Joshua 10:2 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 thereof were mighty. Torrey's Topical Textbook
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The Hebrews and the Philistines --Damascus ... of their far-off origin, and that warlike temperament which ... on every occasion of national danger.* The people of Ephraim ... us out of the hand of these mighty gods ... /.../chapter iiithe hebrews and the.htm
A Traveler's Note-Book ... Judah and Israel into hopeless conflicts with their mighty neighbors ... Very short was the period of Israel's warlike glory, and ... Take the story of the Gibeonites. ... /.../merriam/the chief end of man/iii a travelers note-book.htm