The Watchtower. Study Edition, July 2006.

This article will be studied during the week of September 7th through 13th.

Learn from the Gibyanites.

Theme text. The inhabitants of Gibbean had made peace with Israel and remained among them.

Joshua 10.1.

Song 88.

Make me know your ways.

Focus.

Identified lessons we can learn from the Gibbeanites and from the way Jehovah dealt with them.

Paragraphs 1 and 2. Question.

Why should we be interested in what the Bible says about the Ghibionites?

The year is 1473 BCE.

The nation of Israel has just begun its conquest of the promised land.

The Israelites have won extraordinary victories over the cities of Jericho and Aai.

But later, something unexpected happens.

A group of travelers comes to them, claiming to be from a distant land

and seeking to establish a peace agreement with God's people.

Those travelers are the Gibianites. This is the first time that the Gibianites are mentioned

in the Bible record, but it is not the last. A number of Bible accounts reveal that the

Gibianites were closely associated with the Israelites throughout the following centuries.

These accounts contain valuable lessons for us, and they reveal much about Jehovah God.

Act with faith and humility.

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