Yosua 9:17

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Sebab orang Israel berangkat pergi dan pada hari ketiga sampai ke kota-kota orang-orang itu; adapun kota-kota itu ialah Gibeon, Kefira, Beerot dan Kiryat-Yearim.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sebab orang Israel berangkat pergi dan pada hari ketiga sampai ke kota-kota orang-orang itu; adapun kota-kota itu ialah Gibeon, Kefira, Beerot dan Kiryat-Yearim.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Karena bani Israel telah berangkat, lalu pada hari yang ketiga sudah sampai kepada negeri-negerinya; adapun negeri mereka itu yaitulah Gibeon dan Khefira dan Bairut dan Kiryat-Yearim.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ And Iosuah made peace which the, and made a couenaunt with them, that they shulde be suffered to liue: And the princes of the congregation sware vnto them. ¹⁶ But at the ende of three dayes, after they had made a league with them, they hearde that they were their neighbours, & that they dwelt among them. ¹⁷ And the children of Israel toke their iorney, and came vnto their cities the thirde day: and their cities were Gibeon, and Caphira, Beroth, and Kiriathiarim. ¹⁸ And the children of Israel slue them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworne vnto them by the Lord God of Israel: and all the multitude mourned agaynst the princes. ¹⁹ But all the princes sayde vnto all the congregation: We haue sworne vnto them by the Lorde God of Israel, and therfore we may not hurt them. ²⁰ But this we wyll do to them, We wyll let them liue, lest wrath be vpon vs because of the othe which we sware vnto them. ²¹ And the princes said vnto them againe, Let them liue, and hewe wood, & drawe water vnto all the congregation, [and they dyd] as the princes sayde vnto them.

Bible Verse Review
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Gibeon: Joshua 10:2, Joshua 18:25-28, 1 Chronicles 21:29, 2 Chronicles 1:3, Ezra 2:25, Nehemiah 7:29

Kirjathjearim: Joshua 15:9, Joshua 15:60, Joshua 18:14, 1 Samuel 7:1, 1 Chronicles 13:5, 1 Chronicles 13:6, 2 Chronicles 1:4

Reciprocal: Joshua 9:3 - Gibeon Joshua 18:26 - Chephirah 2 Samuel 4:2 - Beeroth 1 Chronicles 12:4 - Gibeonite

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the children of Israel journeyed,.... Not the whole camp, for that still remained at Gilgal, and continued there until the Gibeonites in distress sent to them for assistance in virtue of the league, as appears from the following chapter; but a party of them, who were sent along with some of the princes, to know the truth whether the Gibeonites were their neighbours or not, as had been reported to them:

and came unto their cities on the third day; not on the third day from their setting out on their journey, for it was but one night's march from Gilgal to them, Joshua 10:9; but on the third day from the making of the league; it is very probable it was early on the third day they heard of their being their neighbours, upon which a party was sent out at once to know the truth of it, who arrived thither the same day:

now their cities [were] Gibeon and Chephirah, and Beeroth and Kirjathjearim; Gibeon was the metropolis, and the other three were subject to it; the three first fell to the lot of Benjamin, and the last to the tribe of Judah; we shall meet with them again in the lots of the several tribes, in Joshua 15:60.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Chephirah (Kefir) is situated eight or nine miles west of Gibeon, and was an inhabited city in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah Ezra 2:25; Nehemiah 7:29.

Beeroth (Birch), about eight miles north of Jerusalem. Kirjath-jearim, i. e. “city of woods,” is identified by Robinson with the modern Kuriet el Enab, nine miles from Jerusalem on the road to Jaffa (and by Conder with Soba). The town was numbered among those belonging to Judah, and was in the northern boundary of that tribe. Beyond this city the six hundred Danites encamped on their famous expedition to Laish Judges 18:12. Kirjath-jearim was also, and probably before the Israelite conquests exclusively, called Baalah and Kirjath-baal Joshua 15:9, Joshua 15:60, names which seem to point to its early sanctity as a special seat of Baal-worship. To this place also the ark was brought from Beth-shemesh after it was sent back by the Philistines, and here it remained for twenty years 1 Samuel 6:20-21; 1 Samuel 7:2. It was fetched thence by David and deposited in the house of Obed-edom 2 Samuel 6:2. Hence, the allusion, Psalms 132:6, where David is said to have found the ark “in the fields of the wood.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 9:17. The children of Israel - came unto their cities — Probably when the fraud was discovered, Joshua sent out a detachment to examine their country, and to see what use could be made of it in the prosecution of their war with the Canaanites. Some of the cities mentioned here were afterwards in great repute among the Israelites: and God chose to make one of them, Kirjath-jearim, the residence of the ark of the covenant for twenty years, in the reigns of Saul and David. There is no evidence that the preservation of the Gibeonites was displeasing to Jehovah.