Joshua 10:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² he became greatly frightened, because Gibeon was a large city, like one of the royal cities, and was larger than Ai, and all its men were warriors.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² He feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

American Standard Version (1901)

² 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.

Common English Bible

² Adoni-zedek and his people were very afraid, because Gibeon was a large city, like one of the royal cities. It was larger than Ai. All its men were soldiers.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² he was very afraid. For Gibeon was a great city, and was one of the royal cities, and was greater than the town of Ai, and all its warriors were very strong.

Joshua 10:2 Cross References

Deuteronomy 11:25

No one will be able to stand against you; the Lord your God will put the fear and dread of you on all the land on which you set foot, as he promised you.

Joshua 2:24

They said to Joshua, “Truly the Lord has given all the land into our hands; moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt in fear before us.”

Hebrews 10:31

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Hebrews 10:27

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

Proverbs 10:24

What the wicked dread will come upon them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

2 Samuel 12:26

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

1 Samuel 27:5

Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your sight, let a place be given me in one of the country towns so that I may live there, for why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”

Deuteronomy 28:10

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.

Joshua 9:3

But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

Deuteronomy 2:25

This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples everywhere under heaven; when they hear report of you, they will tremble and be in anguish because of you.’

Joshua 9:24

They answered Joshua, “Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the Lord your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you, so we were in great fear for our lives because of you and did this thing.