But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
"They also did work wilily ..."  (Joshua 9:4).  Note the word "also." The Israelites had worked "wilily" in their stratagem that aided their capture of Ai by pretending to flee from them; and, then, when the soldiers of Ai pursued them, the Israelites turned and destroyed them.  Cook believed that the word "also," here apparently "connects the stratagem of the Gibeonites with that of the Israelites before Ai."[11]