Previously on the chosen people.

The castle is a bus, you see.

The Amorite and Canaanite kings to the west are scared.

They're all beside themselves worrying about those Hebrews outside the city.

But not concerned enough to send aid to augment our defenses, I assume.

No, not so concerned as that.

They're worried they'll come for them next when they're finished with us.

First, Sihon and Oji, and now us.

And you heard about what their god did down the plains with the river?

Why should we risk our necks for Gibbon?

Does a treaty of peace between our countries mean we are their bannermen?

Obligated to ride out at their beck and call?

I think it would be unwise to treat our oaths so casually and ban their interpretations to our whims.

But I also think this siege under Kohl's kingdom may be presenting us the strategic break we need.

Think of it. Five Amarite kings whose cities are key strongholds. In the south, all in one place, lured out into the open, no longer hiding behind their high walls and defenses and their haste to destroy Gibbon,

we could continue to conquer Canaan one stronghold at a time.

Our conquest would take years.

But if we were to crush multiple enemies at once and further drive our wedge into the heart of the southern kingdom,

you ask what I think.

Why?

I think this is too good an opportunity to dismiss.

Turn around.

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