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Joshua 9:1

in Joshua 9

Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)—

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And it came to pass, when all the kings that were beyond the Jordan, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;

KJV

And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;

This verse in Joshua 9

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
In the hills - See the Num 13:17 note. The valleys - Or “the vale” (the Shephelah, Deu 1:7), which imports the lowland country between the mountains and the sea coast.

This site's exposition

when all the kings which

on Joshua 9:1-2

The kings on this side Jordan hear what the kings of 5:1 heard, and where those hearts melted these men combine. The six nations named here are the six of Exodus 3:8 and Deuteronomy 20:17, which is the list the ban was written against. Their answer to the news stands first in the chapter so it can be weighed against Gibeon's answer two verses later, since both are reacting to the same report.

The record, by era

The Reformation1 voice

A commentator

John Calvin

1509–1564

Commentaries (1554)

And it came to pass when all the kings, etc. As the arrival of the people was well known to these kings from the very first, it is certain that their minds were intoxicated from above with security or lethargy, so that they did not forthwith league together to oppose them.

The words behind it

22 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְהִ֣יand it was

    vayhiH19613559 times

  • כִשְׁמֹ֣עַwhen heard

    khishmoa'H80851159 times

  • כָּֽל־all

    kal-H36055413 times

  • הַמְּלָכִ֡יםthe kings

    hamelakhimH44282525 times

  • אֲשֶׁר֩who

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • בְּעֵ֨בֶר[were] on [the] other side of

    beeverH567690 times

  • הַיַּרְדֵּ֜ןthe Jordan

    haiyardenH3383182 times

  • בָּהָ֣רin the hill country

    baharH2022546 times

  • וּבַשְּׁפֵלָ֗הand in the Shephelah

    uvashefelahH821920 times

  • וּבְכֹל֙and in all

    uvekholH36055413 times

  • ח֚וֹף[the] coast of

    chofH2348

  • הַיָּ֣םthe sea

    haiyamH3220396 times

  • הַגָּד֔וֹל<the> great

    hagadolH1419526 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • מ֖וּל[the] front of

    mulH413636 times

  • הַלְּבָנ֑וֹן<the> Lebanon

    halevanonH384471 times

  • הַֽחִתִּי֙the Hittite[s]

    hachitiH285048 times

  • וְהָ֣אֱמֹרִ֔יand the Amorite[s]

    vehaemoriH56787 times

  • הַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙the Canaanite[s]

    hakenaaniH366973 times

  • הַפְּרִזִּ֔יthe Perizzite[s]

    haperiziH652223 times

  • הַחִוִּ֖יthe Hivite[s]

    hachiviH234025 times

  • וְהַיְבוּסִֽי׃and the Jebusite[s]

    vehayvusiH298341 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Joshua 3:10

    He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 7:1

      When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations…

    • Exodus 33:2

      And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

    • Psalms 44:2–3

      With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.

    • Hebrews 10:31

      It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

  • Through

    Exodus 23:23

    For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 23:20

      Behold, I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.

  • Through

    Joshua 13:5

    the land of the Gebalites; and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 5:18

      So Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the construction of the temple.

    • Joshua 12:7

      And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir…

  • Through

    Exodus 3:17

    And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

    it leads to

    • Genesis 15:13–21

      Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

About Joshua

The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Calvin, Commentaries; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.