Joshua 10:6

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Summary

And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.

To the camp

Joshua 5:10

Joshua 9:6

Slack

2 Kings 4:24

From thy

Joshua 9:15

Isaiah 33:22

Mountains

General references

Joshua 10:5

Bible References

To the camp

While the Israelites camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month.

They went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land. Please make a treaty with us.”

Slack

Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Hurry, don’t slow the pace for me unless I tell you.”

From thy

So Joshua established peace with them and made a treaty to let them live, and the leaders of the community swore an oath to them.

For the Lord is our Judge,
the Lord is our lawgiver,
the Lord is our King.
He will save us.

Mountains

They gave them Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) with its surrounding pasturelands in the hill country of Judah. Arba was the father of Anak.

“So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and set them over you as leaders: officials for thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, and officers for your tribes.

Jerusalem—the mountains surround her.
And the Lord surrounds His people,
both now and forever.

In those days Mary set out and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judah

General references

So the five Amorite kings—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon—joined forces, advanced with all their armies, besieged Gibeon, and fought against it.