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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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Cities. Yet we read not of its king, chap. ix. 11. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "It was like a royal metropolis. "(Haydock)
Valiant. Prudence therefore, and not fear, had influenced them to take this step.
