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Joshua 9:1-3
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The Deception by Gibeon

9 When all the kings who were west of the Jordan in the hill country,[a] in the Shephelah,[b] and along the entire coast of the Mediterranean Sea[c] as far as Lebanon (the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites) heard what had happened, 2 they gathered together with one purpose: to wage war against Joshua and Israel.

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

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 9:1 Or highlands. The word traditionally translated hill country is the same Hebrew word that means mountain. But in many cases, as it does here, it refers to highland regions, not to a mountain peak. This translation retains the traditional rendering hill country for the highland regions of Israel.
  2. Joshua 9:1 The Shephelah is the region of foothills west of the central mountain range of Israel.
  3. Joshua 9:1 Hebrew Great Sea
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