Joshua 10:6 - The Scriptures 2009

⁶ And the men of Giḇ‛on sent to Yehoshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Do not withdraw your hand from your servants. Come up to us quickly, and save us and help us, for all the sovereigns of the Amorites who dwell in the mountains have assembled 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

And she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Drive and go, do not slow down, except I speak to you.”

Psalm 125:2

As the mountains surround Yerushalayim, So יהוה surrounds His people, Now and forever.

Isaiah 33:22

for יהוה is our Judge, יהוה is our Inscriber, יהוה is our Sovereign, He saves us –

Numbers 13:29

“The Amalĕqites dwell in the land of the South, while the Ḥittites and the Yeḇusites and the Amorites dwell in the mountains. And the Kena‛anites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Yardĕn.”

Luke 1:39

And Miryam arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, to a city of Yehuḏah,

Deuteronomy 1:15

“And I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and known, and made them heads over you, leaders of thousands, and leaders of hundreds, and leaders of fifties, and leaders of tens, and officers for your tribes.

Joshua 10:5

So the five sovereigns of the Amorites – the sovereign of Yerushalayim, the sovereign of Ḥeḇron, the sovereign of Yarmuth, the sovereign of Laḵish, the sovereign of Eḡlon – gathered together and went up, they and all their armies, and camped before Giḇ‛on and fought against it.

Joshua 10:7

And Yehoshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the soldiers with him, and all the mighty brave men.

Joshua 21:11

And they gave them Qiryath Arba, that is Ḥeḇron – Arba was the father of Anaq – in the mountains of Yehuḏah, with the open land surrounding it.

Joshua 5:10

And the children of Yisra’ĕl camped in Gilgal, and performed the Pĕsaḥ on the fourteenth day of the new moon at evening on the desert plains of Yeriḥo.

Joshua 9:15

And Yehoshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them to let them live, and the rulers of the congregation swore to them.

Joshua 9:6

And they went to Yehoshua, to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Yisra’ĕl, “We have come from a far land, and now, make a covenant with us.”

Joshua 9:8

And they said to Yehoshua, “We are your servants.” And Yehoshua said to them, “Who are you, and where do you come from?”