“And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye?”
The Gibeonites reinforce their false claim — They say to Joshua, 'We are your servants.' The term 'servants' ('avadim, עֲבָדִים) would become their actual status, yet here it is deployed deceptively. They claim to come from 'a very far country' (מַרְחַק מְאֹד). The repetition of remoteness, combined with the physical evidence of travel, creates a persuasive narrative that bypasses intellectual scrutiny.
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