Joshua 8:14
When the king of Ai saw this, he and all his men of the city hurried and rose early, going out to meet Israel in battle at the appointed place near the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush was set against him behind the city.
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King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.
KJV1611 – Modern English
And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he did not know that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.
King James Version 1611 (Original)
And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
And it came to pass, when the king{H4428} of Ai{H5857} saw{H7200} it, that they hasted{H4116} and rose up early,{H7925} and the men{H582} of the city{H5892} went out{H3318} against{H7125} Israel{H3478} to battle,{H4421} he and all his people,{H5971} at the time appointed,{H4150} before{H6440} the Arabah;{H6160} but he knew{H3045} not that there was an ambush{H693} against him behind{H310} the city.{H5892}
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
And it came to pass, when the king{H4428} of Ai{H5857} saw{H7200}{(H8800)} it, that they hasted{H4116}{(H8762)} and rose up early{H7925}{(H8686)}, and the men{H582} of the city{H5892} went out{H3318}{(H8799)} against{H7125}{(H8800)} Israel{H3478} to battle{H4421}, he and all his people{H5971}, at a time appointed{H4150}, before{H6440} the plain{H6160}; but he wist{H3045}{(H8804)} not that there were liers in ambush{H693}{(H8802)} against him behind{H310} the city{H5892}.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
But whan the kynge of Hai sawe that, he made haist, and gat him vp early, and the men out of the cite, to mete Israel to ye battayll, with all his people, euen righte before the felde: for he wyst not that there was a preuy watch behynde him on the backe syde of the cite.
Geneva Bible (1560)
And when the King of Ai sawe it, then the men of the citie hasted and rose vp earely, and went out against Israel to battell, hee and all his people at the time appointed, before the plaine: for he knew not that any lay in waite against him on the backeside of the citie.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
And when the kyng of Ai sawe it, they hasted and rose vp early, and the men of the citie went out agaynst Israel to battayle, he and all his people at a tyme appoynted, euen before the playne: and wyst not that there were lyers in wayte agaynst him on the backsyde of the citie.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw [it], that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that [there were] liers in ambush against him behind the city.
Webster's Bible (1833)
It happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
And it cometh to pass, when the king of Ai seeth `it', that hasten, and rise early, and go out do the men of the city to meet Israel for battle, he and all his people, at the appointed season, at the front of the plain, and he hath not known that an ambush `is' against him, on the rear of the city.
American Standard Version (1901)
And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he knew not that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
American Standard Version (1901)
And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he knew not that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
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.
World English Bible (2000)
It happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
When the king of Ai saw Israel, they rushed to get up early. Then the men of the city went out to meet Israel in battle, he and all his people, at the meeting place near the rift valley. But he did not realize an ambush was waiting for him behind the city.
Referenced Verses
- Deut 1:1 : 1 These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan, in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, and Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab.
- Josh 8:5 : 5 "I and all the people with me will approach the city, and when they come out to meet us as they did before, we will flee before them."
- Josh 8:16 : 16 All the people of Ai were summoned to pursue them. They chased after Joshua and were drawn away from the city.
- Judg 20:34-36 : 34 Ten thousand of Israel's finest men advanced against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjaminites did not realize that disaster was closing in on them. 35 The LORD struck down Benjamin before Israel, and the Israelites killed twenty-five thousand one hundred Benjaminites that day, all armed with swords. 36 Then the Benjaminites saw that they were defeated. The Israelites had given ground to the Benjaminites because they relied on the ambush they had set near Gibeah.
- Eccl 9:12 : 12 For no one knows their time. Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so are people ensnared by an evil time when it suddenly falls upon them.
- Isa 19:11 : 11 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; Pharaoh's wisest counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, 'I am a descendant of the wise, a son of ancient kings'?
- Isa 19:13 : 13 The princes of Zoan have become fools; the princes of Memphis are deceived. They have led Egypt astray, the cornerstone of its tribes.
- Dan 4:31 : 31 At the end of that time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me. I praised the Most High, honored, and glorified Him who lives forever: His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.
- Matt 24:39 : 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
- Matt 24:50 : 50 The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of.
- 1 Thess 5:1-3 : 1 Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need for anything to be written to you. 2 For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, "Peace and safety," sudden destruction will come upon them like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
- 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 In their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Josh 8:1-1313 verses84%
1 The Lord said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid or dismayed. Take all the fighting men with you and go up to Ai. See, I have delivered into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land."
