Joshua 8:7
Then you will get up from your secret position and take the town, for the Lord your God will give it up into your hands.
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- Josh 8:1 : 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 Kgs 5:1 : 1 Now Naaman, chief of the army of the king of Aram, was a man of high position with his master, and greatly respected, because by him the Lord had given salvation to Aram; but he was a leper.
- Prov 21:30-31 : 30 Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord. 31 The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.
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8 And when you have taken the town, put fire to it, as the Lord has said: see, I have given you your orders.
- Josh 8:18-225 verses79%
18 And 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.
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 8:4-63 verses79%
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 8:1-22 verses75%
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.
- Deut 20:12-143 verses74%
12 If however it will not make peace with you, but war, then let it be shut in on all sides:
13 And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.
14 But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.
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28 So now, get the rest of the people together, and put them in position against the town and take it, for if I take it, it will be named after my name.
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5 The Lord will give them up into your hands, and you are to do to them as I have given you orders.
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9 The same night the Lord said to him, Up! go down now against their army, for I have given them into your hands.
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19 But do you, without waiting, go after their army, attacking them from the back; do not let them get into their towns, for the Lord your God has given them into your hands.
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10 When you go out to war against other nations, and the Lord your God gives them up into your hands and you take them as prisoners;
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16 And the seventh time, at the sound of the priests' horns, Joshua said to the people, Now give a loud cry; for the Lord has given you the town.
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7 And you will put to flight those who are against you, and they will be put to death by your swords.
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16 And take all the goods into the middle of its open space, burning the town and all its property with fire as an offering to the Lord your God; it is to be a waste for ever; there is to be no more building there.
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7 By the power of the Lord, those who take arms against you will be overcome before you: they will come out against you one way, and will go in flight from you seven ways.
- Judg 9:32-332 verses71%
32 So now, get up by night, you and your people, and keep watch in the field secretly;
33 And in the morning, when the sun is up, get up early and make a rush on the town; and when he and his people come out against you, do to them whatever you have a chance to do.
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2 And the Lord said to Joshua, See, I have given into your hands Jericho with its king and all its men of war.
- Josh 8:12-143 verses71%
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.
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21 See now, the Lord your God has put the land into your hands: go up and take it, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said to you; have no fear and do not be troubled.
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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.
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10 But if they say, Come up to us; then we will go up, for the Lord has given them into our hands: and this will be the sign to us.
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31 For you are about to go over Jordan to take the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you, and it will be your resting-place.
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3 The Lord has said, This town will certainly be given into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will take it.
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27 But the cattle and the goods from that town, Israel took for themselves, as the Lord had given orders to Joshua.
- Deut 7:23-242 verses70%
23 But the Lord your God will give them up into your hands, overpowering them till their destruction is complete.
24 He will give their kings into your hands, and you will put their names out of existence under heaven; there is not one of them who will not give way before you, till their destruction is complete.
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7 But we took for ourselves all the cattle and the stored wealth of the towns.
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12 Then the king got up in the night and said to his servants, This is my idea of what the Aramaeans have done to us. They have knowledge that we are without food; and so they have gone out of their tents, and are waiting secretly in the open country, saying, When they come out of the town, we will take them living and get into the town.
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52 Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you.
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36 From Aroer on the edge of the valley of the Arnon and from the town in the valley as far as Gilead, no town was strong enough to keep us out; the Lord our God gave them all into our hands:
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18 At that time I gave you orders, saying, The Lord has given you this land for your heritage: all the men of war are to go over armed before your brothers the children of Israel.
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7 And he said to the people, Go forward, circling the town, and let the armed men go before the ark of the Lord.
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2 And the Lord said, Judah is to go up: see, I have given the land into his hands.