It happened at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.
This action partially fulfilled Noah’s prophecy concerning the Canaanites in Genesis 9:25. The Gibeonites received tasks in the service of the tabernacle where, hopefully, they would have had exposure to the best spiritual influences. The Gibeonites never led the Israelites into idolatry, as far as the text records, but their presence in the tabernacle displeased the Lord (Ezekiel 44:7).