It is common in the Bible for people to "rise up," and it would be easy to pass over the phrase as simply describing a physical action. But in fact it represents an elevation in spiritual state, moving to a more internal frame of mind closer to the Lord. Often it has to do with understanding a new or important idea; we "rise up" to a state of greater perception and enlightenment. Obviously context is crucial to the exact meaning of the phrase in a given passage -- it matters greatly who it is that is rising up, and why.

6860. 'And the Hivite and the Jebusite' means occupied by what is idolatrous but has some kind of goodness and truth in it. This is clear from the representation of 'the Hivite' as that which is idolatrous but has some kind of goodness in it; and from the representation of 'the Jebusite' as that which is idolatrous but has some kind of truth in it. The fact that those nations mean such things may be recognized from the permission granted to Joshua and the elders to make a treaty with the Gibeonites, Joshua 9:3 and following verses, and from the fact that they became hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of God, Joshua 9:23, 27. (These people were Hivites, see Joshua 9:7; 11:19.) And the fact that 'the Jebusites' represent those who practise that which is idolatrous yet has some kind of truth in it may be recognized from the Jebusites who were allowed to remain for a long time in Jerusalem and were not driven out from there, Joshua 15:63; 18:16, 18; 2 Samuel 5:6-10.