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Joshua 9:2

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Alliances;   Hittites;   Joshua;   Thompson Chain Reference - Alliances;   Evil;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Palestine;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - All-Sufficiency of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Alliances;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joshua, the Book of;   Perizzites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gibeon;   Israel;   Stranger;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Accord;   Joshua, Book of;   Libraries;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
they formed a unified alliance to fight against Joshua and Israel.
Hebrew Names Version
that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Yehoshua and with Yisra'el, with one accord.
King James Version
That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
Lexham English Bible
they gathered themselves together to fight with one accord against Joshua and Israel.
English Standard Version
they gathered together as one to fight against Joshua and Israel.
New Century Version
So all these kings gathered to fight Joshua and the Israelites.
New English Translation
they formed an alliance to fight against Joshua and Israel.
Amplified Bible
they gathered together with one purpose to fight with Joshua and with Israel.
New American Standard Bible
that they met together with one purpose, to fight with Joshua and with Israel.
Geneva Bible (1587)
They gathered themselues together, to fight against Ioshua, & against Israel with one accord.
Legacy Standard Bible
that they gathered themselves together with one accord to fight with Joshua and with Israel.
Complete Jewish Bible
they joined forces to fight together against Y'hoshua and Isra'el.
Darby Translation
that they assembled together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
Easy-to-Read Version
All these kings came together and made plans to fight against Joshua and the Israelites.
George Lamsa Translation
And they gathered themselves together, with one accord, to fight with Joshua and with Israel.
Good News Translation
They all came together and joined forces to fight against Joshua and the Israelites.
Literal Translation
they with one mouth gathered themselves to fight with Joshua and with Israel.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
they gathered the selues together with one acorde, to fighte agaynst Iosua, and agaynst Israel.
American Standard Version
that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
Bible in Basic English
Came together with one purpose, to make war against Joshua and Israel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
They gathered them selues together, to fyght against Iosuah, and against Israel, with one accorde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
King James Version (1611)
That they gathered themselues together to fight with Ioshua, and with Israel, with one accord.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
they came all together at the same time to make war against Joshua and Israel.
English Revised Version
that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
Berean Standard Bible
they came together to wage war against Joshua and Israel.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
weren gaderid togidere to fiyte ayens Josue and Israel, with o wille, and the same sentence.
Young's Literal Translation
that they gather themselves together to fight with Joshua, and with Israel -- one mouth.
Update Bible Version
that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
Webster's Bible Translation
That they assembled themselves, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
World English Bible
that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
New King James Version
that they gathered together to fight with Joshua and Israel with one accord.
New Living Translation
These kings combined their armies to fight as one against Joshua and the Israelites.
New Life Bible
They gathered together as one to fight against Joshua and Israel.
New Revised Standard
they gathered together with one accord to fight Joshua and Israel.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
then gathered they themselves together as one man, to fight with Joshua, and with Israel, - with one accord.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Gathered themselves together, to fight against Josue and Israel with one mind, and one resolution.
Revised Standard Version
they gathered together with one accord to fight Joshua and Israel.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
that they gathered themselves together with one accord to fight with Joshua and with Israel.

Contextual Overview

1All the kings west of the Jordan in the hills and foothills and along the Mediterranean seacoast north toward Lebanon—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, Girgashites, and Jebusites—got the news. They came together in a coalition to fight against Joshua and Israel under a single command.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

gathered: 2 Chronicles 20:1-30, Psalms 2:1, Psalms 2:2, Psalms 83:2-8, Proverbs 11:21, Isaiah 8:9, Isaiah 8:10, Isaiah 8:12, Isaiah 54:15, Joel 3:9-13, Acts 4:26-28, Revelation 16:14, Revelation 20:8, Revelation 20:9

accord: Heb. mouth

Reciprocal: Joshua 10:5 - General 2 Chronicles 18:12 - assent

Cross-References

Genesis 9:8
Then God spoke to Noah and his sons: "I'm setting up my covenant with you including your children who will come after you, along with everything alive around you—birds, farm animals, wild animals—that came out of the ship with you. I'm setting up my covenant with you that never again will everything living be destroyed by floodwaters; no, never again will a flood destroy the Earth."
Genesis 9:20
Noah, a farmer, was the first to plant a vineyard. He drank from its wine, got drunk and passed out, naked in his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and told his two brothers who were outside the tent. Shem and Japheth took a cloak, held it between them from their shoulders, walked backward and covered their father's nakedness, keeping their faces turned away so they did not see their father's exposed body.
Leviticus 26:6
"I'll make the country a place of peace—you'll be able to go to sleep at night without fear; I'll get rid of the wild beasts; I'll eliminate war. You'll chase out your enemies and defeat them: Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand and do away with them. I'll give you my full attention: I'll make sure you prosper, make sure you grow in numbers, and keep my covenant with you in good working order. You'll still be eating from last year's harvest when you have to clean out the barns to make room for the new crops.
Ezekiel 34:25
"‘I'll make a covenant of peace with them. I'll banish fierce animals from the country so the sheep can live safely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest. I'll make them and everything around my hill a blessing. I'll send down plenty of rain in season—showers of blessing! The trees in the orchards will bear fruit, the ground will produce, they'll feel content and safe on their land, and they'll realize that I am God when I break them out of their slavery and rescue them from their slave masters.
James 3:7
This is scary: You can tame a tiger, but you can't tame a tongue—it's never been done. The tongue runs wild, a wanton killer. With our tongues we bless God our Father; with the same tongues we curse the very men and women he made in his image. Curses and blessings out of the same mouth! My friends, this can't go on. A spring doesn't gush fresh water one day and brackish the next, does it? Apple trees don't bear strawberries, do they? Raspberry bushes don't bear apples, do they? You're not going to dip into a polluted mud hole and get a cup of clear, cool water, are you? Do you want to be counted wise, to build a reputation for wisdom? Here's what you do: Live well, live wisely, live humbly. It's the way you live, not the way you talk, that counts. Mean-spirited ambition isn't wisdom. Boasting that you are wise isn't wisdom. Twisting the truth to make yourselves sound wise isn't wisdom. It's the furthest thing from wisdom—it's animal cunning, devilish conniving. Whenever you're trying to look better than others or get the better of others, things fall apart and everyone ends up at the others' throats. Real wisdom, God's wisdom, begins with a holy life and is characterized by getting along with others. It is gentle and reasonable, overflowing with mercy and blessings, not hot one day and cold the next, not two-faced. You can develop a healthy, robust community that lives right with God and enjoy its results only if you do the hard work of getting along with each other, treating each other with dignity and honor.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua,

and with Israel,.... Not at this time, but they met together to consult what was proper to be done in order to secure themselves, and their people, and put a stop to the successes of the arms of Israel; and for this purpose entered into alliances with each other to assist one another, or at a convenient time and place to join their forces together, and attack Israel, as afterwards they did, Joshua 11:1; and this they did

with one accord; were unanimous in their councils and resolutions; they all confederated together, and agreed as one man to make a common cause of it, and oppose Israel with their united forces.

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.


 
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