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Joshua 10:6
Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal: “Do not abandon your servants. Come quickly and save us! Help us, because all the kings of the Amorites from the hill country have joined forces against us.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The men of Gibeon send messengers to Joshua at his camp in Gilgal. They deliver this request immediately after the five kings of the Amorites camped before Gibeon and made war against it.
The words — וַ/יִּשְלְחוּ (va/i.yish.le.Chu) literally means "and they sent," marking the dispatch of the diplomatic appeal. אַנְשֵׁי־גִבְעוֹן ('an.Shei giv.'on) identifies the speakers as "the men of Gibeon."
The thread — The Gilgal camp functions as the Israelite assembly point in Joshua 5:10 and Joshua 9:6, while the delegation structure mirrors the leadership appointment in Deuteronomy 1:15.
Why it lands — The text records an explicit plea for military rescue from a city under attack by a five-king coalition. It requires the reader to note the tactical urgency and the direct command to intervene without delay.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.
Cross-references
- Joshua 5:10 On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.
- Joshua 9:6 They went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land; please make a treaty with us.”
- Deuteronomy 1:15 So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them as leaders over you—as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, and as officers for your tribes.
- Joshua 9:15 And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.
- Joshua 9:24 The Gibeonites answered, “Your servants were told clearly that the LORD your God had commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land and wipe out all its inhabitants before you. So we greatly feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we have done this.
- Joshua 21:11 They gave them Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), with its surrounding pasturelands, in the hill country of Judah. (Arba was the father of Anak.)
- 2 Kings 4:24 Then she saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Drive onward; do not slow the pace for me unless I tell you.”
- Psalms 125:2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people, both now and forevermore.
- Isaiah 33:22 For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.
- Luke 1:39 In those days Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judah,