Joshua 9:3

And when the inhabitants of Gib'on heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and unto 'Ai,

Leeser Tanakh

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 themselves all together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.

4They also did work wilily, and went and feigned to be messengers, and took old sacks for their asses, and wine-bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;

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Cross References

Joshua 6:1Now Jericho was shut up, and barred up, because of the children of Israel: no one went out, and no one came in.

Joshua 8:1And the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou discouraged: 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 drew not back his hand, wherewith he had stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of 'Ai.

Joshua 10:1Now it came to pass, when Adoni-zedek, the king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured 'Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; [that] as he had done to Jericho and its king, so had he done to 'Ai and its king; and that the inhabitants of Gib'on had made peace with Israel, and were in the midst of them:

Joshua 10:28And Joshua captured Makkedah on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and its king he devoted, them, and all the souls that were therein; he left none that escaped; and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done unto the king of Jericho.

Joshua 18:25Gib'on, 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 →

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