여호수아 9:8의 미드라쉬

(Deut. 29:9:) “Your tribal leaders, [your elders, and your law officers].” Although I have appointed for you heads, judges, elders, and law officers, you shall all be equal before me, since it is stated (ibid., cont.), “every person in Israel.” Another interpretation (of Deut. 29:9): All of you are responsible for each other. Even though there is [only] one righteous person among you, you all shall survive (literally, stand) through his merit; and not only you, but the whole world in toto, as stated (in Prov. 10:25), “but a righteous person is the foundation for the world.”³A more common translation would be: BUT A RIGHTEOUS PERSON IS AN EVERLASTING FOUNDATION. However, when one sins, the whole generation is stricken, and so you find in the case of Achan (in Josh. 22:20), “Was it not Achan ben Zerah who committed [embezzlement] in the proscription (i.e., the herem of Jericho)?” If with the measure of punishment which is small, the [whole] generation was seized, how much the more [will the generation prosper], with the measure of [divine] favor which is great! It is therefore stated (in Deut. 29:9), “every person in Israel”; and not only the great ones who are among us, but (according to vs. 10) “Your infants, your wives, and your alien.” It is therefore stated (in Deut. 29:9), “every person.” Now flesh and blood shows more mercy over males than over females, but the Holy One, blessed be He, is not like that. Rather (according to Ps. 145:9), “His mercy is upon all his works,” upon males and upon females, upon the righteous and upon the wicked, as stated (in Deut. 29:10, cont.), “from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water.” (Deut. 29:10, cont.), “From the one who chops your wood.” R. Isaac ben Tavlay said, “[This] teaches that, when the Gibeonites came to [Moses he did not accept them; but when they came to] Joshua, he did accept them.⁴According to Josh. 9:27, Joshua gave these menial tasks to the Gibeonites. Thus it is stated (in Josh. 9:4), ‘And they also acted with cunning.’ What is the meaning of ‘they also?’ [This] teaches that they had come to Moses, and he had not accepted them.”

(Deut. 29:9:) “Your tribal leaders, [your elders, and your law officers].” Although I have appointed for you heads, judges, elders, and law officers, you shall all be equal before me, since it is stated (ibid., cont.), “every person in Israel.” Another interpretation (of Deut. 29:9): All of you are responsible for each other. Even though there is [only] one righteous person among you, you all shall survive (literally, stand) through his merit; and not only you, but the whole world in toto, as stated (in Prov. 10:25), “but a righteous person is the foundation for the world.”³A more common translation would be: BUT A RIGHTEOUS PERSON IS AN EVERLASTING FOUNDATION. However, when one sins, the whole generation is stricken, and so you find in the case of Achan (in Josh. 22:20), “Was it not Achan ben Zerah who committed [embezzlement] in the proscription (i.e., the herem of Jericho)?” If with the measure of punishment which is small, the [whole] generation was seized, how much the more [will the generation prosper], with the measure of [divine] favor which is great! It is therefore stated (in Deut. 29:9), “every person in Israel”; and not only the great ones who are among us, but (according to vs. 10) “Your infants, your wives, and your alien.” It is therefore stated (in Deut. 29:9), “every person.” Now flesh and blood shows more mercy over males than over females, but the Holy One, blessed be He, is not like that. Rather (according to Ps. 145:9), “His mercy is upon all his works,” upon males and upon females, upon the righteous and upon the wicked, as stated (in Deut. 29:10, cont.), “from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water.” (Deut. 29:10, cont.), “From the one who chops your wood.” R. Isaac ben Tavlay said, “[This] teaches that, when the Gibeonites came to [Moses he did not accept them; but when they came to] Joshua, he did accept them.⁴According to Josh. 9:27, Joshua gave these menial tasks to the Gibeonites. Thus it is stated (in Josh. 9:4), ‘And they also acted with cunning.’ What is the meaning of ‘they also?’ [This] teaches that they had come to Moses, and he had not accepted them.”

and the number of the people of Ai that were slain, men and women, was twelve thousand. ‎And when all the kings of Canaan on this side of the Jordan, heard of the evil which the ‎Israelites had done unto Jericho and unto Ai, they assembled to fight against Israel. But the ‎inhabitants of Gibeon were greatly afraid to fight with the Israelites, and they acted cunningly, ‎and they came unto Joshua and unto all Israel, and they said unto them: We are coming from a ‎distant land, and we pray you to cut a covenant with us. And the children of Israel made a ‎covenant of peace with them, and the princes of the congregation swore unto them. And the ‎children of Israel learned soon that the Gibeonites lived quite near and in the midst of their ‎own land, but the children of Israel did not slay them, for they had sworn unto them by the ‎Lord, and they made the Gibeonites hewers of wood and drawers of water. And Joshua said ‎unto them: Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying: We are very far from you; when ye dwelt ‎in our midst? And they said: Because it hath been told unto thy servants, all that you have ‎done unto the kings of the Amorites, and we were greatly afraid of our lives, wherefore we ‎have done this thing. And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water, ‎and he divided them for slaves amongst the tribes of Judah. And Adonizedek, king of ‎Jerusalem, heard this thing, and he sent to Hoham, king of Hebron, and to Piram, king of ‎Jarmuth, and to Japhia, king of Lachish, and to Debir, king of Eglon, and all these five kings of ‎the Amorites assembled, and encamped before Gibeon to fight with the people of Gibeon. ‎And the inhabitants of Gibeon sent unto Joshua, saying: Hasten to help us, for all the kings of ‎the Amorites have come to fight against us. And Joshua came up with his host from Gilead, ‎and he smote the five kings in a terrible smiting, and they fled from before Israel.‎