¹⁵ Then Joshua made a treaty of peace^(A) with them to let them live,^(B) and the leaders of the assembly ratified it by oath.

² The king summoned the Gibeonites^(A) and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not a part of Israel but were survivors of the Amorites; the Israelites had sworn to spare them, but Saul in his zeal for Israel and Judah had tried to annihilate them.)

¹⁹ Except for the Hivites^(A) living in Gibeon,^(B) not one city made a treaty of peace^(C) with the Israelites, who took them all in battle.

¹⁰ When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace.^{(A) 11} If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject^(B) to forced labor^(C) and shall work for you.

²² Joshua said to the two men^(A) who had spied out^(B) the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her.^(C)” ²³ So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother, her brothers and sisters and all who belonged to her.^(D) They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel.

²⁴ Then they burned the whole city^(E) and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron^(F) into the treasury of the Lord’s house.^{(G) 25} But Joshua spared^(H) Rahab the prostitute,^(I) with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho^(J)—and she lives among the Israelites to this day.