This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.
"So there really are exact parallels between Rahab the individual and the Gibeonites the corporate unit. Rahab (plus her family) was the only individual saved out of Jericho. The Gibeonites were the only people saved out of the land. Rahab believed, left Jericho and came among the people of God. The Gibeonites were the only people in the land who turned to God, and they flowed on through all the years of Jewish history." [Note: Schaeffer, p. 151. See pp. 148-151 for his defense of this view. See also Hess, p. 179.] 