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 she said unto the men, I know that Jehovah hath given you the land, and that the fear of you is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

The peoples have heard, they tremble: Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.

There shall no man be able to stand before you: Jehovah your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath spoken unto you.

And all the peoples of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of Jehovah; and they shall be afraid of thee.

For, lo, the kings assembled themselves, They passed by together.

I also will laugh in the day of your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him; And the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries.

And the kings of the earth, and the princes, and the chief captains, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman and freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains;

The royal cities

And David said unto Achish, If now I have found favor in thine eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?

Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.