Joshua 8:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then Joshua and all Israel, acting as if they were overcome before them, went in flight by way of the waste land.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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.
  • Judg 20:36 : 36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were overcome: and the men of Israel had given way before Benjamin, putting their faith in the watchers who were to make the surprise attack on Gibeah.
  • Josh 15:61 : 61 In the waste land, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah;
  • Josh 16:1 : 1 And 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;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 8:16-17
    2 verses
    83%

    16 And all the people in Ai came together to go after them; and they went after Joshua, moving away from the town.

    17 There 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.

  • Josh 8:19-22
    4 verses
    79%

    19 Then 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.

    20 Then 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.

    21 And 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.

    22 Then 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.

  • Josh 8:4-6
    3 verses
    79%

    4 And 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:

    5 And I and all the people with me will come near the town, and when they come out against us as they did before, we will go in flight from them;

    6 And they will come out after us, till we have got them away from the town; for they will say, They have gone in flight from us as before; so we will go in flight before them;

  • Josh 8:9-14
    6 verses
    78%

    9 So 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.

    10 And 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.

    11 And 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.

    12 And 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.

    13 So 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.

    14 Now 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.

  • Josh 11:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7 So Joshua and all the men of war with him came against them suddenly at the waters of Merom, and made an attack on them.

    8 And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Israel, and they overcame them driving them back to great Zidon and to Misrephoth-maim and into the valley of Mizpeh to the east; and they put them all to death, no man got away safely.

  • Josh 8:24
    74%

    24 Then, 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 7:8
    74%

    8 O Lord, what am I to say now that Israel have given way before their attackers?

  • Josh 9:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2 Came together with one purpose, to make war against Joshua and Israel.

    3 And the men of Gibeon, hearing what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

  • Josh 2:24
    74%

    24 And they said to Joshua, Truly, the Lord has given all the land into our hands; and all the people of the land have become like water because of us.

  • Judg 20:42
    74%

    42 So turning their backs on the men of Israel, they went in the direction of the waste land; but the fight overtook them; and those who came out of the town were heading them off and putting them to the sword.

  • Josh 10:15
    73%

    15 And Joshua, with all Israel, went back to the tent-circle at Gilgal.

  • 1 Chr 19:14
    73%

    14 So Joab and the people who were with him went forward into the fight against the Aramaeans, and they went in flight before him.

  • 2 Chr 13:16
    73%

    16 And the children of Israel went in flight before Judah, and God gave them up into their hands.

  • Josh 5:1
    73%

    1 Now when the news came to all the kings of the Amorites on the west side of Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites living by the sea, how the Lord had made the waters of Jordan dry before the children of Israel, till they had gone across, their hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.

  • Judg 20:32
    73%

    32 And the children of Benjamin said, They are giving way before us as at first. But the children of Israel said, Let us go in flight and get them away from the town, into the highways.

  • Josh 9:24
    73%

    24 And, answering Joshua, they said, Because it came to the ears of your servants that the Lord your God had given orders to his servant Moses to give you all this land, and to send destruction on all the people living in it, because of you; so, fearing greatly for our lives because of you, we have done this.

  • Josh 10:8-10
    3 verses
    73%

    8 And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them, for I have given them into your hands; they will all give way before you.

    9 So Joshua, having come up from Gilgal all night, made a sudden attack on them.

    10 And the Lord made them full of fear before Israel, and they put great numbers of them to death at Gibeon, and went after them by the way going up to Beth-horon, driving them back to Azekah and Makkedah

  • Josh 8:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 Then 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:

    2 And 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.

  • Josh 7:4
    72%

    4 So about three thousand of the people went up, and were sent in flight by the men of Ai.

  • Josh 8:26
    72%

    26 For Joshua did not take back his hand with the outstretched spear till the destruction of the people of Ai was complete.