Joshua 9 · Verse 17

Joshua 9:17

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.
Joshua 9:17, King James Version

Joshua 9:17 in other translations

BSBSo the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities—Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
WEBThe children of Israel traveled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.
ASVAnd the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
YLTAnd the sons of Israel journey and come in unto their cities on the third day--and their cities are Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-Jearim--
DARBYAnd the children of Israel journeyed, and came to their cities on the third day; and their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim.
BBEAnd the children of Israel went forward on their journey, and on the third day came to their towns. Now their towns were Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kiriath-jearim.
WebsterAnd the children of Israel journeyed, and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim.

What does Joshua 9:17 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joshua 9:16-17

16-17. at the end of three days ... they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them--This information was obtained in their further progress through the country; for as Jos 9:17 should be rendered, "when the children of Israel journeyed, they came to their cities." Gibeon was about eighteen or twenty miles from Gilgal.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 17 The children of Israel - came unto their cities - Probably when the fraud was discovered, Joshua sent out a detachment to examine their country, and to see what use could be made of it in the prosecution of their war with the Canaanites. Some of the cities mentioned here were afterwards in great repute among the Israelites: and God chose to make one of them, Kirjath-jearim, the residence of the ark of the covenant for twenty years, in the reigns of Saul and David. There is no evidence that the preservation of the Gibeonites was displeasing to Jehovah.

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

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…

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Joshua 9:17 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיִּסְע֣וּvai.yis.'Uand they set outH5265
בְנֵֽי\־ve.nei-[the] people ofH1121
יִשְׂרָאֵ֗לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
וַיָּבֹ֛אוּvai.ya.Vo.'uand they cameH935
אֶל\־'el-toH413
עָרֵיהֶ֖ם'a.rei.Hemcities theirH5892
בַּיּ֣וֹםbai.Yomon the dayH3117
הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֑יha.she.li.Shi<the> thirdH7992
וְעָרֵיהֶם֙ve.'a.rei.Hemand cities theirH5892
גִּבְע֣וֹןgiv.'on[were] GibeonH1391
וְהַכְּפִירָ֔הve.ha.ke.fi.Rahand <the> KephirahH3716
וּבְאֵר֖וֹתu.ve.'e.Rotand BeerothH881
וְקִרְיַ֥תve.kir.Yatand KiriathH7157
יְעָרִֽים\׃ye.'a.RimJearimH7157

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Cross references for Joshua 9:17

  • Ezra 2:25

    The children of Kirjath–arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.

  • Joshua 18:25-28

    Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth, And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah, And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah, And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.

  • 1 Chronicles 13:5-6

    So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjath–jearim. And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjath–jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the Lord, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it.

  • Nehemiah 7:29

    The men of Kirjath–jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three.

  • 2 Chronicles 1:3-4

    So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness. But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjath–jearim to the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chronicles 21:29

    For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.

  • Joshua 15:9

    And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjath–jearim:

  • 1 Samuel 7:1

    And the men of Kirjath–jearim came, and fetched up the ark of the Lord, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the Lord.

  • Joshua 15:60

    Kirjath–baal, which is Kirjath–jearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages:

  • Joshua 18:14

    And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Beth–horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjath–baal, which is Kirjath–jearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.

  • Joshua 10:2

    That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Gibeon.
10:2; 18:25-28; 1Ch 21:29; 2Ch 1:3; Ezr 2:25; Ne 7:29
Kirjath-jearim.
15:9,60; 18:14; 1Sa 7:1; 1Ch 13:5,6; 2Ch 1:4

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Context

  • Joshua 9:16

    And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.

  • Joshua 9:17

    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.

  • Joshua 9:18

    And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.

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Joshua 9:17 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y partiéronse los hijos de Israel, y al tercer día llegaron á sus ciudades: y sus ciudades eran Gabaón, Caphira, Beeroth, y Chiriath-jearim.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et les fils d’Israël partirent, et vinrent à leurs villes, le troisième jour. Et leurs villes étaient Gabaon, et Kephira, et Beéroth, et Kiriath-Jéarim.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Da brachen die Kinder Israel auf und kamen zu ihren Städten am dritten Tage; und ihre Städte waren Gibeon und Kephira und Beeroth und Kirjath-Jearim.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Moveruntque castra filii Israël, et venerunt in civitates eorum die tertio, quarum hæc vocabula sunt: Gabaon, et Caphira, et Beroth, et Cariathiarim.