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New Century Version

Joshua 10:4

"Come with me and help me attack Gibeon, which has made a peace agreement with Joshua and the Israelites."

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 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."
Literal Translation
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.
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 At this time Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had defeated Ai and completely destroyed it, as he had also done to Jericho and its king. The king also learned that the Gibeonites had made a peace agreement with Israel and that they lived nearby. 2 Adoni-Zedek and his people were very afraid because of this. Gibeon was not a little town like Ai; it was a large city, as big as a city that had a king, and all its men were good fighters. 3 So Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent a message to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon. He begged them, 4 "Come with me and help me attack Gibeon, which has made a peace agreement with Joshua and the Israelites." 5 Then these five Amorite kings—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon—gathered their armies, went to Gibeon, surrounded it, and attacked it. 6 The Gibeonites sent this message to Joshua in his camp at Gilgal: "Don't let us, your servants, be destroyed. Come quickly and help us! Save us! All the Amorite kings from the mountains have joined their armies and are fighting against us."

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
Ships will sail from the shores of Cyprus and defeat Assyria and Eber, but they will also be destroyed."
Isaiah 23:1
This is a message about Tyre: You trading ships, cry! The houses and harbor of Tyre are destroyed. This news came to the ships from the land of Cyprus.
Isaiah 23:12
He said, "Sidon, you will not rejoice any longer, because you are destroyed. Even if you cross the sea to Cyprus, you will not find a place to rest."
Ezekiel 27:12
"‘People of Tarshish became traders for you because of your great wealth. They traded your goods for silver, iron, tin, and lead.
Ezekiel 27:25
"‘Trading ships carried the things you sold. You were like a ship full of heavy cargo in the middle of the sea.
Daniel 11:30
Ships from the west will come and fight against the king of the North, so he will be afraid. Then he will return and show his anger against the holy agreement. He will be good to those who have stopped obeying the holy agreement.

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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