Jordan - Joshua 9

These people, the Gibeonites, save themselves by tricking the Israelites into thinking that they are travelers.  That is just genius in my opinion.  What were their options really?  Sit back and await death or cheat death and become the servants of the Israelites.  Talk about being at the wrong place at the wrong time.  The book doesn't really say that the people occupying the holy land were bad people.  Its not a Sodom and Gomorrah story, it is just God's people violently claiming what God has promised them.