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We hope to see you at the conference in March.

Joshua and Israel entered into a covenant with Gibbon and when they realized, the Bible says,

three days later that the Gibibianites were actually their

next-door neighbors and that they had lied and had not actually come from a far-off distant land,

but were inhabitants of the land of Canaan, the very land that God had promised to give Israel

as an inheritance, the very land that God commanded Israel to drive out all these

pagan Canaanite tribes. When Israel realized that, uh-oh, we've just made a peace treaty with a

particular tribe of people that God has told us to drive out, to drive out, they couldn't go back

on their word. Joshua and Israel and the leaders there

realized that even though they were supposed to initially in obedience, full obedience to God's

commandments, to drive the Gibbeanites, along with all these other tribes out of Canaan,

they had given their word, they had made a treaty, a covenant, and to break their word would

actually be a greater sin. And then hundreds of years later, we see the power of a covenant.

We see how binding our word actually is, how serious an endeavor it is to make a vow before

the Lord.

We see hundreds of years later, generations past King Saul,

the first king in Israel,

King Saul and his zeal for the house of the Lord and for the people of Israel,

his zeal overstepping his bounds of wisdom and maturity, he starts to put to death the Ghibeonites.

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