THEOSISJoshua 10:2Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
He was exceedingly afraid. For Gabaon was a great city, and one of the royal cities, and greater than the town of Hai, and all its fighting men were most valiant.
וַיִּֽירְא֣וּ מְאֹ֔ד כִּ֣י עִ֤יר גְּדוֹלָה֙ גִּבְע֔וֹן כְּאַחַ֖ת עָרֵ֣י הַמַּמְלָכָ֑ה וְכִ֨י הִ֤יא גְדוֹלָה֙ מִן־הָעַ֔י וְכָל־אֲנָשֶׁ֖יהָ גִּבֹּרִֽים׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Deut 11:25None shall stand against you: the Lord your God shall lay the dread and fear of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as he hath spoken to you.
- Josh 2:24And said: the Lord hath delivered all this land into our hands, and all the inhabitants thereof are overthrown with fear.
- Ex 15:14Nations rose up, and were angry: sorrows took hold on the inhabitants of Philisthiim.
- Ex 15:16Let fear and dread fall upon them, in the greatness of thy arm: let them become immoveable as a stone, until thy people, O Lord, pass by: until this thy people pass by, which thou hast possessed.
- Ps 48 (47):4
- Ps 48 (47):6
- Prov 1:26I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.
- Prov 1:27When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you: