inhabitants. The Gibeonires were Hivites (Jos_9:7), condemned to extermination as mixed with the descendants of the Nephilim (App-26). Exo_23:32; Exo_34:12-15. Num_33:51-56. Deu_7:1, Deu_7:2; Deu_20:16. They were aware of this. Hence their mission; by which they exposed themselves to the enmity of the other nations (Jos_10:1-4).
Gibeon = High place. About six and a half miles from Beth-el, eight miles north-north-west of Jerusalem.
what. Some codices, with Septuagint and Vulgate, read "all that".