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# Gibeon, Gibeonite #
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## Facts: ##
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Gibeon was a city that was located about 13 kilometers northwest of Jerusalem. The people living in Gibeon were the Gibeonites.
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* When the Gibeonites heard about how the Israelites had destroyed the cities of Jericho and Ai, they were afraid.
* So the Gibeonites came to the leaders of Israel at Gilgal and pretended to be people from a far-away country.
* The Israelite leaders were deceived and made an agreement with the Gibeonites that they would protect them and not destroy them.
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(See also: [[other/gilgal]] ** ·** [[other/jericho]] ** ·** [[other/jerusalem]])
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## Bible References: ##
* [1 Chronicles 08:29-31 ](en/tn/1ch/help/08/29 )
* [1 Kings 03:4-5 ](en/tn/1ki/help/03/04 )
* [2 Samuel 02:12-13 ](en/tn/2sa/help/02/12 )
* [Joshua 09:3-5 ](en/tn/jos/help/09/03 )
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## Examples from the Bible stories: ##
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__ *[15:06](en/tn/obs/help/15/06)__ But one of the Canaanite people groups, called the __Gibeonites__ , lied to Joshua and said they were from a place far from Canaan.
__ *[15:07](en/tn/obs/help/15/07)__ Sometime later, the kings of another people group in Canaan, the Amorites, heard that the __Gibeonites__ had made a peace treaty with the Israelites, so they combined their armies into one large army and attacked __Gibeon__ .
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__ *[15:08](en/tn/obs/help/15/08)__ So Joshua gathered the Israelite army and they marched all night to reach the __Gibeonites__ .
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