Joshua 10:4

Joshua 10:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
• New International Version (NIV)“Come up and help me attack Gibeon,” he said, “because it has made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)"Come up to me and help me, and let us strike Gibeon. For it has made peace with Joshua and with the people of Israel."
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Come up to me and help me, that we may attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.”

Context of Joshua 10:4

2that he feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty. 3Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron and to Piram king of Jarmuth and to Japhia king of Lachish and to Debir king of Eglon, saying, “Come up to me and help me, and let us attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and with the sons of Israel.” 5So 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 together and went up, they with all their armies, and camped by Gibeon and fought against it. 6Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Do not abandon your servants; come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites that live in the hill country have assembled against us.”

Joshua 10:4 word by word

עֲלֽוּ־אֵלַ֣י וְעִזְרֻ֔נִי וְנַכֶּ֖ה אֶת־גִּבְע֑וֹן כִּֽי־הִשְׁלִ֥ימָה אֶת־יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ וְאֶת־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Read the interlinear

• Comeעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: riseH5927
• up to me and helpעָזַר‛âzar · to helpH5826
• attackנָכָהnâkâh · to smiteH5221
• Gibeonגִּבְעוֹןgib‛ôn · GibeonH1391
• madeשָׁלַםshâlam · to allyH7999
• peaceשָׁלַםshâlam · to allyH7999
• with Joshuaיְהוֹשׁוּעַyehôshûa‛ yehôshûa‛ · JoshuaH3091
• and with the sonsבֵּןbên · son: descendant/peopleH1121
• of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478

Cross-references for Joshua 10:4

• Isaiah 8:9“Be broken, O peoples, and be shattered; And give ear, all remote places of the earth. Gird yourselves, yet be shattered; Gird yourselves, yet be shattered.
• Isaiah 41:5The coastlands have seen and are afraid; The ends of the earth tremble; They have drawn near and have come.
• Acts 9:24but their plot became known to Saul. They were also watching the gates day and night so that they might put him to death;
• Acts 21:28crying out, “Men of Israel, come to our aid! This is the man who preaches to all men everywhere against our people and the Law and this place; and besides he has even brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place.”
• Revelation 16:14for they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them together for the war of the great day of God, the Almighty.
• Revelation 20:8and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the sand of the seashore.
• Joshua 10:1Now it came about when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai, and had utterly destroyed it (just as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king), and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were within their land,
• Joshua 9:15Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.
• Matthew 16:24Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.
• John 15:19If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.
• John 16:2They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.
• Acts 9:23When many days had elapsed, the Jews plotted together to do away with him,
• 2 Timothy 3:12Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
• James 4:4You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
• 1 Peter 4:4In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, and they malign you;

Commentaries on Joshua 10:4

• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-43Gibeon and its neighboring cities were on a plateau (high flat place) north of Jerusalem (see study note on 7:2). With Gibeon now as an ally with Israel, Israel controlled the plateau and the central hill country near Gibeon. Historically, controlling the plateau often meant controlling the hill country. The kings of Canaan had to conquer Gibeon, or they would fail.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3-43-4. Wherefore Adoni-zedek ... sent, ... saying, Come up unto me, and help me--A combined attack was meditated on Gibeon, with a view not only to punish its people for their desertion of the native cause, but by its overthrow to interpose a barrier to the farther inroads of the Israelites. This confederacy among the mountaineers of Southern Palestine was formed and headed by the king of Jerusalem, because his territory was most exposed to danger, Gibeon…Read the comment

Topics related to Joshua 10:4

• Adoni-Zedek
• Amorites
• Armies
• Confederacies
• Debir
• Hebron
• Jerusalem
• War

In the dictionaries

• Gibeon
• Israel
• Joshua
• Children of Israel
• Adonizedec
• Adoni-Zedek
• Eglon (2)
• Exodus, the Book of
• Genealogy
• Hoham

Commentaries on Joshua 10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings