11th November – Joshua #5 – The Gibeonite Deception

You

Matter to

God.

You matter to Us.

Desperate to avoid being slaughtered in a war with the Israelites, the Gibeonites employed a deception which fooled even Joshua. Were they an early example of what Jesus meant when he told the disciples to be “as wise as serpents and as harmless as doves”? (Matt 10.16 AV)