Joshua 10:6
The Gibeonites sent a message to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, saying, “Please don't abandon us, your servants! Come quickly and save us! We need your help for all the Amorite kings of the hill country have joined in attacking us.”
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In Context
7So Joshua, all his fighting men and best fighters, set off from Gilgal.
Cross References
Joshua 5:10The Israelites camped at Gilgal and celebrated Passover there on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month.
Joshua 9:8“We are your servants,” they replied. “But who are you? Where do you come from?” Joshua asked.
Joshua 9:24They answered Joshua, “We your servants were told very clearly that the Lord your God had ordered Moses to give you all this land, and that all its inhabitants were to be wiped out before you. So we really feared for our lives because of you. That's why we did what we did.
2 Kings 4:24She put the saddle on the donkey and told her servant, “Let's go quickly! Don't slow down for me unless I tell you to!”
Isaiah 33:22For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king. He is the one who will save us.
Matthew Henry on Joshua 10:2-7
The Combination Against Gibeon. ( b. c. 1450.) 1 Now it came to pass, when Adoni-zedec king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them; 2 That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty. 3 Wherefore Adoni-zedec king… Read the whole commentary →