Joshua 10:1

When King Adoni-zedek of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and sacked it, treating Ai and its king as he had treated Jericho and its king, and that the citizens of Gibeon had made terms with Israel,

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Now it came to pass, when Adoni-zedek 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;

In Context

2he and his men were in terror. For Gibeon was a large town, like a royal city, larger than Ai, and all its men were stout fighters.

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Cross References

Joshua 6:21They massacred all in the city, men and women, old and young alike, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, giving no quarter.

Joshua 8:22and the men in ambush rushed from the town to join them, so that the men of Ai were caught between Israelites, some on one side and some on the other. They were slaughtered until not a man escaped or remained alive.

Joshua 9:15Joshua made peace with them and made a treaty with them to spare their lives, and the leaders of the community swore an oath to them.

Joshua 11:19Not a single town would make peace with the Israelites, except the Hivites who inhabited Gibeon. All the rest had to be captured by fighting.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 10:1

We have in this chapter an account of the conquest of the kings and kingdoms of the southern part of the land of Canaan, as, in the next chapter, of the reduction of the northern parts, which together completed the glorious successes of the wars of Canaan. In this chapter we have an account, I. Of the routing of their forces in the field, in which observe, 1. Their confederacy against the Gibeonites, ver. 1-5 . 2. The Gibeonites' request to Joshua to assist them, ver. 6 . 3. Joshua's speeds march under divine… Read the whole commentary →

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