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 the men, "I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

The peoples have heard; they tremble; pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.

No one shall be able to stand against you. The LORD your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread, as he promised you.

And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they shall be afraid of you.

For behold, the kings assembled; they came on together.

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you,

What the wicked dreads will come upon him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.

Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,

The royal cities

Then David said to Achish, "If I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be given me in one of the country towns, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?"

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