Joshua 10:2

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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.

They feared

The royal cities

1 Samuel 27:5

2 Samuel 12:26

Bible References

They feared

and said to them, “I know that the Lord has given you this land and that the terror of you has fallen on us, and everyone who lives in the land is panicking because of you.

When the peoples hear, they will shudder;
anguish will seize the inhabitants of Philistia.

No one will be able to stand against you; the Lord your God will put fear and dread of you in all the land where you set foot, as He has promised you.

Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by Yahweh’s name, and they will stand in awe of you.

Look! The kings assembled;
they advanced together.

I, in turn, will laugh at your calamity.
I will mock when terror strikes you,

What the wicked dreads will come to him,
but what the righteous desire will be given to them.

but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire about to consume the adversaries.

Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the military commanders, the rich, the powerful, and every slave and free person hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

The royal cities

Now David said to Achish, “If I have found favor with you, let me be given a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. Why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”

Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal fortress.