1. Now when all the kings who were west of the Jordan, in the hill country, in the lowland and along the shore of the Great Sea to the vicinity of Lebanon—the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites—heard about it,
2. they gathered themselves together as a unified alliance to fight against Joshua and Israel.
3. But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,