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Joshua 10:4

Joshua 10:4
Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon,.... For which he thought himself not a match, not only because it was a great city, and full of mighty men, and had other cities subject to it,…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Joshua 10:1-6

Joshua and the hosts of Israel had now been a good while in the land of Canaan, and no great matters were effected; they were made masters of Jericho by a miracle, of Ai by stratagem, and of Gibeon by…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

for it hath made peace The enterprise was directed primarily not against Joshua, but against Gibeon which had made peace with him. Comp. Jos 9:15.

When in describing the assault on Lachish the writer…