Tree of Life Version
Joshua 9:2
2they gathered themselves together as a unified alliance to fight against Joshua and Israel.
Joshua 9:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
- New International Version (NIV)they came together to wage war against Joshua and Israel.
- English Standard Version (ESV)they gathered together as one to fight against Joshua and Israel.
- New King James Version (NKJV)that they gathered together to fight with Joshua and Israel with one accord.
Context of Joshua 9:2
1Now when all the kings who were west of the Jordan, in the hill country, in the lowland and along the shore of the Great Sea to the vicinity of Lebanon—the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites—heard about it, they gathered themselves together as a unified alliance to fight against Joshua and Israel. 3But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai, 4they acted craftily. They went and traveled as ambassadors, took worn-out sacks for their donkeys and worn-out wine skins, cracked and patched up,
Read all of Joshua 9Joshua 9:2 word by word
וַיִּֽתְקַבְּצ֣וּ יַחְדָּ֔ו לְהִלָּחֵ֥ם עִם־יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ וְעִם־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל פֶּ֖ה אֶחָֽד׃ פRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Joshua 9:2
- 2 Chronicles 20:1Now it happened after this that the Moabites and the Ammonites together with other Ammonites came to make war against Jehoshaphat.
- Psalms 2:1Why are the nations in an uproar, and the peoples mutter vanity?
- Psalms 83:2God, do not keep silent. Do not hold Your peace, O God. Do not be still.
- Proverbs 11:21Be sure, the evil will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.
- Isaiah 8:9Make an uproar, O peoples— but you will be broken in pieces. Give ear, all you of far countries. Arm yourselves—yet be shattered! Arm yourselves—yet be shattered!
- Isaiah 54:15Behold, anyone fiercely attacking is not from Me. Whoever stirs up strife with you will fall because of you.
- Acts 4:26The kings of the earth took their stand and the rulers were gathered together against Adonai and against His Anointed One.’
- Revelation 16:14For they are demonic spirits performing miraculous signs, who go out to the kings of the whole world—to gather them for battle on the great Day of Elohei Tzva’ot.
- Revelation 20:8and he shall come out to deceive the nations at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for the battle. Their number is like the sand of the sea.
Commentaries on Joshua 9:2
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2Chapter 10 gives a detailed account of these kings and why they joined forces to fight the Israelites.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord--Although divided by separate interests and often at war with each other, a sense of common danger prompted them to suspend their mutual animosities, that by their united forces they might prevent the land from falling into the hands of foreign masters.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Joshua 9
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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