Joshua 7:2
Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is by the side of Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and said to them, Go up and make a search through the land. And the men went up and saw how Ai was placed.
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- Josh 18:12 : 12 And their limit on the north was from the Jordan, and the line goes up to the side of Jericho on the north and through the hill-country to the west, ending at the waste land of Beth-aven.
- 1 Sam 13:5 : 5 And the Philistines came together to make war on Israel, three thousand war-carriages and six thousand horsemen and an army of people like the sands of the sea in number: they came up and took up their position in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.
- 1 Sam 14:23 : 23 So the Lord made Israel safe that day: and the fight went over to Beth-aven.
- Hos 4:15 : 15 Do not you, O Israel, come into error; do not you, O Judah, come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, or take an oath, By the living Lord.
- Matt 10:16 : 16 See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.
- Eph 5:15 : 15 Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise;
- Neh 11:31 : 31 And the children of Benjamin were living from Geba, at Michmash and Aija, and at Beth-el and its daughter-towns,
- Prov 20:18 : 18 Every purpose is put into effect by wise help: and by wise guiding make war.
- Prov 24:6 : 6 For by wise guiding you will overcome in war: and in a number of wise guides there is salvation.
- Gen 12:8 : 8 And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.
- Gen 28:19 : 19 And he gave that place the name of Beth-el, but before that time the town was named Luz.
- Josh 2:1 : 1 Then Joshua, the son of Nun, sent two men from Shittim secretly, with the purpose of searching out the land, and Jericho. So they went and came to the house of a loose woman of the town, named Rahab, where they took their rest for the night.
- Josh 12:9 : 9 The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is near Beth-el, one;
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- Josh 7:3-53 verses80%
3Then they came back to Joshua and said to him, Do not send all the people up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and make an attack on Ai; there is no need for all the people to be tired with the journey there, for it is only a small town.
4So about three thousand of the people went up, and were sent in flight by the men of Ai.
5The men of Ai put to death about thirty-six of them, driving them from before the town as far as the stoneworks, and overcoming them on the way down: and the hearts of the people became like water.
- Josh 8:9-2416 verses80%
9So Joshua sent them out: and they took up a secret position between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua kept with the people that night.
10And early in the morning Joshua got up, and put the people in order, and he and the chiefs of Israel went up before the people to Ai.
11And all the fighting-men who were with him went up and came near the town, and took up a position on the north side of Ai facing the town, with a valley between him and the town.
12And taking about five thousand men, he put them in position for a surprise attack on the west side of Ai, between Beth-el and Ai.
13So all the people were in their places, the army on the north side of the town and the secret force on the west; and that night Joshua went down into the valley.
14Now when the king of Ai saw it, he got up quickly and went out to war against Israel, he and all his people, to the slope going down to the valley; but he had no idea that a secret force was waiting at the back of the town.
15Then Joshua and all Israel, acting as if they were overcome before them, went in flight by way of the waste land.
16And all the people in Ai came together to go after them; and they went after Joshua, moving away from the town.
17There was not a man in Ai and Beth-el who did not go out after Israel; and the town was open and unwatched while they went after Israel.
18And the Lord said to Joshua, Let your spear be stretched out against Ai; for I will give it into your hands. So Joshua took up his spear, stretching it out in the direction of the town.
19Then the secret force came quickly from their place, and running forward when they saw his hand stretched out, went into the town and took it, and put fire to it straight away.
20Then the men of Ai, looking back, saw the smoke of the town going up to heaven, and were unable to go this way or that: and the people who had gone in flight to the waste land were turned back on those who were coming after them.
21And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the town had been taken by the surprise attack, and that the smoke of the town had gone up, turning round they overcame the men of Ai.
22Then the other force came out of the town against them, so that they were being attacked on this side and on that: and Israel overcame them and let not one of them get away with his life.
23But the king of Ai they made prisoner, and took him to Joshua.
24Then, after the destruction of all the people of Ai in the field and in the waste land where they went after them, and when all the people had been put to death without mercy, all Israel went back to Ai, and put to death all who were in it without mercy.
- Josh 8:1-44 verses77%
1Then the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear and do not be troubled: take with you all the fighting-men and go up against Ai: for I have given into your hands the king of Ai and his people and his town and his land:
2And you are to do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king: but their goods and their cattle you may take for yourselves: let a secret force be stationed to make a surprise attack on the town from the back.
3So Joshua and the fighting-men got ready to go up against Ai; and Joshua took thirty thousand men of war, and sent them out by night.
4And he gave them their orders, saying, Go and take up your position secretly at the back of the town: do not go very far away, and let all of you be ready:
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1But the children of Israel did wrong about the cursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the family of Judah, took of the cursed thing, moving the Lord to wrath against the children of Israel.
- Josh 2:1-22 verses75%
1Then Joshua, the son of Nun, sent two men from Shittim secretly, with the purpose of searching out the land, and Jericho. So they went and came to the house of a loose woman of the town, named Rahab, where they took their rest for the night.
2And it was said to the king of Jericho, See, some men have come here tonight from the children of Israel with the purpose of searching out the land.
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9The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is near Beth-el, one;
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3And the men of Gibeon, hearing what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,
- Josh 18:8-92 verses73%
8So the men got up and went; and Joshua gave orders to those who went, to make a record of the land, saying, Go up and down through the land, and make a record of it and come back here to me, and I will make the distribution for you here by the decision of the Lord in Shiloh.
9So the men went, travelling through the land, and made a record of it by towns in seven parts in a book, and came back to Joshua to the tent-circle at Shiloh.
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28So Joshua gave Ai to the flames, and made it a waste mass of stones for ever, as it is to this day.
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32The men of Beth-el and Ai, a hundred and twenty-three.
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26For Joshua did not take back his hand with the outstretched spear till the destruction of the people of Ai was complete.
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23So they sent men to make a search round Beth-el. (Now the name of the town in earlier times was Luz.)
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7And he said to the people, Go forward, circling the town, and let the armed men go before the ark of the Lord.
- Josh 7:22-243 verses71%
22So Joshua sent men quickly, and looking in his tent, they saw where the robe had been put away secretly with the silver under it.
23And they took them from the tent and came back with them to Joshua and the children of Israel, and put them before the Lord.
24Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, the son of Zerah, and the silver and the robe and the mass of gold, and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and everything he had; and they took them up into the valley of Achor.
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1And the limit of the land marked out for the children of Joseph went out from Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, in the waste land, going up from Jericho through the hill-country to Beth-el;
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23Then the two men came down from the hill-country and went over and came back to Joshua, the son of Nun; and they gave him a complete account of what had taken place.
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1Now when it came to the ears of Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, that Joshua had taken Ai, and had given it up to the curse (for as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king); and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living among them;
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28The men of Beth-el and Ai, two hundred and twenty-three.
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2And the Lord said to Joshua, See, I have given into your hands Jericho with its king and all its men of war.
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1Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and, moving on from Shittim, he and all the children of Israel came to Jordan and were there for the night before going over.
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17So Moses sent them to have a look at the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up into the South and into the hill-country;
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13Now when Joshua was near Jericho, lifting up his eyes he saw a man in front of him, with his sword uncovered in his hand: and Joshua went up to him and said, Are you for us or against us?