Joshua 9:3
And the inhabitants of Gibeon have heard that which Joshua has done to Jericho and to Ai,
Literal Standard Version
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 gather themselves together to fight with Joshua, and with Israel—[with] one mouth.
Cross References
Joshua 6:1And Jericho shuts itself up, and is shut up, because of the presence of the sons of Israel—none going out, and none coming in.
Joshua 8:1And YHWH says to Joshua, “Do not fear, nor be frightened, take with you all the people of war, and rise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land,
Joshua 8:26And Joshua has not brought back his hand which he stretched out with the javelin until he has devoted all the inhabitants of Ai;
Joshua 10:1And it comes to pass, when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem hears that Joshua has captured Ai, and devotes it (as he had done to Jericho and to her king so he has done to Ai and to her king), and that the inhabitants of Gibeon have made peace with Israel, and are in their midst—
Joshua 10:28And Joshua has captured Makkedah on that day, and he strikes it by the mouth of the sword, and he has devoted its king, them and every person who [is] in it—he has not left a remnant; and he does to the king of Makkedah as he did 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 →