The Amorites: The Gibeonites a Tribe of, Deceived Israel Into a League

At this, David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but in his zeal for Israel and Judah, Saul had sought to kill them.)

But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai, …