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, It is clear to me that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has come on us;

Hearing of you the peoples were shaking in fear: the people of Philistia were gripped with pain.

All people will give way before you: for the Lord your God will put the fear of you on all the land through which you go, as he has said.

And all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of the Lord is on you, and they will go in fear of you.

So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;

The thing feared by the evil-doer will come to him, but the upright man will get his desire.

But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God.

And the kings of the earth, and the rulers, and the chief captains, and the men of wealth, and the strong, and every servant and free man, took cover in the holes and the rocks of the mountains;

The royal cities

Then David said to Achish, If now I have grace in your eyes, let me have a place in one of the smaller towns of your land, to be my living-place; for it is not right for your servant to be living with you in the king's town.

Now Joab was fighting against Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon, and he took the water-town.