OLD TESTAMENT

Joshua 10:2

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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.

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Verse 2. Cities. Yet we read not of its king. Calmet. 9:11. Calmet.—Septuagint “It was like a royal metropolis.” Bible.—Valiant. Prudence therefore, and not fear, had influenced them to take this step.

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