- 耶路撒冷王亞多尼洗德聽見約書亞奪了艾城、盡行毀滅.怎樣待耶利哥和耶利哥的王、也照樣待艾城和艾城的王.又聽見基遍的居民與以色列人立了和約、住在他們中間.
- 就甚懼怕、因為基遍是一座大城、如都城一般、比艾城更大、並且城內的人都是勇士。
- 所以耶路撒冷王亞多尼洗德打發人去見希伯崙王何咸、耶末王毘蘭、拉吉王雅非亞、和伊磯倫王底璧、說、
- 求你們上來幫助我、我們好攻打基遍.因為他們與約書亞和以色列人立了和約。
- 於是五個亞摩利王、就是耶路撒冷王、希伯崙王、耶末王、拉吉王、伊磯倫王、大家聚集、率領他們的眾軍上去、對著基遍安營、攻打基遍。
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- Now it came to pass, when Adonizedec king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;
- 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.
- Wherefore Adonizedec king of Jerusalem, sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,
- Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
- Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it.
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