Gibeonites

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Joshua 9:3 OT

  But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

• Joshua 9:7 OT

  The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “What if you live among us? How could we make a covenant with you?”

• 2 Samuel 21:2 OT

  The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the…

• Joshua 10:2 OT

  they were very afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

• Joshua 9:17 OT

  The children of Israel traveled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

• Joshua 9:4-13 OT

  they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wine skins, and old and patched sandals on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread…

• Joshua 9:15 OT

  Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.

• Joshua 9:18 OT

  The children of Israel didn’t strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.

• Joshua 9:19 OT

  But all the princes said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. Now therefore we may not touch them.

• Joshua 9:20-27 OT

  We will do this to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.” The princes said to them, “Let them live.” So they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the…

• Joshua 10:1-5 OT

  Now when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel,…

• Joshua 10:6-10 OT

  The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Don’t abandon your servants! Come up to us quickly and save us! Help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country have gathered together against us.”…

• 2 Samuel 21:1 OT

  There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

• 2 Samuel 21:4-9 OT

  The Gibeonites said to him, “It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.” He said, “I will do for you whatever you say.” They said to the king, “The man who…

• 1 Chronicles 9:2 OT

  Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.

• Nehemiah 7:25 OT

  The children of Gibeon: ninety-five.