Joshua 9:3

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

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

Cross References

Joshua 10:2

So Adoni Zedek and his people were very frightened. Gibeon was not a small town like Ai. It was a very big city—as big as any royal city. And all the men in that city were good fighters, so the king was afraid.

Joshua 9:17

So the Israelites went to the place where they lived. On the third day the Israelites came to the cities of Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

Joshua 9:4

So they decided to try to trick the Israelites. This was their plan: They gathered together old wineskins that were cracked and broken. They put these old wineskins on the backs of their animals. They put old pieces of cloth on their animals to look as if they had traveled from far away.

Joshua 9:22

Joshua called the Gibeonites together. 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 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 21:17

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

Jeremiah 28:1

In the fifth month of the fourth year that Zedekiah was king of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur spoke to me. 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. He 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. He also learned that the Gibeonites had made a peace agreement with Israel and that they lived very near Jerusalem.

Joshua 10:28

That day Joshua defeated Makkedah. He killed the king and the people in that city. No one was left alive. Joshua did the same thing to the king of Makkedah that he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:30

The Lord allowed the Israelites to defeat that city and its king. They killed everyone in the city. No one was left alive. And they did the same thing to that king as they had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 18:25

The tribe of Benjamin also got Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

2 Samuel 2:12

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

1 Chronicles 12:4

Ishmaiah the Gibeonite (a hero and leader of the Thirty Heroes); Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, and Jozabad from the Gederathites;