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Joshua 10:9

So Joshua, having come up from Gilgal all night, made a sudden attack on them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adoni-Zedek;   Amorites;   Armies;   Debir;   Hebron;   War;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Canaanites, the;   Gibeonites;   Jerusalem;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Adonizedek;   Beth-Horon;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gibeon;   Gilgal;   Joshua the son of nun;   Palestine;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Adoni-Zedec;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Amorites;   Japhia;   Joshua, the Book of;   Night March;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Adoni-Bezek;   Adoni-Zedek;   Israel;   Joshua;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Adonizedec ;   Eglon ;   Gibeon ;   Gilgal;   Jebusites ;   Lachish ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Adonizedek;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Lachish;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Adonize'dek;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hoham;   Joshua, Book of;   Palestine;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Adonizedek;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jebusites;   Merom;   War;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So Joshua caught them by surprise, after marching all night from Gilgal.
Hebrew Names Version
Yehoshua therefore came on them suddenly; [for] he went up from Gilgal all the night.
King James Version
Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night.
Lexham English Bible
Joshua came upon them suddenly by marching up all night from Gilgal.
English Standard Version
So Joshua came upon them suddenly, having marched up all night from Gilgal.
New Century Version
Joshua and his army marched all night from Gilgal for a surprise attack.
New English Translation
Joshua attacked them by surprise after marching all night from Gilgal.
Amplified Bible
So Joshua came upon them suddenly, [surprising them] by marching [uphill] all night from Gilgal.
New American Standard Bible
So Joshua came upon them suddenly by marching all night from Gilgal.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Ioshua therefore came vnto them suddenly: for he went vp from Gilgal all the night.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Joshua came upon them suddenly—he had gone up, marching all night from Gilgal.
Contemporary English Version
Joshua marched all night from Gilgal to Gibeon and made a surprise attack on the Amorite camp.
Complete Jewish Bible
Having spent the entire night marching up from Gilgal, Y'hoshua fell upon them, taking them by surprise.
Darby Translation
And Joshua came upon them suddenly; he went up from Gilgal all night.
Easy-to-Read Version
Joshua and his army marched all night to Gibeon, so it was a complete surprise when he attacked them.
George Lamsa Translation
Joshua therefore came to them suddenly, going up all night from Gilgal.
Good News Translation
All night Joshua and his army marched from Gilgal to Gibeon, and they made a surprise attack on the Amorites.
Literal Translation
And Joshua came to them suddenly (he had traveled all night from Gilgal)
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So Iosua came sodenly vpon them, for all that night wente he vp from Gilgall.
American Standard Version
Joshua therefore came upon them suddenly; for he went up from Gilgal all the night.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iosuah therfore came vnto them sodaynly, and went vp from Gilgal all nyght.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Joshua therefore came upon them suddenly; for he went up from Gilgal all the night.
King James Version (1611)
Ioshua therefore came vnto them suddenly, and went vp from Gilgal all night.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And when Joshua came suddenly upon them, he had advanced all the night out of Galgala.
English Revised Version
Joshua therefore came upon them suddenly; for he went up from Gilgal all the night.
Berean Standard Bible
After marching all night from Gilgal, Joshua caught them by surprise.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Josue felde sodenli on hem, and stiede in al the nyyt fro Galgala;
Young's Literal Translation
And Joshua cometh in unto them suddenly (all the night he hath gone up from Gilgal),
Update Bible Version
Joshua therefore came on them suddenly; [for] he went up from Gilgal all the night.
Webster's Bible Translation
Joshua therefore came to them suddenly, [and] went up from Gilgal all night.
World English Bible
Joshua therefore came on them suddenly; [for] he went up from Gilgal all the night.
New King James Version
Joshua therefore came upon them suddenly, having marched all night from Gilgal.
New Living Translation
Joshua traveled all night from Gilgal and took the Amorite armies by surprise.
New Life Bible
So Joshua came upon them by surprise by traveling all night from Gilgal.
New Revised Standard
So Joshua came upon them suddenly, having marched up all night from Gilgal.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then Joshua came in unto them, suddenly, - all the night, came he up, from Gilgal.
Douay-Rheims Bible
So Josue going up from Galgal all the night, came upon them suddenly.
Revised Standard Version
So Joshua came upon them suddenly, having marched up all night from Gilgal.
THE MESSAGE
Joshua marched all night from Gilgal and took them by total surprise. God threw them into total confusion before Israel, a major victory at Gibeon. Israel chased them along the ridge to Beth Horon and fought them all the way down to Azekah and Makkedah. As they ran from the People of Israel, down from the Beth Horon ridge and all the way to Azekah, God pitched huge stones on them out of the sky and many died. More died from the hailstones than the People of Israel killed with the sword.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Joshua came upon them suddenly by marching all night from Gilgal.

Contextual Overview

7 So Joshua went up from Gilgal with all his army and all his men of war. 8 And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them, for I have given them into your hands; they will all give way before you. 9 So Joshua, having come up from Gilgal all night, made a sudden attack on them. 10 And the Lord made them full of fear before Israel, and they put great numbers of them to death at Gibeon, and went after them by the way going up to Beth-horon, driving them back to Azekah and Makkedah 11 And in their flight before Israel, on the way down from Beth-horon, the Lord sent down great stones from heaven on them all the way to Azekah, causing their death: those whose death was caused by the stones were more than those whom the children of Israel put to death with the sword. 12 It was on the day when the Lord gave up the Amorites into the hands of the children of Israel that Joshua said to the Lord, before the eyes of Israel, Sun, be at rest over Gibeon; and you, O moon, in the valley of Aijalon. 13 And the sun was at rest and the moon kept its place till the nation had given punishment to their attackers. (Is it not recorded in the book of Jashar?) So the sun kept its place in the middle of the heavens, and was waiting, and did not go down, for the space of a day. 14 And there was no day like that, before it or after it, when the Lord gave ear to the voice of a man; for the Lord was fighting for Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

all night: 1 Samuel 11:9-11, Proverbs 22:29, Proverbs 24:11, Proverbs 24:12, Ecclesiastes 9:10, 2 Timothy 2:3, 2 Timothy 4:2

Reciprocal: Joshua 11:7 - suddenly 1 Samuel 14:36 - Let us go 1 Samuel 25:34 - hasted Nehemiah 2:12 - I arose

Cross-References

Genesis 6:4
There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.
Genesis 6:11
And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.
Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.
Genesis 25:27
And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
Genesis 27:30
And when Isaac had come to the end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had not long gone away from Isaac his father, Esau came in from the field.
2 Chronicles 28:22
And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.
Psalms 52:7
See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.
Jeremiah 16:16
See, I will send for great numbers of fishermen, says the Lord, and they will take them like fish in a net; and after that, I will send for numbers of bowmen, and they will go after them, driving them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
Ezekiel 13:18
This is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the women who are stitching bands on all arms and putting veils on the heads of those of every size, so that they may go after souls! Will you go after the souls of my people and keep yourselves safe from death?
Micah 7:2
The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly,.... Which no doubt threw them into consternation and confusion:

[and] went up from Gilgal all night; he chose the night for secrecy and surprise, and that he might be the sooner with the enemy, and to the assistance and relief of Gibeon; and as it was about nine or ten miles from Gilgal to Gibeon, it was easily performed in a night's march;

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Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 10:9. Joshua - came unto them suddenly — This he did by a forced march during the night, for he went up from Gilgal all night; from Gilgal to Gibeon was about eighteen or twenty miles; and, having fallen so unexpectedly on these confederate kings, they were immediately thrown into confusion.


 
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