Canaanites, both individuals such as Rahab and whole groups such as the Gibeonites, who voluntarily accepted God???s high moral standards were spared. (Joshua 6:25; 9:3-15) Rahab became a link in the royal genealogy leading to the Messiah, and descendants of the Gibeonites were privileged to minister at Jehovah???s temple.???Joshua 9:27; Ezra 8:20; Matthew 1:1, 5-16.