Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Joshua 10:6 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 6. 6And 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.
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Quick Meaning
Joshua 10:6 contributes this concrete line to the movement: “And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand…”.
Gibeon calls in the treaty, and Israel marches all night
This verse is one part of that explanation in Joshua 10:6-11. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- Joshua 10:6–11
Read Joshua 10:6 with 10:6–11. Joshua 10:6 advances “Israel Honors the Treaty and Rescues Gibeon” with the textual step “And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand…”. The complete unit establishes this movement: Gibeon appeals to its new partners, Joshua marches overnight after divine reassurance, surprises the coalition, and the narrative attributes greater killing to extraordinary hailstones than to Israel's sword.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Joshua 10:1-5 ends with this movement: Five armies besiege Gibeon. Joshua 10:6-11 begins with this next step: Gibeon invokes the treaty and asks for urgent rescue. It reaches this outcome: Surprise, pursuit, and hail rout the attackers. This movement materially develops the book's concern with treaty obligation, rescue, divine-war language, hail, casualties, and disaster attribution. At Joshua 10:6, this verse contributes the following distinct step: Joshua 10:6 advances “Israel Honors the Treaty and Rescues Gibeon” with the textual step “And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand…”.
What Remains True
Joshua 10:6 contributes this bounded enduring truth: Ambiguous actions and survival strategies require inquiry, evidence, kept commitments, and restraint before irreversible judgment.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Joshua 10:6-11 — Israel Honors the Treaty and Rescues GibeonSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Joshua 10:6-11, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Joshua
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, clauses, names, repeated roots, boundary formulas, covenant terms, and the base text behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Josh.xml, 10:6–11
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Joshua with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level Hebrew, textual, translation, list, number, geographical, historical, and cross-reference notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Joshua PDF, printed pp. 432-434, translation and translator notes on 10:6–11
Open source ↗scholarly commentary article
Joshua
Richard D. Nelson
Oxford University Press, in The Oxford Bible Commentary, edited by John Barton and John Muddiman, 2001
Supports: Whole-book movement, literary boundaries, composition, history and archaeology limits, geography, theology, and material interpretive alternatives.
Exact location: Nelson, 'Joshua,' Oxford Bible Commentary, printed pp. 166-167, discussion of 10:6–11
Open source ↗