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 to the men, "I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen on 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.

No man shall be able to stand before you: Yahweh your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread on, as he has spoken to you.

All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of Yahweh; and they shall be afraid of you.

For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together.

I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

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

The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.

The royal cities

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

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