4Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
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And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.
Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Joshua and the hosts of Israel had now been a good while in the land of Canaan, and no great matters were effected; they were made masters of Jericho by a miracle, of Ai by stratagem, and of Gibeon by surrender, and that was all; hitherto the progress of their victories had not seemed proportionable to the magnificence of their entry and the glory of their beginnings. Those among them that were im…
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