So Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai the Archite [is] better than the advice of Ahithophel." For the LORD had purposed to defeat the good advice of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring disaster on Absalom.

When Jacob saw them, he said, "This [is] God's camp." And he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

that they feared greatly, because Gibeon [was] a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it [was] greater than Ai, and all its men [were] mighty.

"Come up to me and help me, that we may attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel."

Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel: "Sun, stand still over Gibeon; And Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon."

Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,