Joshua 10:2

he [and his people] feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

Exodus 15:14-16


“The peoples have heard [about You], they tremble;
Anguish and fear has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia.

Deuteronomy 11:25

No man will be able to stand before you; the Lord your God will lay the fear and the dread of you on all the land on which you set foot, just as He has spoken to you.

Deuteronomy 28:10

So all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will be afraid of you.

Joshua 2:9-13

and she said to the men, “I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the terror and dread of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land have melted [in despair] because of you.

Joshua 2:24

They said to Joshua, “Certainly the Lord has given all the land into our hands; for all the inhabitants of the land have melted [in despair] because of us.”

1 Samuel 27:5

Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your sight, let me be given a place [of my own] in one of the cities in the country, so that I may live there; for why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”

2 Samuel 12:26

Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal city.

Psalm 48:4-6


For, lo, the kings assembled themselves,
They [came and] passed by together.

Proverbs 1:26-27


I also will laugh at your disaster;
I will mock when your dread and panic come,

Proverbs 10:24


What the wicked fears will come upon him,
But the desire of the righteous [for the blessings of God] will be granted.

Hebrews 10:27

but a kind of awful and terrifying expectation of [divine] judgment and the fury of a fire and burning wrath which will consume the adversaries [those who put themselves in opposition to God].

Hebrews 10:31

It is a fearful and terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God [incurring His judgment and wrath].

Revelation 6:15-17

Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the military commanders and the wealthy and the strong and everyone, [whether] slave or free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains;

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Summary

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.

The royal cities

Bible References

They feared

Joshua 2:9
and she said to the men, “I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the terror and dread of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land have melted [in despair] because of you.
Exodus 15:14

“The peoples have heard [about You], they tremble;
Anguish and fear has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia.
Deuteronomy 11:25
No man will be able to stand before you; the Lord your God will lay the fear and the dread of you on all the land on which you set foot, just as He has spoken to you.
Deuteronomy 28:10
So all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will be afraid of you.
Psalm 48:4

For, lo, the kings assembled themselves,
They [came and] passed by together.
Proverbs 1:26

I also will laugh at your disaster;
I will mock when your dread and panic come,
Proverbs 10:24

What the wicked fears will come upon him,
But the desire of the righteous [for the blessings of God] will be granted.
Hebrews 10:27
but a kind of awful and terrifying expectation of [divine] judgment and the fury of a fire and burning wrath which will consume the adversaries [those who put themselves in opposition to God].
Revelation 6:15
Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the military commanders and the wealthy and the strong and everyone, [whether] slave or free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains;

The royal cities

1 Samuel 27:5
Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your sight, let me be given a place [of my own] in one of the cities in the country, so that I may live there; for why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”
2 Samuel 12:26
Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal city.