Yoruba are too cosmopolitan to be reduced to the
Gibeonites referred to above.
The fictitious painting depicts David avenging the
Gibeonites.
Hivai, a
Gibeonite who once successfully foretold the future, now appears to have lost his prophetic skill.
God answers that it is due to "bloodguilt" on the house of Saul, who earlier attempted to wipe out the
Gibeonites from the land.
These Lumpenproletariat as "hewers of wood and drawers of water" is William Tyndale's Tudor translation of the Hebrew passages that refer to the Israelites' deliverance from Egypt and the
Gibeonites' enslavement.
Later her sons were delivered by King David to the
Gibeonites and were impaled by them "on the mountain before the Lord", without receiving a proper burial, so that their bodies were lying out in the field (2 Sam.
20:5), the execution of Saul's descendents as expiation for the blood of the
Gibeonites (II Sam.
Another case of Gentiles joining the covenant community involves the
Gibeonites, who succeeded in doing so only through trickery (Josh.
They should not forget, however, that the
Gibeonites, because of their deceit, were condemned to being hewers of wood and fetchers of water.
When David killed seven of Saul's descendants to appease the
Gibeonites, he spared Mephibosheth because of this oath: The king spared Mephibosheth son of Jonathan son of Saul, because of the oath before the Lord between the two, between David and Jonathan son of Saul (II Sam.