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 will say to the men, I knew that Jehovah gave to you the land, and that your terror fell upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melted from your face.

The peoples heard, and they will be angry: pain took those inhabiting Philistia.

A man shall not stand up against your face: your terror and your fear, Jehovah your God shall give upon the face of all the earth which ye shall tread upon it, as he spake to you.

And all the peoples of the earth saw that the name of Jehovah was called upon thee; and they were afraid of thee.

For behold, the kings met together, they passed by together.

Also I will laugh at your ruin: I will deride in the coming of your terror;

The fear of the unjust one it shall come to him: and the desire of the just shall be given.

But a certain terrible expectation of judgment and jealousy of fire, being about to devour the adversaries.

And the kings of the earth, and the great, and the rich, and the captains of thousands, and the powerful, and every servant, and every one free, hid themselves in caves and in rocks of the mountains;

The royal cities

And David will say to Achish, If now I found grace in thine eyes, will they give me a place in one city of the field, and I will dwell there: and why shall thy servant dwell in the city of the kingdom with thee?

And Joab will fight against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, and he will take the city of the kingdom.