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Joshua 10:9 KJV
Joshua · chapter 10 · verse 9
Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night.Joshua 10:9 · King James Version
Joshua 10:9 in context
7So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour.
8And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.
9Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night.
10And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
11And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- suddenlypithʼôwminstantlyH6597 →
- JoshuaYᵉhôwshûwaʻJehoshua , the Jewish leaderH3091 →
- GilgalGilgâlGilgal, the name of three places in PalestineH1537 →
- camebôwʼto go or comeH935 →
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Here, I. Joshua resolves to assist the Gibeonites, and God encourages him in this resolve. 1. He ascended from Gilgal (Jos 10:7), that is, he designed, determined, and prepared for, this expedition to relieve Gibeon, for it is probable it was before he stirred a step that God spoke to him to encourage him.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-14