The Battle of Gibeon

12 Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

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“Come up to me and help me, and let us strike Gibeon. For (A)it has made peace with Joshua and with the people of Israel.”

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(A)he[a] feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were warriors.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 10:2 One Hebrew manuscript, Vulgate (compare Syriac); most Hebrew manuscripts they

But when the inhabitants of (A)Gibeon heard what Joshua had done (B)to Jericho and (C)to Ai,

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14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” (A)For the Lord had ordained[a] to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring harm upon Absalom.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 17:14 Hebrew commanded

12 At that time Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel,

(A)“Sun, stand still at Gibeon,
    and moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.”

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And when Jacob saw them he said, “This is God's (A)camp!” So he called the name of that place (B)Mahanaim.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 32:2 Mahanaim means two camps

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