This chapter talks about why weaker people form alliances for their own protection. Deceit was used in approaching the stronger nation meaning these people wanted to remain separate, verse 14 not becoming the same religion, yet they wanted a treaty of alliance to coexist. Verse 23 calls them cursed because they have the wrong religion but they are accepted to be hewers of wood which I think symbolically means to be soldiers that will support Israel and drawers of water symbolically meaning bringing people to support Israel through negotiations. This chapter is about forming treaties and alliances in war.
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