Joshua 10:2

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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 of it were mighty.

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Gibeon was a major Canaanite city in the central hill country, near Jerusalem; its treaty with Israel alarmed Jerusalem’s king because it gave Israel a strategic foothold. The other places mark the surrounding Canaanite regions and cities involved in Joshua’s southern campaign, showing the wider political threat to Israel’s advance.

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Joshua 10:2 mentions Ai, Azekah, Beth-horon, Debir, Eglon, Gaza, Gezer, Gibeon, Gilgal, Hebron, Jarmuth, Jericho, Jerusalem, Kadesh-barnea, Lachish, Negeb, Shephelah and Valley of Aijalon.