" The Gibeonites were not Israelites, but the remnant of the Amorites, which Saul pursued from within Israel.

According to the Bible, the Israelites captured and destroyed Lachish for joining the league against the Gibeonites ( Joshua 10: 31-33 ), but its territory was later assigned to the tribe of Judah ( 15: 39 ) and became a part of the Kingdom of Israel.

and describes the Gibeonites as not being Israelites, but as Amorites.

Without consulting the high priests, Israel entered into a mutual pact with the Gibeonites.

Armoni and Mephibosheth ( Saul's sons with his concubine, Rizpah ) were given by David along with the five sons of Merab ( Saul's daughter ) to the Gibeonites, who killed them.

The Gibeonites were said to be their descendants, being an offshoot of the Amorites that made a covenant with the Hebrews ; when Saul would break that vow and kill some of the Gibeonites, God sent a famine to Israel.

Joshua realized he had been deceived, but he kept the letter of his covenant with the Gibeonites to let them live ; however, he cursed and enslaved them as woodcutters and water-carriers ().

Kiriath-jearim was mentioned as a Hivite city and connected with the Gibeonites ( see Joshua 9: 17 ).

David inquired of the Gibeonites what satisfaction they demanded, and was answered that nothing would compensate for the wrong Saul had done to them but the death of seven of Saul's sons.

:“ And they handed them over to the Gibeonites, and they impaled them on the mountain before YHVH, and all seven of them fell together.

indicates that Saul pursued the Gibeonites and sought to kill them off " in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah ".

After David became king of the United Monarchy, he handed over Armoni and Mephibosheth, two of the sons of Saul and the five sons of Merab ( Saul's daughter ) to the Gibeonites, who hanged them.

Disobedience appears in the story of Achan ( stoned for violating the herem command ), the Gibeonites, and the altar built by the Transjordan tribes.

The five sons that sprang from this union were put to death by the Gibeonites ( 2 Sam.

Much later, after the death of Absalom and king David's restoration to his throne, Israel was visited by a grievous famine, which was believed to be as a result of King Saul's treatment of the Gibeonites.

The term was applied originally in the Book of Joshua ( where it is found in its verbal form ) to the Gibeonites who converted during the time of Joshua, later in the Book of Ezra they include the Avdei Shlomo (" Servants of Solomon ") the descendants of the remnant of the Canaanite people in the land.

In Judaism, the alleged descendants of the Gibeonites are treated differently from ordinary Jews.

The Gibeonites presented themselves as ambassadors from a distant, powerful land.

This calamity was believed to have happened because of " Saul and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.

These the Gibeonites put to death, and hung up their bodies at the sanctuary at Gibeah.

The Kenites, the Gibeonites, and the Cherethites and Pelethites were thus admitted to levels of Israelite privileges.

After the destruction of Jericho and Ai, the people of Gibeon ( Hivites ) sent ambassadors to trick Joshua and the Israelites into making a treaty with them.

Knowing of Daniel's devotion to his God, these officials trick the king into issuing an edict forbidding worship of any other god or man for a 30 day period.

The Baltimore Suns Linda White recalled, " I followed the adventures of Winnie Winkle, Moon Mullins and Dondi, and waited each fall to see how Lucy would manage to trick Charlie Brown into trying to kick that football.

Mandinga can be translated into magic, or spell, but in capoeira a mandinguero is a clever fighter, able to trick the opponent.

However, as with the ILOVEYOU worm, and with the increased growth and efficiency of phishing attacks, it remains possible to trick the end-user into running malicious code.

To trick the eye and brain into thinking they are seeing a smoothly moving object, the pictures should be drawn at around 12 frames per second ( frame / s ) or faster ( a frame is one complete image ).

Simple switched Ethernet networks, while a great improvement over repeater-based Ethernet, suffer from single points of failure, attacks that trick switches or hosts into sending data to a machine even if it is not intended for it, scalability and security issues with regard to broadcast radiation and multicast traffic, and bandwidth choke points where a lot of traffic is forced down a single link.

While Snake is forced to fight with a prisoner named Slag ( Ox Baker ), Brain and Maggie trick the Duke's men into letting them see the President.

Her boyfriend Nicholas hangs his buttocks out of a window, hoping to trick Absolon into kissing his buttocks in turn and then passes gas in the face of his rival.

Some shock sites display a single picture, animation, video clip or a small gallery, and are often passed around via e-mail or disguised in posts to discussion sites as a hoax in an attempt to trick users into following the link to the website ( a bait and switch ).

Lilith as serpent then proceeds to trick Eve into eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge and in this way is responsible for the downfall of all of mankind.

Many riddles trick the reader into believing that they are an example of the gambler's fallacy, such as the Monty Hall problem.

When Laban planned to deceive Jacob into marrying Leah instead of Rachel, the Midrash recounts that both Jacob and Rachel suspected that Laban would pull such a trick ; Laban was known as the " Aramean " ( deceiver ), and changed Jacob's wages ten times during his employ ( Genesis 31: 7 ).

In these shows, the illusionists used the magic lantern to trick people into thinking that they had summoned up spirits of revolutionary figures with the lantern mounted on a trolley.

In July 2009, the Neopets site was the target of an identity theft hacking scheme that attempted to trick users into clicking a link that would allow them to gain items or neopoints.

The trick is to code two states of the PDA into the nonterminals of the grammar.

In tournament play, some players employ tactics to confuse or trick the other player into making an illegal move, resulting in a loss.

In 2366, the Romulans attempted to trick the Enterprise-D into crossing the Neutral Zone, where two Romulan Warbirds were waiting to capture or — if necessary — destroy it.

Circa stardate 51721. 3 ( September 20, 2374 ), Starfleet Captain Benjamin Sisko and Elim Garak tried to trick the Romulans into joining the war against the Dominion by faking recordings of a Dominion strategy meeting discussing the plan to conquer the Romulans along with the Klingons and Federation.

Sabata and If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death, directed by Gianfranco Parolini introduces into similar betrayal environments a kind of hero molded on the Mortimer character from For a Few Dollars More, only without any vengeance motive and with more outrageous trick weapons.

Typically players are free to play any card into a trick in the first phase of the game, but must follow suit as soon as the score is depleted.

Prometheus asked Zeus ' opinion on which offering pile he found more desirable, hoping to trick the god into selecting the less desirable portion.

He was mentioned in the story " A Christmas for Shacktown " ( 1952 ) by Carl Barks, in which Donald Duck dresses up as Jake in an attempt to trick Scrooge into giving money to charity.

Saladin tries to trick Melchizedek into giving offense ( and justifying the seizure of his wealth ) by asking him whether Judaism, Christianity, or Islam law is the true word of God.