Their neighbours, and they that dwelt among them. — Literally, and that they (the Gibeonites) were dwellers in the midst of him (Israel). (So Joshua 9:7.)
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Joshua 9:16
16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.