They said to him, From a very far country your servants are come because of the name of Yahweh your God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
Textual criticism reaches some kind of a climax of blindness in the complaint of Longacre that there must be two "different versions" of this story woven together here, since "two different reasons" are given for Israel's making a covenant with the Gibeonites![20]  Lindsay identified these as: (1) Israel was deceived; and (2) they did not ask counsel of Jehovah!  Anyone should be able to discern that these are not two different reasons but one.  Israel was deceived, and the reason they were deceived is that they did not ask counsel of Jehovah.