Joshua 9:3
And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
In Context
2that they assembled together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
Cross References
Joshua 6:1Now Jericho was shut up and was barred, because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
Joshua 8:1And Jehovah said to Joshua, Fear not, neither be dismayed. Take with thee all the people of war, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land.
Joshua 8:26And Joshua did not draw back his hand, which he had stretched out with the javelin, until they had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
Joshua 10:1And it came to pass when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Ai and had utterly destroyed it, that he had done to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them,
Joshua 10:28And Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, him and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed; he let none remain; and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
Joshua 18:25Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
Matthew Henry on Joshua 9:2-3
The Application of the Gibeonites. ( b. c. 1450.) 1 And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof; 2 That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord. Hitherto the Canaanites had acted defensively; the Israelites were the aggressors upon Jericho and… Read the whole commentary →