Joshua 10:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁶ And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, saying, “Do not relax your hand from your servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country are gathered against us.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, saying, Do not relax your hand from your servants; come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the hill country are gathered against us.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ 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 hill-country are gathered together against us.

Common English Bible

⁶ The people of Gibeon sent word to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal: “Don’t desert your servants! Come to us quickly. Rescue us! Help us! All the Amorite kings from the highlands have assembled together against us.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ But the inhabitants of the city of Gibeon, when it was besieged, sent to Joshua, who was then staying in the camp at Gilgal. And they said to him: "May you not draw back your hands from helping your servants. Come quickly, and free us, and bring troops. For all the kings of the Amorites, who live in the mountains, have gathered together against us."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ But the inhabitants of the city of Gabaon which was besieged sent to Josue, who then abode in the camp at Galgal, and said to him: Withdraw not thy hands from helping thy servants: come up quickly and save us, and bring us succour. For all the kings of the Amorrhites, who dwell in the mountains, are gathered together against us.

Joshua 10:6 Cross References

2 Kings 4:24

Then she saddled the ass, and she said to her servant, “Urge the beast on; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you.”

Psalm 125:2

As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people, from this time forth and for evermore.

Isaiah 33:22

For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our ruler, the Lord is our king; he will save us.

Numbers 13:29

The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.”

Luke 1:39

In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a city of Judah,

Deuteronomy 1:15

So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes.

Joshua 10:5

Then the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered their forces, and went up with all their armies and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it.

Joshua 10:7

So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.

Joshua 21:11

They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasture lands round about it.

Joshua 5:10

While the people of Israel were encamped in Gilgal they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.

Joshua 9:15

And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the leaders of the congregation swore to them.

Joshua 9:6

And they went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country; so now make a covenant with us.”

Joshua 9:8

They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.” And Joshua said to them, “Who are you? And where do you come from?”