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Joshua 10:2
King James Version (1769 Blayney revision, with Apocrypha) · Berean Standard Bible
That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities (note: Heb. cities of the kingdom), and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.
So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.