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Verse Joshua 9:16. _AT THE END OF THREE DAYS_] _Gibeon_ is reputed to
be only about eight leagues distant from Gilgal, and on this account
the fraud might be easily discovered in the time mentioned ab...
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9. THE GIBEONITES
CHAPTER 9
_ 1. The confederacy of the enemies (Joshua 9:1)_
2. The deception of the Gibeonites (Joshua 9:3)
3. The failure (Joshua 9:14)
4. The deception discovered ...
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JOSHUA 9. THE STRATAGEM OF THE GIBEONITES. This account, though
composite, is straightforward enough if Joshua 9:17 be omitted. These
verses _give_ an account by the priestly writer in which the princ...
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The Embassy of the Gibeonites
3. _of Gibeon_ This city was the head of the four towns occupied by
the Hivites, the other three being Chephirah, Beeroth, and
Kirjath-jearim (Joshua 9:17). It appears to...
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_VER._ 16. _AND—AT THE END OF THREE DAYS—THEY HEARD THAT THEY WERE
THEIR NEIGHBOURS_— Montanus's opinion of this matter is very
probable. The pretended ambassadors of the Gibeonites having informed
th...
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_The Servitude of the Gibeonites Joshua 9:16-27_
16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a
league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and
that they d...
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_AND IT CAME TO PASS AT THE END OF THREE DAYS AFTER THEY HAD MADE A
LEAGUE WITH THEM, THAT THEY HEARD THAT THEY WERE THEIR NEIGHBOURS, AND
THAT THEY DWELT AMONG THEM._
At the end of three days ... th...
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THE LEAGUE WITH THE GIBEONITES
Joshua 9 forms an introduction to the narrative of the Southern
campaign (Joshua 10). The Gibeonite cities were important enough both
politically and geographically (see...
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COME IN, AND RECEIVE GOD’S PROMISES!
JOSHUA
_BRIAN ROWLANDS_
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CHAPTER 9
THE *ISRAELITES BECOME FRIENDS WITH THEIR...
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THEIR NEIGHBOURS, AND THEY THAT DWELT AMONG THEM. — Literally, _and
that they_ (the Gibeonites) _were dwellers in the midst of him_
(Israel). (So Joshua 9:7.)...
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וַ יְהִ֗י מִ קְצֵה֙ שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת
יָמִ֔ים אַחֲרֵ
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CHAPTER XVIII.
THE STRATAGEM OF THE GIBEONITES.
Joshua 9:1.
WE now resume the thread of the story interrupted by the narrative of
the transaction at Ebal and Gerizim. We learn from the testimony of...
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“HEWERS OF WOOD AND DRAWERS OF WATER”
Joshua 9:16
The faith of these people was so far rewarded that, while their
deception was punished by their reduction to the most menial tasks,
yet their lives w...
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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 against the oncoming hosts.
However, before they had time...
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TROUBLE WITH THE GIBEONITES
Joshua 9:1-27; Joshua 10:1-43; Joshua 11:1-23
God had instructed Israel to destroy the Canaanites when they came
into the land ...
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When we consider the motives for which Gibeon sought the peace of
Israel, because as they said, they had, heard of the Lord God of
Israel: when we add to this consideration, that the people of Israel,...
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In the wars of Jehovah it was not always a question of hostile power.
Indeed this is not the most serious evil which the people of God have
to encounter in this world. The very same principle which wa...
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16._And it came to pass, _etc. The chastisement of their levity by the
discovery of the fraud, three days after, must, by the swiftness of
the punishment, have made them more sensible of the shame and...
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But, if such a position as this proclaims the rights of God and
manifests the confidence of the people, it soon leads to conflict. The
enemy will not consent to the invasion and the taking possession...
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AND IT CAME TO PASS AT THE END OF THREE DAYS, AFTER THEY HAD MADE A
LEAGUE WITH THEM,.... The league seems to have been made the same day
they came; the Gibeonites were no doubt in haste to have it co...
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And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a
league with them, that they heard that they [were] their neighbours,
and [that] they dwelt among them.
Ver. 16. _At the end of three...
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1 The kings combine against Israel.
3 The Gibeonites by craft obtaine a League.
16 For which they are condemned to perpetual bondage.
1 AND it came to passe when all the kings which were on this si...
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And it came to pass at the end of three days, after they had made a
league with them, that they, the Israelites, HEARD THAT THEY, the
Gibeonites, WERE THEIR NEIGHBORS, AND THAT THEY DWELT AMONG THEM,...
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The Deception Discovered and Punished....
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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 against Israel. Six nations, the
Hittites, Amorites, Ca...
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14-21 The Israelites, having examined the provisions of the
Gibeonites, hastily concluded that they confirmed their account. We
make more haste than good speed, when we stay not to take God with us,...
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AT THE END OF THREE DAYS, i.e. at the last of them, or upon the third
day, as it is said JOSHUA 9:17; so this phrase is elsewhere used, as
DEUTERONOMY 14:28, DEUTERONOMY 31:10. Or it may be properly u...
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Joshua 9:16 end H7097 three H7969 days H3117 after H310 made H3772
(H8804) covenant H1285 heard H8085 ...
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‘ And so it was that at the end of three days, after they had made a
treaty-covenant with them, that they heard that they were their
neighbours and that they dwelt among them.'
Then after a few days h...
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CONTENTS: The league with the Gibeonites.
CHARACTERS: God, Joshua, ambassadors of the Gibeonites.
CONCLUSION: We make more haste than good progress in any business when
we do not stop to take God al...
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Joshua 9:1. _All the kings to fight with Joshua._ They realized the
ancient proverb, _Quem Deus vult perdere, primum dementat._ He whom
God destroys is first mad.
Joshua 9:4. _Wine bottles, old and re...
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_The inhabitants of Gibeon _. .. _ did work wilily._
A CANAANITISH STRATAGEM
I. How this device originated.
1. Their wisdom suggested it. The selfsame facts suggest different
courses of action to th...
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JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 9:1 Having failed to consult the Lord, Israel
is tricked into making a peace covenant with the Gibeonites. The
Gibeonites claimed to be from a “distant country” (v. Joshua 9:6)
b...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Joshua 9:17. On the third day] That is the same as “at the end of
three days” in Joshua 9:16. “The armed men would move from Gilgal
to Gibeon (about twelve miles) in the same day on w...
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EXPOSITION
THE GIBEONITES.—
JOSHUA 9:1
AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN ALL THE KINGS. According to the explanation
given above (Joshua 6:5, Joshua 6:15) of the
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This time shall we turn to the book of Joshua, chapter nine as we
begin our study this evening.
Now the children of Israel had conquered Jericho and Ai, which were
strong cities. The kings that were i...
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Proverbs 12:19...
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Three days — That is, at the last of them, or upon the third day, as
it is said, Joshua 9:17....