And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.
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Gill's Exposition
And so did he unto them,.... What was good and right, he showed them favour, and did them justice:
and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not; who were so…
Adam Clarke
And so did he unto them - That is, he acted according to justice and mercy: he delivered them out of the hands of the people, so that they slew them not - here was mercy; and he made them hewers of…
The matter is here settled between Joshua and the Gibeonites, and an explanation of the league agreed upon. We may suppose that now, not the messengers who were first sent, but the elders of Gibeon,…
Cambridge Bible
delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel who would have certainly been glad to destroy them.