¹² Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

³ But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

² that they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men of it were mighty.

⁴ Come up to me, and help me, and let us strike Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.

²⁵ Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,

² When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's host." He called the name of that place Mahanaim.

¹² Then spoke Joshua to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand you still on Gibeon; You, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon.

¹⁴ Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.