Joshua 9:3
When the citizens of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
In Context
2gathered as one to attack Joshua and Israel.
Cross References
Joshua 6:1Now Jericho had shut its gates against the Israelites. No one left the town, and no one entered it.
Joshua 8:1Then said the Lord to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid or dismayed. Take all the warriors with you and march up to Ai. I put into your hands the king of Ai with his people and his town and his country.
Joshua 8:26Joshua never withdrew the hand that held his javelin until he had massacred all who lived in Ai.
Joshua 10:1When 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,
Joshua 10:28The same day Joshua stormed and sacked Makkedah, killing its king and utterly destroying it and all it contained, until not a single person was left. He treated the king of Makkedah as he had treated the king of Jericho,
Joshua 18:25Also Gibeon, Ramah, 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 →