Crossword-Solution: GIBEONITE 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Brisk goes the work beneath each busy hand, And _Giles_ must trudge, whoever gives command; A _Gibeonite_, that serves them all by turns: He drains the pump, from him the faggot burns; From him the noisy hogs demand their food; While at his heels run many a chirping brood, Or down his path in expectation stand, With equal claims upon his strewing hand.

Saul endeavoured to get rid of the line of Canaanite cities which isolated them from Ephraim, but he failed in the effort, we know not from what cause, and his attempt produced no other result than to arouse against him the hatred of the Gibeonite inhabitants.* He did his best to watch over the security of his new subjects, and protected them against the Amalekites, who were constantly harassing them.

When it is remembered how Saul had attempted to extirpate the Gibeonites, and how bitter a blood feud the latter entertained against his house in consequence, it becomes very significant that the murderers of his son were men of this Gibeonite town.

How can we, who are your Neighbours, have any regard for you, or expect any Equity from you, should your Power increase, when we see how basely and unjustly you have us'd both _your own Mother--and your own Children_?" With such rollicking fun, did Franklin, beguile his Gibeonite tasks.

And beware! Caiaphas comes, and the Sanhedrin meet! "Go! or I hale Thee to judgment of them; Go! or Thy God shall avail Thee in vain; Thou art of Japheth, and I am of Shem Lazarus, outcast and cursed with Cain! "Needs must there be a division of men; Hewer of wood is the Gibeonite, Cutter of stone in the quarries, and then Slave to the Covenant-Israelite." "Nay, all are equal and loved of the Lord," Whispered the Stranger.