2 "Do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. However, you may take its spoil and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush against the city, behind it."
3 So Joshua and all the fighting men rose to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand mighty men of valor and sent them out by night.
4 He commanded them, saying, "Behold, you are to lie in ambush against the city, behind it. Do not go far from the city, but all of you stay ready."
5 "I and all the people with me will approach the city, and when they come out to meet us as they did before, we will flee before them."
6 "They will chase after us until we lure them away from the city, for they will say, 'They are running away from us as they did before.' So we will flee before them."
7 "Then you shall rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the Lord your God will deliver it into your hands."
8 "When you have taken the city, you shall set it on fire, as the Lord has commanded. See, I have commanded you."
9 So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the ambush site, remaining between Bethel and Ai, west of Ai. Joshua spent that night among the people.
10 Joshua rose early in the morning, mustered the people, and he and the elders of Israel went up before the people to Ai.
11 All the fighting men who were with him went up and approached the city. They camped to the north of Ai, with the valley between them and the city.
12 He took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, west of the city.
13 The people positioned all the camp to the north of the city, while a rear guard was placed to the west of the city. That night, Joshua went into the valley.
- Josh 8:15-2410 verses81%
15 Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten before them and fled toward the wilderness.
16 All the people of Ai were summoned to pursue them. They chased after Joshua and were drawn away from the city.
17 Not a man remained in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. They left the city unguarded and pursued Israel.
18 The Lord said to Joshua, "Stretch out the javelin in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand." So Joshua stretched out the javelin in his hand toward the city.
19 As soon as he stretched out his hand, the ambush rose quickly from their position, ran into the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.
20 When the men of Ai looked back, they saw the smoke of the city rising to the sky, and they had no power to flee in any direction. The Israelites who had fled toward the wilderness now turned against their pursuers.
21 When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had captured the city and that its smoke was rising, they turned back and struck down the men of Ai.
22 The others came out from the city to meet them, so the men of Ai were surrounded by the Israelites, some on one side and some on the other. They struck them down until no survivors or fugitives were left.
23 But they captured the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.
24 When Israel finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open field and in the wilderness where they had pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword until they were completely destroyed, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it down with the sword.
- Josh 7:2-54 verses77%
2 Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-Aven to the east of Bethel, and said to them, "Go up and scout out the land." So the men went up and explored Ai.
3 When they returned to Joshua, they said, "Not everyone needs to go up. About two or three thousand men are enough to attack Ai. Do not make all the people toil there, for the population is small."
4 So about three thousand men went up, but they fled from the men of Ai.
5 The men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of them. They chased them from the city gate as far as the quarries and struck them down on the slopes. At this, the hearts of the people melted and became like water.
- Josh 9:1-33 verses74%
1 When all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the lowlands, and along the entire coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the territory opposite Lebanon—heard about this, the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites,
2 they came together as one to fight against Joshua and Israel.
3 But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,
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26 Joshua did not draw back the hand with which he had stretched out the javelin until he had completely destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
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1 Now when Adoni-Zedek, king of Jerusalem, heard how Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction—doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living among them,
- Josh 8:28-292 verses72%
28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.
29 He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. At sunset, Joshua gave the command, and they took his body down from the tree, threw it at the entrance of the city gate, and piled over it a large heap of stones, which remains to this day.
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7 So Joshua and all his warriors came against them suddenly at the waters of Merom and attacked them.
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9 After marching all night from Gilgal, Joshua took them by surprise.
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1 Joshua rose early in the morning, and he and all the Israelites set out from Shittim and came to the Jordan. They stayed there before crossing over.
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2 Soon the king of Jericho was told, "Some men from the Israelites have come here tonight to spy out the land."
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13 Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua approached him and asked, "Are you for us or for our enemies?"
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9 The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is near Bethel, one;
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13 But Jeroboam deployed an ambush to come from behind them, so Judah was in front and the ambushers were behind them.
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30 The LORD gave Libnah into Israel's hands, along with its king. Joshua put the city and everyone in it to the sword, leaving no survivors. He treated its king as he had treated the king of Jericho.
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5 All these kings joined forces and came together to camp at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.
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5 Then the five kings of the Amorites—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon—joined forces, and they and their armies moved out, camped near Gibeon, and prepared to attack it.
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15 On the seventh day, they rose early, at dawn, and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. On that day alone, they circled the city seven times.