1. WHEN ALL the kings beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland and all along the coast of the Great [Mediterranean] Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites heard this,
2. They gathered together with one accord to fight Joshua and Israel.
3. But when the people of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,