Joshua 9:3
New International Version
However, when the people of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

New Living Translation
But when the people of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

English Standard Version
But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

Berean Standard Bible
But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

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

New King James Version
But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

New American Standard Bible
The inhabitants of Gibeon also heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

NASB 1995
When the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

NASB 1977
When the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

Legacy Standard Bible
Now the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai.

Amplified Bible
But when the people of Gibeon [the Hivites] heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

Christian Standard Bible
When the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

American Standard Version
But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the inhabitants of Gebuun heard the thing that Yeshua did to Ai and to Yerikho

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the inhabitants of Gabaon heard of all that the Lord did to Jericho and Gai.

Contemporary English Version
The people of Gibeon had also heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But they that dwelt in Gabaon, hearing all that Josue had done to Jericho and Hai:

English Revised Version
But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When the people living in Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

Good News Translation
But the people of Gibeon, who were Hivites, heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

International Standard Version
But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

JPS Tanakh 1917
But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,

Literal Standard Version
And the inhabitants of Gibeon have heard that which Joshua has done to Jericho and to Ai,

Majority Standard Bible
But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

New American Bible
On hearing what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai, the inhabitants of Gibeon

NET Bible
When the residents of Gibeon heard what Joshua did to Jericho and Ai,

New Revised Standard Version
But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

New Heart English Bible
But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

Webster's Bible Translation
And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

World English Bible
But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

Young's Literal Translation
And the inhabitants of Gibeon have heard that which Joshua hath done to Jericho and to Ai,

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Context
The Deceit of the Gibeonites
2they came together to wage war against Joshua and Israel. 3But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai, 4acted deceptively and set out as envoys, carrying on their donkeys worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.…

Cross References
Joshua 6:27
So the LORD was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the land.

Joshua 9:4
acted deceptively and set out as envoys, carrying on their donkeys worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.

Joshua 9:17
So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities--Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.

Joshua 9:22
Then Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said, "Why did you deceive us by telling us you live far away from us, when in fact you live among us?

Joshua 10:2
So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

Joshua 11:19
No city made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites living in Gibeon; all others were taken in battle.

Joshua 21:17
And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave them Gibeon, Geba,


Treasury of Scripture

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

Gibeon

Joshua 9:17
And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.

Joshua 10:2
That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.

2 Samuel 21:1,2
Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites…

Jericho

Joshua 6:1-27
Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in…

Joshua 8:1-35
And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land: …

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Joshua 9
1. The kings combine against Israel
3. The Gibeonites by craft obtain a league
22. They are condemned to perpetual bondage














THE GIBEONITES MAKE PEACE WITH JOSHUA (Joshua 9:3-27).

(3) The inhabitants of Gibeon.--Hivites, as appears by Joshua 9:7. Gibeon was one member of a tetrapolis, or community of four cities, as is seen in Joshua 9:17. Their deception of Joshua and the Israelites on this occasion is a curious compensation for what was done by Simeon and Levi to the Hivites long before, when Jacob first came to Shechem from Padan-Aram (see Genesis 34). On that occasion, the inhabitants of a single city of the Hivites were put to the sword by Israel, by means of a stratagem; on this occasion, a stratagem saved four Hivite cities from destruction by Israel's sword.

Verse 3. - The inhabitants of Gibeon. That is, of a confederation of cities (see ver. 17), of which Gibeon was the head. Gibeon was a city of some importance (Joshua 10:2). Though it was for size and importance "as one of the royal cities," we hear nothing of a king there. Hengstenberg, in his history, describes it (p. 227) as "eine freie Stadt," with daughter cities dependent on it. In fact, the Phoenician cities (see Introduction) seem to have had as great a variety of constitution as those of ancient Greece. Its inhabitants were Hivites (ver. 7, and Joshua 11:19). Its name (compare Gibeah and גִבְעָה a hill) signifies hill city, like the termination dunum in Latin, as Lugdunum, or Lyons; dune in Anglo-Saxon, as Ethandune. Compare also Dunkirk. Robinson, in his 'Biblical Researches,' 2:135-9, identifies it with el-Jib, a village on an eminence in the midst of a fertile plain, where the remains of large buildings may still be seen. (So Vandevelde and Condor.) "Onely the Hivites are wiser than their fellowes, and will rather yeeld and live. Their intelligence was not diverse from the rest; all had equally heard of the miraculous conduct and successe of Israel; but their resolution was diverse. As Rahab saved her family in the midst of Jericho, so these foure cities preserved themselves in the midst of Canaan; and both of them by beleeving what God would do. The efficacie of God's marvellous works is not in the acts themselves, but in our apprehension" (Bp. Hall).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But the people
וְיֹשְׁבֵ֨י (wə·yō·šə·ḇê)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

of Gibeon,
גִבְע֜וֹן (ḡiḇ·‘ō·wn)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 1391: Gibeon -- a Levitical city in Benjamin

having heard
שָׁמְע֗וּ (šā·mə·‘ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

what
אֲשֶׁ֨ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

Joshua
יְהוֹשֻׁ֛עַ (yə·hō·wō·šu·a‘)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3091: Joshua -- 'the LORD is salvation', Moses' successor, also the name of a number of Israelites

had done
עָשָׂ֧ה (‘ā·śāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

to Jericho
לִֽירִיח֖וֹ (lî·rî·ḥōw)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 3405: Jericho -- a city in the Jordan Valley captured by Joshua

and Ai,
וְלָעָֽי׃ (wə·lā·‘āy)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 5857: Ai -- a Canaanite city


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