... > Bible > Old Testament > Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua: from the bondage of the Israelites in Egypt to their settlement in Canaan > the book of Joshua (Josue) > the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites under Joshua's leadership (part I) > the ruse of the Gibeonites (Joshua 9) > the people of Gibeon, dressed up in rags, and pretending to have come from a distant land ask Joshua to make a treaty with them