And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
Girgashites. The mention of this Canaanite tribe occurs only once (Joshua 3:10), while the other six nations are constantly enumerated as carrying on the war; and hence, the insertion of their name in this passage seems merely a recapitulation of the nations, whose land God delivered into the hand of the Jews, according to His promise (Deuteronomy 7:1; Graves, 2:, p. 44).