“Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.”
The appeal to united action — Come up to me and help me, and let us strike Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the people of Israel. The phrase 'come up to me' (עֲלוּ־אֵלַי) invokes the vassal's duty of military aid. Adoni-zedek frames Gibeon's treaty with Joshua as betrayal, calling for a punitive expedition. The kings see Joshua and Israel as the real enemy but recognize that Gibeon's defection has fractured Canaanite resistance.
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