Joshua 9:3

Gibeon — A great and royal city of the Hivites.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Gibeon was the head of the four towns Joshua 9:17 occupied by the Hivites Joshua 11:19 . The inhabitants were Amorites 2 Samuel 21:2 ; the name...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 9. The Stratagem of the Gibeonites. This account, though composite, is straightforward enough if Joshua 9:17-21 be omitted. These verses...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

inhabitants. The Gibeonires were Hivites ( Joshua 9:7 ), condemned to extermination as mixed with the descendants of the Nephilim (App-26). Exod...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

3. And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard, etc. The inhabitants of Gibeon alone rejecting the proposal to make war have recourse to fraud,...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai, The inhabitants of Gibeon heard - These alone did not join the...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 3. And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard, &c.— The city of Gibeon, which was much more considerable than Ai, was, according to Euse...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai, When the inhabitants of Gibeon heard. This town, as its...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The League with the Gibeonites Joshua 9 forms an introduction to the narrative of the Southern campaign ( Joshua 10 ). The Gibeonite cities were...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Gibeon ] 2 m. N. of Jerusalem. For its importance see on Joshua 10:2 ; Joshua 10:10 .
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

THE GIBEONITES MAKE PEACE WITH JOSHUA ( Joshua 9:3-27 ). (3) The inhabitants of Gibeon. — Hivites, as appears by Joshua 9:7 . Gibeon was one memb...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XVIII. THE STRATAGEM OF THE GIBEONITES. Joshua 9:1-27 . WE now resume the thread of the story interrupted by the narrative of the trans...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Deceived by the Gibeonites Joshua 9:1-15 The presence of common peril forced the nations of Canaan to combine for self-preservation. Would that...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The fame and the dread of the people by this time were spreading far and wide. The kings of Canaan, conscious of their danger, formed a league agains...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The Gibeonites, as appears by Joshua 9:17 , possessed four cities in the country of the Hivites.
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And when the inhabitants of Gibeon ,.... A large and royal city, a metropolitan one, which had three others belonging to it, and under it, mentioned...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai, Ver. 3. And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard, &c. ]...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And when Rather, but when; the inhabitants of Gibeon A great and royal city of the Hivites. They made as if they had been ambassadors Sent from...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

DECEIVED BY THE GIBEONITES (vs.1-27) The calm deliberation with which the Lord was acting gave time for the forces of the enemy to be marshaled a...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Artifice of the Gibeonites. B. C. 1450....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Or, but when the inhabitants ; for he shows that these took another and a wiser course. Gibeon; a great and royal city of the Hivites, Joshua 10...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Gibeonite Conspiracy ( Joshua 9:3-27 ). The next shock that shook Canaan was that with Jericho, Ai and Bethel defeated, and a way into Canaan...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Joshua 9:3 . The inhabitants of Gibeon ] “Gibeon was a city situated, as its name indicates, upon a hill. It was about forty stadia from Jerusalem,...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joshua 9:1 . All the kings to fight with Joshua. They realized the ancient proverb, Quem Deus vult perdere, primum dementat. He whom God destroy...
The Biblical Illustrator

The inhabitants of Gibeon . .. did work wilily. A Canaanitish stratagem I. How this device originated. 1. Their wisdom suggested it. The...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE GIBEONITES .— Joshua 9:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings. According to the explanation given above ( Joshua 6:...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Gibeonites Deceive Joshua and the Princes
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And when the inhabitants of Gibeon, the capital of a small independent state in the mountains northwest of Jerusalem, the principality containing a n...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 21:1 ; 2 Samuel 21:2 ; Joshua 10:2 ; Joshua 6:1-27 ; Joshua 8:1-35 ; Joshua 9:17

³ And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,

Related Commentaries of Joshua 9:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joshua 9:3