Joshua 9:3

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The people from the city of Gibeon heard about the way Joshua had defeated Jericho and Ai.

Cross References

2 Samuel 2:12

Abner son of Ner and the officers of Saul’s son Ish Bosheth left Mahanaim and went to Gibeon.

1 Chronicles 12:4

Ishmaiah from the town of Gibeon (Ishmaiah was a hero with the Three Heroes and he was also a leader of the Three Heroes); Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, and Jozabad from the Gederathite people;

2 Chronicles 1:3

Then Solomon and all the people gathered together with him went to the high place {\cf2\super [1]} at Gibeon. God’s Meeting Tent {\cf2\super [2]} was there. The Lord’s servant Moses made that tent when he and the people of Israel were in the desert.

Jeremiah 28:1

In the fifth month of the fourth year {\cf2\super [218]} that Zedekiah was king of Judah, Hananiah the prophet spoke to me. Hananiah was the son of a man named Azzur. Hananiah was from the town of Gibeon. Hananiah was in the Lord’s temple when he spoke to me. The priests and all the people were there also. This is what Hananiah said:

Joshua 10:1

At this time Adoni Zedek was the king of Jerusalem. This king heard that Joshua had defeated Ai and completely destroyed it. The king learned that Joshua had done the same thing to Jericho and its king. The king also learned that the people of Gibeon had made a peace agreement with Israel. And those people lived very near Jerusalem.

Joshua 10:2

So Adoni Zedek and his people were very scared. Gibeon was not a little town like Ai. Gibeon was a very big city—it was as big as any royal city. [47] And all the men in that city were good fighters. So the king was afraid.

Joshua 10:28

That day Joshua defeated Makkedah. Joshua killed the king and the people in that city. There were no people left living. Joshua did the same thing to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:30

The Lord allowed the people of Israel to defeat that city and its king. The people of Israel killed every person in that city. No people were left alive. And the people did the same thing to that king as they had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 11:19

Only one city in all the land made a peace agreement with Israel. That was the Hivite city of Gibeon. All the other cities were defeated in war.

Joshua 18:25

The family group of Benjamin also got Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

Joshua 21:17

They also gave Aaron’s descendants cities that belonged to the family group of Benjamin. These cities were Gibeon, Geba,

Joshua 9:17

So the people of Israel went to the place where those men lived. On the third day the people of Israel came to the cities of Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

Joshua 9:22

Joshua called the Gibeonite people. He said, “Why did you lie to us? Your land was near our camp. But you told us you were from a faraway country.

Joshua 9:4

So those people decided to try to fool the people of Israel. This was their plan: They gathered together old wineskins [45] that were cracked and broken. They put these old wine skins on the backs of their animals. They put old pieces of cloth on their animals to look like they had traveled from far away.