Joshua 9:2
f There was not a word of all that Moses charged Joshua, which Joshua read not in the ears of all the assembly of the children of Israel, the men, and the women, and the children, and the strangers that joined themselves to Israel.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
In Context
3And the inhabitants of Gibeon heard of all that the Lord did to Jericho and Ai.
Cross References
Joshua 10:5And the five kings of the Jebusites went up, the king of Jerusalem, and the king of Hebron, and the king of Jarmuth, and the king of Lachish, and the king of Adullam, they and all their people; and encamped around Gibeon, and besieged it.
Joshua 11:5And all the kings assembled in person, and came to the same place, and encamped at the waters of Merom to war with Israel.
2 Chronicles 20:1And after this came the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Meunites, against Jehoshaphat to battle.
Psalms 83:2How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! 1
Proverbs 11:21He that unjustly strikes hands shall not be unpunished: 1 But he that sows righteousness shall receive a faithful reward. 1
Isaiah 8:12Let them not say, It is hard, for whatsoever this people says, is hard: but fear not ye their fear, neither be dismayed.
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 →