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Joshua 10:6

in Joshua 10

Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal: “Do not abandon your servants. Come quickly and save us! Help us, because all the kings of the Amorites from the hill country have joined forces against us.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill-country are gathered together against us.

KJV

And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.

This verse in Joshua 10

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
The language reflects the urgency of the crisis. Accordingly Joshua made a forced march, accompanied only by his soldiers Jos 10:7, and accomplished in a single night the distance from Gilgal to Gibeon (about 15 miles in a direct line), which on a former occasion had been a three days’ journey Jos 9:17.

This site's exposition

Do not abandon your servants

on Joshua 10:6-7

Gibeon calls in the treaty, and the oath of 9:15 and 9:19 obliges Joshua to march for a city that won its treaty by lying. Matthew Henry observes that the deceivers now lean wholly on Joshua’s word, and he brings his whole army.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Origen of Alexandria

HOMILIES ON JOSHUA 11.2 · Written before 253.

proposed

There is no doubt that when a human soul associates itself with the Word of God, it is immediately going to have enemies, and that those it once considered friends will be changed into adversaries. The soul should not only expect to suffer this from humans, but it should also know that such will likewise be forthcoming from opposing powers and spiritual iniquities.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

David thinks it a good plea with God ( Ps. lxix. 7 ), For thy sake I have borne reproach. When our spiritual enemies set themselves in array against us, and threaten to swallow us up, let us, by faith and prayer, apply to Christ, our Joshua, for strength and succour, as Paul did, and we shall receive the same answer of peace, My grace is sufficient for thee, 2 Cor. xii.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

It was evidently to be a struggle of life and death, not only to Gibeon, but to the Israelites. And in this view the divine communication that was made to him was seasonable and animating.

The words behind it

27 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.

  • וַיִּשְׁלְח֣וּand they sent

    vaiyishlechuH7971 →845 times

  • אַנְשֵׁי֩[the] men of

    ʾansheiH582 →566 times

  • גִבְע֨וֹןGibeon

    givonH1391 →38 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֤עַJoshua

    yehoshua'H3091 →218 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַֽמַּחֲנֶה֙the camp

    hamachanehH4264 →215 times

  • הַגִּלְגָּ֣לָה<the> Gilgal towards

    hagilgalahH1537 →41 times

  • לֵאמֹ֔ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • אַל־may not

    ʾal-H408 →724 times

  • תֶּ֥רֶףyou let drop

    terefH7503 →46 times

  • יָדֶ֖יךָhands your

    yadeikhaH3027 →1618 times

  • מֵֽעֲבָדֶ֑יךָfrom servants your

    meavadeikhaH5650 →799 times

  • עֲלֵ֧הcome up

    ʾalehH5927 →890 times

  • אֵלֵ֣ינוּto us

    ʾeleinuH413 →5510 times

  • מְהֵרָ֗הquickly

    meherahH4120 →20 times

  • וְהוֹשִׁ֤יעָהand save !

    vehoshiahH3467 →

  • לָּ֙נוּ֙<to> <the> us

    lanu

  • וְעָזְרֵ֔נוּand help us

    veazerenuH5826 →81 times

  • כִּ֚יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • נִקְבְּצ֣וּthey have gathered together

    nikbetzuH6908 →

  • אֵלֵ֔ינוּagainst us

    ʾeleinuH413 →5510 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • מַלְכֵ֥י[the] kings of

    malkheiH4428 →2525 times

  • הָאֱמֹרִ֖יthe Amorite[s]

    haemoriH567 →87 times

  • יֹשְׁבֵ֥י[the] inhabitants of

    yosheveiH3427 →1079 times

  • הָהָֽר׃the hill country

    haharH2022 →546 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 9:15

    And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 21:2

      At this, David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but in his zeal…

    • Deuteronomy 20:10–11

      When you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace.

    • Joshua 11:19

      No city made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites living in Gibeon; all others were taken in battle.

    • Joshua 6:22–25

      Meanwhile, Joshua told the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the house of the prostitute and bring out the woman and all who are with her, just as you promised…

  • Through

    Joshua 9:6

    They went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land; please make a treaty with us.”

    it leads to

    • Joshua 5:10

      On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.

  • Through

    Joshua 5:10

    On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 12:6

      You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.

    • Numbers 9:1–5

      In the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:

  • Through

    Luke 1:39

    In those days Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judah,

    it leads to

    • Luke 1:65

      All their neighbors were filled with awe, and people throughout the hill country of Judea were talking about these events.

Where this verse is studied

About Joshua

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Origen of Alexandria, HOMILIES ON JOSHUA 11.2.