Joshua 8:7

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

"Then you shall rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the Lord your God will deliver it into your hands."

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 8:1 : 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 Kgs 5:1 : 1 Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master's sight and highly regarded, because through him the Lord had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant warrior, but he had leprosy.
  • Prov 21:30-31 : 30 There is no wisdom, no understanding, and no counsel that can stand against the LORD. 31 The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but victory belongs to the LORD.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 8:8
    81%

    8"When you have taken the city, you shall set it on fire, as the Lord has commanded. See, I have commanded you."

  • Josh 8:18-22
    5 verses
    79%

    18The 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.

    19As 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.

    20When 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.

    21When 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.

    22The 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.

  • Josh 8:4-6
    3 verses
    79%

    4He 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."

  • Josh 8:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1The 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."

  • Deut 20:12-14
    3 verses
    74%

    12But if it does not make peace with you and wages war against you, then you shall besiege it.

    13When the LORD your God delivers it into your hands, strike down every male there with the sword.

    14However, you may take the women, children, livestock, and everything else in the city as your spoils. You may enjoy the plunder from your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.

  • 2 Sam 12:28
    74%

    28Now gather the rest of the troops and besiege the city and capture it. Otherwise, I will take the city, and it will be named after me.'

  • Deut 31:5
    74%

    5The LORD will deliver them to you, and you must act toward them according to the entire commandment I have instructed you.

  • Judg 7:9
    73%

    9That night the LORD said to him, "Get up and go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hands.

  • Josh 10:19
    73%

    19But as for you, do not stop! Pursue your enemies and attack them from behind. Do not allow them to enter their cities, for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hands.”

  • Deut 21:10
    72%

    10When you go out to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hand and you take captives,

  • Josh 6:16
    72%

    16On the seventh time around, when the priests sounded the trumpet blast, Joshua said to the people, 'Shout! For the LORD has given you the city!'

  • Lev 26:7
    71%

    7You will chase your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword.

  • Deut 13:16
    71%

    16you must surely strike down the inhabitants of that city with the sword, devoting it and all that is in it, including its livestock, to complete destruction.

  • Deut 28:7
    71%

    7The LORD will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will come out against you in one direction but flee from you in seven directions.

  • Judg 9:32-33
    2 verses
    71%

    32Now then, during the night you and your men should come and lie in wait in the fields.

    33In the morning, as the sun rises, advance against the city. When Gaal and his men come out against you, do whatever is needed to deal with them.

  • Josh 6:2
    71%

    2Then the LORD said to Joshua, 'See, I have delivered Jericho, its king, and its mighty warriors into your hands.'

  • Josh 8:12-14
    3 verses
    71%

    12He took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, west of the city.

    13The 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.

    14When 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.

  • Deut 1:21
    71%

    21See, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up and take possession of it, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.

  • Josh 10:8
    70%

    8And the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them. I have given them into your hand; not one of them will be able to stand against you.”

  • 1 Sam 14:10
    70%

    10But if they say, 'Come up to us,' we will go up, for the Lord has handed them over to us. That will be our sign.

  • Deut 11:31
    70%

    31For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land the LORD your God is giving you. You will take possession of it and live in it.

  • Jer 38:3
    70%

    3This is what the LORD says: This city will surely be handed over to the army of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.

  • Josh 8:27
    70%

    27Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took for themselves, according to the word of the Lord that He commanded Joshua.

  • Deut 7:23-24
    2 verses
    70%

    23But the LORD your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great panic until they are destroyed.

    24He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names from under the heavens. No one will be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.

  • Deut 3:7
    70%

    7But we kept all the livestock and the spoils of the cities for ourselves.

  • 2 Kgs 7:12
    70%

    12The king got up in the night and said to his servants, "I will tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are hungry, so they have gone out of the camp to hide in the countryside, thinking, 'When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and take the city.'"

  • Deut 28:52
    70%

    52They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until your high fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down. They will besiege all the cities in the land the LORD your God has given you.

  • Deut 2:36
    70%

    36From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, and from the city in the valley, even to Gilead, not one city was too strong for us. The LORD our God gave them all into our hands.

  • Deut 3:18
    69%

    18At that time I commanded you: 'The LORD your God has given you this land to take possession of it. All your fighting men, fully armed, must cross over ahead of your fellow Israelites.'

  • Josh 6:7
    69%

    7And he commanded the people, 'Advance and march around the city, with the armed men going ahead of the ark of the LORD.'

  • Judg 1:2
    69%

    2The LORD answered, "Judah shall go up. I have given the land into his hand."