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.
Come up and help me attack Gibeon, because they have made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.
The king of Jerusalem is calling for military allies to help him attack Gibeon because they chose to make peace with Israel instead of fighting them.
📚 Historical Context
In the Book of Joshua, the Israelites were conquering the Promised Land as part of God's command to take possession of Canaan. The Gibeonites, a local people group, had recently deceived the Israelites into a peace treaty by pretending to come from a distant land, which violated the Israelites' obligation to destroy the inhabitants. This alliance alarmed the surrounding kings, who saw it as a threat and decided to unite against Gibeon to eliminate it.
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