“And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among us?”
Joshua questions the Gibeonites — Joshua called the Gibeonites and said to them, Why did you deceive us, saying, 'We are very far from you,' when you dwell among us? The confrontation reveals Joshua's knowledge and his anger, yet the deed is done. Joshua's question ('Why did you deceive us?') invokes the deception's technical violation ('we are very far from you'), which the Gibeonites themselves now live to contradict by dwelling 'among us' (בְקִרְבֵּנוּ).
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