King James Version
Joshua 10:4 in the King James Version says “Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Isra...” — study this verse from Joshua chapter 10 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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.”
Joshua 10:4 · KJV
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. royal: Heb. cities of the kingdom
Wherefore Adonizedek 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.
And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Come up”
H5927to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
“me that we may smite”
H5221to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“for it hath made peace”
H7999to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate
properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc
properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc
“and with the children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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