Joshua 9:3

But the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Ioshua had done vnto Iericho, and to Ai.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,

In Context

2They gathered themselues together, to fight against Ioshua, and against Israel with one accord.

4And therefore they wrought craftily: for they went, and fayned themselues ambassadours, and tooke olde sackes vpon their asses, and olde bottels for wine, both rent and bound vp,

Read all of Joshua 9

Cross References

Joshua 6:1Now Iericho was shut vp, and closed, because of the children of Israel: none might go out nor enter in.

Joshua 8:1After, the Lord saide vnto Ioshua, Feare not, neither bee thou faint hearted: take all the men of warre with thee and arise, go vp to Ai: beholde, I haue giuen into thine hand the King of Ai, and his people, and his citie, and his land.

Joshua 8:26For Ioshua drewe not his hande backe againe which he had stretched out with the speare, vntill hee had vtterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

Joshua 10:1Now when Adoni-zedek King of Ierusalem had heard how Ioshua had taken Ai and had destroyed it, (for as he had done to Iericho and to the King thereof, so he had done to Ai and to the King thereof) and howe the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them,

Joshua 10:28And that same day Ioshua tooke Makkedah and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the King thereof destroyed he with them, and all the soules that were therein, he let none remaine: for hee did to the King of Makkedah as he had done vnto the King of Iericho.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Joshua 9:3