and all that she had. So ^(C)she dwells in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.