Joshua, Chapter 9,
Verse 22-24
22 Joshua
summoned the Gibeonites and said to them, “Why did you deceive us and say, ‘We
live far off from you’?—You live among us! 23 Now are you accursed: every one of you shall
always be a slave, hewers of wood and drawers of water, for the house of my
God.” 24 They answered Joshua, “Your servants were fully
informed of how the LORD, your God, commanded Moses his servant that you
be given the entire land and that all its inhabitants be destroyed before you.
Since, therefore, at your advance, we were in great fear for our lives, we acted as we did.
If only our nation
returned to wisdom and prayed and sought the Lord’s instruction before we entered
into any treaties with other nations; sadly we too are like Joshua.
I
prayed, and prudence was given me; I pleaded, and the spirit of wisdom came to
me. I preferred her to scepter and throne, and deemed riches nothing in
comparison with her, nor did I liken any priceless gem to her; because all
gold, in view of her, is a little sand, and before her, silver is to be
accounted mire. Beyond health and comeliness I loved her, and I chose to have
her rather than the light, because the splendor of her never yields to sleep. Yet
all good things together came to me in her company, and countless riches at her
hands. (Wis. 7:7-11)
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