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the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Green's Literal Translation

Joshua 10:4

Come up to me and help me. And we shall strike Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua, and with the sons of Israel.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

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

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adoni-Zedek;   Hoham;   Japhia (1);   Jarmuth;   Joshua, Book of;   Palestine;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Adonizedek;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hoham;   Jebusites;   YiẓḥaḲ ben Ṭablai;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Come up and help me. We will attack Gibeon, because they have made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.”
Hebrew Names Version
Come up to me, and help me, and let us strike Giv`on; for it has made shalom with Yehoshua and with the children of Yisra'el.
King James Version
Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
Lexham English Bible
"Come up and help me, and let us attack Gibeon, because it has made peace with Joshua and the Israelites."
English Standard Version
"Come up to me and help me, and let us strike Gibeon. For it has made peace with Joshua and with the people of Israel."
New Century Version
"Come with me and help me attack Gibeon, which has made a peace agreement with Joshua and the Israelites."
New English Translation
"Come to my aid so we can attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and the Israelites."
Amplified Bible
"Come up to me and help me, and let us attack Gibeon [with a combined army], because it has made peace with Joshua and with the sons (people) of Israel."
New American Standard Bible
"Come up to me and help me, and let's attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and with the sons of Israel."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Come vp vnto me, and helpe me, that we may smite Gibeon: for they haue made peace with Ioshua and with the children of Israel.
Legacy Standard Bible
"Come up to me and help me, and let us strike Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and with the sons of Israel."
Contemporary English Version
"The Gibeonites have signed a peace treaty with Joshua and the Israelites. Come and help me attack Gibeon!"
Complete Jewish Bible
"Come up and help me, and we'll attack Giv‘on, because it has made peace with Y'hoshua and the people of Isra'el."
Darby Translation
Come up to me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Come with me and help me attack Gibeon. Gibeon has made a peace agreement with Joshua and the Israelites."
George Lamsa Translation
Come up to me and help me, and let us fight against Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
Good News Translation
"Come and help me attack Gibeon, because its people have made peace with Joshua and the Israelites."
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Come vp vnto me, and helpe me, that we maie smyte Gibeon, for they haue made peace with Iosua and the children of Israel.
American Standard Version
Come up unto me, and help me, and let us smite Gibeon; for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
Bible in Basic English
Come up to me and give me help, and let us make an attack on Gibeon: for they have made peace with Joshua and the children of Israel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Come vp vnto me, and helpe me, that we may smite Gibeon: for they haue made peace with Iosuah, and with the children of Israel.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Come up unto me, and help me, and let us smite Gibeon; for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.'
King James Version (1611)
Come vp vnto me, and helpe me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Ioshua, and with the children of Israel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Come up hither to me, and help me, and let us take Gabaon; for the Gabaonites have gone over to Joshua and to the children of Israel.
English Revised Version
Come up unto me, and help me, and let us smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
Berean Standard Bible
"Come up and help me. We will attack Gibeon, because they have made peace with Joshua and the Israelites."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Stie ye to me, and helpe ye, that we fiyte ayens Gabaon, for it was yoldun to Josue, and to the sones of Israel.
Young's Literal Translation
`Come up unto me, and help me, and we smite Gibeon, for it hath made peace with Joshua, and with the sons of Israel.'
Update Bible Version
Come up to me, and help me, and let us smite Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the sons of Israel.
Webster's Bible Translation
Come up to me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
World English Bible
Come up to me, and help me, and let us strike Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
New King James Version
"Come up to me and help me, that we may attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel."
New Living Translation
"Come and help me destroy Gibeon," he urged them, "for they have made peace with Joshua and the people of Israel."
New Life Bible
"Come and help me. Let us go fight against Gibeon. For it has made peace with Joshua and the people of Israel."
New Revised Standard
"Come up and help me, and let us attack Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the Israelites."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Come up unto me and help me, that we may smite Gibeon, - for it hath made peace with Joshua, and with the sons of Israel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Come up to me, and bring help, that we may take Gabaon, because it hath gone over to Josue, and to the children of Israel.
Revised Standard Version
"Come up to me, and help me, and let us smite Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the people of Israel."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Come up to me and help me, and let us attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and with the sons of Israel."

Contextual Overview

1 And it happened, when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai, and had destroyed it (as he had done to Jericho and to its king, so he had done to Ai and to her king) and that the ones living in Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were in their midst, 2 they were greatly afraid because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty. 3 And Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, and to Piram king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying, 4 Come up to me and help me. And we shall strike Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua, and with the sons of Israel. 5 And the five kings of the Amorites assembled, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, they and all their camps. And they camped against Gibeon, and fought against it. 6 And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua, and to the camp at Gilgal, saying, Do not withdraw your hand from your servants. Come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites living in the hills have gathered againstus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and help: Isaiah 8:9, Isaiah 8:10, Isaiah 41:5-7, Acts 9:24-27, Acts 21:28, Revelation 16:14, Revelation 20:8-10

we may: Joshua 10:1, Joshua 9:15, Matthew 16:24, John 15:19, John 16:2, John 16:3, Acts 9:23, 2 Timothy 3:12, James 4:4, 1 Peter 4:4

Reciprocal: Joshua 11:1 - he sent 2 Samuel 2:12 - Gibeon Psalms 119:94 - I am thine

Cross-References

Numbers 24:24
And ships shall come from the coast of Cyprus, and they shall humble Assyria, and they shall humble Eber, and he also shall come to destruction forever.
Isaiah 23:1
The burden of Tyre: Howl, ships of Tarshish! For it is ruined, without house, without entrance. It is revealed to them from the land of Kittim.
Isaiah 23:12
And He said, You shall rejoice no more, oppressed one, virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, cross over to Cyprus, even there is no rest to you.
Ezekiel 27:12
Tarshish was your trader from the multitude of your wealth. With silver, iron, tin, and lead, they gave for your wares.
Ezekiel 27:25
The ships of Tarshish were the travelers of your goods. And you were filled and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.
Daniel 11:30
For the Kittim ships will come against him. And he will be pained and turn back and be furious against the holy covenant. And he will act, and he will return and heed the forsakers of the holy covenant.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon,.... For which he thought himself not a match, not only because it was a great city, and full of mighty men, and had other cities subject to it, but because he might reasonably judge that Joshua would come to their assistance if possible, being in league with him; he sends to these kings in an authoritative manner, as if they were in some respects subject to him; and he proposes Jerusalem as the place of their rendezvous, and which it seems lay higher than their cities, though they were in the mountainous part of the country:

for it hath made peace with Joshua, and with the children of Israel; their avowed enemies, and so had separated themselves from their countrymen, and from their common interest; and therefore it was thought proper to make an example of them, that others might fear to do the same.


 
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