Josua 9:1

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all the kings: Joshua 10:2-5, Joshua 10:23, Joshua 10:28-39, Joshua 11:1-5, Joshua 11:10, Joshua 11:11, Joshua 12:7-24

on this: Joshua 1:15, Joshua 3:17, Joshua 5:1, Joshua 22:4, Joshua 22:7, Deuteronomy 4:49

of the great: Joshua 1:4, Joshua 15:12, Joshua 23:4, Numbers 34:6

Lebanon: Joshua 11:17, Joshua 12:7, Joshua 13:5, Deuteronomy 3:25

Hittite: Joshua 24:11, Genesis 15:18-21, Exodus 3:17, Exodus 23:23, Exodus 23:31, Exodus 34:11, Deuteronomy 7:1

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:8 - Canaanites Deuteronomy 1:1 - on this Joshua 6:27 - his fame Joshua 10:5 - General Joshua 11:16 - hills Joshua 12:8 - the Hittites Judges 3:5 - Canaanites 1 Chronicles 1:13 - Heth Nehemiah 9:8 - the Canaanites

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass, when all the kings which [were] on this side Jordan,.... On the side Israel now were, and was that in which the land of Canaan lay, and was now governed by many kings, and all that were now remaining, even all but the kings of Jericho and Ai, who were slain: both those

in the hills, and in the valleys; that dwelt in the mountainous part of the country, and in the plains of it:

and in all the coasts of the great sea, over against Lebanon; who inhabited and governed in that part of the country which lay on the coast of the Mediterranean sea, the country of Phoenicia, in which were Tyre, Sidon, and other cities, and were over against Mount Lebanon, which was on the northern part of the country; according to the Latin version, they dwelt near Lebanon; and according to the Septuagint, near Antilibanus. It seems best, with Noldius g, to render the words, "even unto Lebanon", for it designs all the sea coasts reaching to it; for all the maritime coasts did not lie over against it:

the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard [thereof]; what they heard is not said, but to be understood; particularly they heard what had been done by Joshua, and the people of Israel, to Jericho and Ai: and their kings, Joshua 9:3. Some think, as Abarbinel, that they had heard of the altar Joshua had made, and of the stones he had set up, and of his reading the law to the people, by which they were to be governed; all which they understood as taking possession of the country, and looking upon it as conquered, and obliging his people to swear fealty to him. All the nations of Canaan are mentioned but the Gergasites; which, according to the Jewish writers, are omitted, because they were but few; the Septuagint version has them in some copies.

g Concord. Ebr. Part. p. 80. No. 370.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the hills - See the Numbers 13:17 note.

The valleys - Or “the vale” (the Shephelah, Deuteronomy 1:7), which imports the lowland country between the mountains and the sea coast.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER IX

All the kings of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites,

Hivites, and Jebusites, unite them forces against Joshua, 1, 2.

The inhabitants of Gibeon, hearing what Joshua had done to Ai,

sent ambassadors to him, feigning themselves to come from a

very distant tribe, requesting a friendly alliance with him,

3-5.

Their address to Joshua, and the means they used to deceive the

Israelites, 6-13.

The Israelitish elders are deceived, and make a league with

them, which they confirm with an oath, 14, 15.

After three day they are informed that the Gibeonites belong to

the seven Canaanitish nations, yet they spare their cities,

16, 17.

The congregation murmuring because of this, the elders excuse

themselves because of their oath, 18, 19.

They purpose to make the Gibeonites slaves to the congregation,

20, 21.

Joshua calls them, and pronounces this sentence against them,

22, 23.

They vindicate themselves, and submit to their lot, 24, 25.

They are spared, and made hewers of wood and drawers of water to

the congregation and to the altar, 26, 27.

NOTES ON CHAP. IX

Verse Joshua 9:1. And it came to pass, when all the kings-heard thereof — From this account it appears that the capture and destruction of Jericho and Ai had been heard of to the remotest parts of the land, that a general fear of the Israelitish arms prevailed, and that the different dynasties or petty governments into which the land was divided, felt all their interests at stake, and determined to make the defence of their country a common cause. This was the most prudent step they could take in their circumstances, and therefore they entered into a confederation in order to arrest the progress of the Israelites. The Great Sea mentioned here is the Mediterranean Sea, the coasts of which were inhabited by the Phoenicians, Syrians, Sidonians, and Philistines. It is very likely that all these united with the Canaanites for their common safety.