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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 9:14-21

14-21 The Israelites, having examined the provisions of the Gibeonites, hastily concluded that they confirmed their account. We make more haste than good speed, when we stay not to take God with us, and do not consult him by the word and prayer. The fraud was soon found out. A lying tongue is but for a moment. Had the oath been in itself unlawful, it would not have been binding; for no obligation can render it our duty to commit a sin. But it was not unlawful to spare the Canaanites who... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Joshua 9:16-27

The Deception Discovered and Punished. v. 16. And it came to pass at the end of three days, after they had made a league with them, that they, the Israelites, heard that they, the Gibeonites, were their neighbors, and that they dwelt among them, almost in the center of Canaan. v. 17. And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now, their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim, the location of all of which is pretty... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Joshua 9:1-27

b. Contests Against the Allied Kings of the CanaanitesJoshua 9-111. The first League of Canaanite Kings against IsraelJoshua 9:1-21And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side [on the other side of the] Jordan, in the hills [on the mountain], and in the valleys [the low land], and in all the coasts [on all the coast] of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof; 2That they... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Joshua 9:16-27

“Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water” Joshua 9:16-27 The faith of these people was so far rewarded that, while their deception was punished by their reduction to the most menial tasks, yet their lives were spared; and, to a certain degree, they were incorporated with Israel and associated with the service of God’s house. This position made them as unlikely as possible to seduce Israel from loyalty to Jehovah. The Gibeonites were afterward known as Nethinim-that is, given. See 1 Chronicles... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Joshua 9:1-27

The fame and the dread of the people by this time were spreading far and wide. The kings of Canaan, conscious of their danger, formed a league against the oncoming hosts. However, before they had time to take action, a new peril threatened Israel through the strategy of the Gibeonites. The first mistake made by the princes of Israel in this matter was that they acted alone in receiving the messengers instead of remitting what was a new set of circumstances to God for counsel and guidance. ... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 9:19-20

‘ But all the princes said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by YHWH, the God of Israel. Now therefore we may not touch them. This we will do to them and let them live, lest wrath be on us because of the oath which we have sworn to them.’ The princes explained their reasons. A solemn oath had been sworn, a solemn covenant made. Therefore it had to be kept otherwise the wrath of God would come on Israel (see 2 Samuel 21:1-9). They were inviolate. They could not be touched. “This... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 9:1-27

Joshua 9. The Stratagem of the Gibeonites.— This account, though composite, is straightforward enough if Joshua 9:17-Ecclesiastes : be omitted. These verses give an account by the priestly writer in which the princes of the congregation” take the leading part, and make a treaty which immediately afterwards is made again by Joshua Joshua 9:22 is plainly the continuation of Joshua 9:16. That a treaty was made with the Gibeonites at an early date is a historical fact, but that treaty was very... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Joshua 9:16-27

CRITICAL NOTES.—Joshua 9:17. On the third day] That is the same as “at the end of three days” in Joshua 9:16. “The armed men would move from Gilgal to Gibeon (about twelve miles) in the same day on which the news was heard” (Crosby). Keil, with more apparent accuracy, reckons Gibeon as eighteen or twenty miles from Gilgal, and supposes the phrase, “the third day,” to mean on the third day after the discovery of the stratagem. He adds: the third day “is not to be interpreted as meaning that... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Joshua 9:1-27

This time shall we turn to the book of Joshua, chapter nine as we begin our study this evening.Now the children of Israel had conquered Jericho and Ai, which were strong cities. The kings that were in the land of Canaan where they were coming, felt that their only hope of stopping this migration of these people into the land would be by a combined effort, pooling all of their armies, all of their resources in one massive assault against Israel. Now this strategy was really prompted by the fact... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 9:1-27

Joshua 9:1-2 . All the kings to fight with Joshua. They realized the ancient proverb, Quem Deus vult perdere, primum dementat. He whom God destroys is first mad. Joshua 9:4 . Wine bottles, old and rent, and bound up. Bruce, our Abyssinian traveller, calls these girbashes. They are made of strong leather, and so sewed as not to ooze. Glass was not discovered till fifty years before the christian era. With regard to the moral character of this mission, the remark of our Saviour... read more