Joshua 9:3
Good News Translation
But the people of Gibeon, who were Hivites, heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

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

Contemporary English Version
The people of Gibeon had also 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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But they that dwelt in Gabaon, hearing all that Joshua had done to Jericho and Hai:

Gibeon

Joshua 9:17 And the children of Israel removed the camp, and came into their cities on the third day, the names of which are, Gabaon, and Caphira, and Beroth, and Cariathiarim.

Joshua 10:2 He was exceedingly afraid. For Gabaon was a great city, and one of the royal cities, and greater than the town of Hai, and all its fighting men were most valiant.

2 Samuel 21:1,2 And there was a famine in the days of David for three years successively: and David consulted the oracle of the Lord. And the Lord said: It is for Saul, and his bloody house, because he slow the Gabaonites. . . .

Jericho

Joshua 6:1-27 Now Jericho was close shut up and fenced, for fear of the children of Israel, and no man durst go out or come in. . . .

Joshua 8:1-35 And the Lord said to Joshua: Fear not, nor be thou dismayed: take with thee all the multitude of fighting men, arise, and go up to the town of Hai: Behold I have delivered into thy hand the king thereof, and the people, and the city, and the land. . . .

Context
The Deceit of the Gibeonites
2Gathered themselves together, to fight against Joshua and Israel with one mind, and one resolution. 3But they that dwelt in Gabaon, hearing all that Joshua had done to Jericho and Hai:4Cunningly devising took for themselves provisions, laying old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles rent and sewed up again,…
Cross References
Joshua 6:27
And the Lord was with Joshua, and his name was noised throughout all the land

Joshua 9:4
Cunningly devising took for themselves provisions, laying old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles rent and sewed up again,

Joshua 9:17
And the children of Israel removed the camp, and came into their cities on the third day, the names of which are, Gabaon, and Caphira, and Beroth, and Cariathiarim.

Joshua 9:22
Josue called the Gabaonites and said to them: Why would you impose upon us, saying: We dwell far off from you, whereas you are in the midst of us?

Joshua 10:2
He was exceedingly afraid. For Gabaon was a great city, and one of the royal cities, and greater than the town of Hai, and all its fighting men were most valiant.

Joshua 11:19
There was not a city that delivered itself to the children of Israel, except the Hevite, who dwelt in Gabaon: for he took all by fight.

Joshua 21:17
And out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, Gabaon, and Gabae,

2 Samuel 21:2
Then the king, calling for the Gabaonites, said to them: (Now the Gabaonites were not of the children of Israel, but the remains of the Amorrhites: and the children of Israel had sworn to them, and Saul sought to slay them out of zeal, as it were for the children of Israel and Juda:)

Jeremiah 28:1
And it came to pass in that year, in the beginning of the reign of Sedecias king of Juda, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananias the son of Azur, a prophet of Gabaon spoke to me, in the house of the Lord before the priests, and all the people, saying:

Joshua 9:2
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