Joshua 8:15

Geneva Bible (1560)

Then Ioshua and all Israel as beaten before them, fled by the way of the wildernes.

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  • Josh 18:12 : 12 And their coast on the Northside was from Iorden, and the border went vp to the side of Iericho on the Northpart, and went vp through the mountaines Westward, and the endes thereof are in the wildernesse of Beth-auen:
  • Judg 20:36 : 36 So the children of Beniamin sawe that they were striken downe: for the men of Israel gaue place to the Beniamites, because they trusted to the men that lay in waite, which they had laide beside Gibeah.
  • Josh 15:61 : 61 In the wildernes were Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah,
  • Josh 16:1 : 1 And the lot fell to the children of Ioseph from Iorden by Iericho vnto the water of Iericho Eastward, and to the wildernes that goeth vp from Iericho by the mount Beth-el:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 8:16-17
    2 verses
    83%

    16And all the people of the citie were called together, to pursue after them: and they pursued after Ioshua, & were drawen away out of the city,

    17So that there was not a man left in Ai, nor in Beth-el, that went not out after Israel: and they left the citie open, and pursued after Israel.

  • Josh 8:19-22
    4 verses
    79%

    19And they that lay in wait, arose quickly out of their place, and ranne as soone as he had stretched out his hand, and they entred into the citie, and tooke it, and hasted, and set the citie on fire.

    20And the men of Ai looked behinde them, and sawe it: for loe, the smoke of the citie ascended vp to heauen, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: for the people that fled to the wildernesse, turned backe vpon the pursuers.

    21When Ioshua and all Israel sawe that they that lay in waite, had taken the citie, and that the smoke of the citie mounted vp, then they turned againe and slewe the men of Ai.

    22Also the other issued out of the citie against them: so were they in the middes of Israel, these being on the one side, and the rest on the other side: and they slewe them, so that they let none of them remaine nor escape.

  • Josh 8:4-6
    3 verses
    79%

    4And he commanded them, saying, Behold, yee shall lye in waite against the citie on the backeside of the citie: goe not very farre from the citie, but be ye all in a readinesse.

    5And I and all the people that are with me, will approche vnto the citie: and when they shall come out against vs, as they did at the first time, then will we flee before them.

    6For they wil come out after vs, till we haue brought them out of the citie: for they will say, They flee before vs as at the first time: so we will flee before them.

  • Josh 8:9-14
    6 verses
    78%

    9Ioshua then sent them foorth, and they went to lye in waite, and abode betweene Beth-el and Ai, on the Westside of Ai: but Ioshua lodged that night among the people.

    10And Ioshua rose vp early in the morning, and nombred the people: and he and the Elders of Israel went vp before the people against Ai.

    11Also all the men of warre that were with him went vp and drewe neere, and came against the citie, and pitched on the Northside of Ai: and there was a valley betweene them and Ai.

    12And hee tooke about fiue thousande men, and set them to lye in waite betweene Beth-el and Ai, on the Westside of the citie.

    13And the people set all the hoste that was on the Northside against the citie, and the liers in waite on the West, against the citie: and Ioshua went the same night into the mids of the valley.

    14And 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.

  • Josh 11:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7Then came Ioshua and al the men of warre with him against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell vpon them.

    8And the Lord gaue them into the hand of Israel: and they smote them, & chased them vnto great Zidon, & vnto Misrephothmaim, and vnto the valley of Mizpeh Eastward, and smote them vntill they had none remaining of them.

  • Josh 8:24
    74%

    24And when Israel had made an ende of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the fielde, that is, in the wildernesse, where they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sworde, vntill they were consumed, all the Israelites returned vnto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sworde.

  • Josh 7:8
    74%

    8Oh Lord, what shal I say, when Israel turne their backes before their enemies?

  • Josh 9:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2They gathered themselues together, to fight against Ioshua, & against Israel with one accord.

    3But the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Ioshua had done vnto Iericho, and to Ai.

  • Josh 2:24
    74%

    24Also they saide vnto Ioshua, Surely the Lorde hath deliuered into our handes all the lande: for euen all the inhabitants of the countrey faint because of vs.

  • Judg 20:42
    74%

    42Therefore they fled before the men of Israel vnto the way of the wildernesse, but the battell ouertooke them: also they which came out of the cities, slew them among them.

  • Josh 10:15
    73%

    15After, Ioshua returned, and all Israel with him vnto the campe to Gilgal:

  • 1 Chr 19:14
    73%

    14So Ioab and the people that was with him, came neere before the Aramites vnto the battel, and they fled before him.

  • 2 Chr 13:16
    73%

    16And the children of Israel fledde before Iudah, & God deliuered them into their hande.

  • Josh 5:1
    73%

    1Nowe when all the Kings of the Amorites, which were beyond Iorden Westward, and all the Kinges of the Canaanites which were by the Sea, heard that the Lord had dried vp the waters of Iorden before the children of Israel vntill they were gone ouer, their heart fainted: & there was no courage in them any more because of the children of Israel.

  • Judg 20:32
    73%

    32(For the children of Beniamin sayd, They are fallen before vs, as at the first. But the children of Israel saide, Let vs flee and plucke them away from the citie vnto the hie wayes)

  • Josh 9:24
    73%

    24And they answered Ioshua, and sayd, Because it was tolde thy seruants, that the Lord thy God had commanded his seruant Moses to giue you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land out of your sight, therefore we were exceeding sore afraid for our liues at the presence of you, and haue done this thing:

  • Josh 10:8-10
    3 verses
    73%

    8And the Lord sayd vnto Ioshua, Feare them not: for I haue giuen them into thine hand: none of them shall stand against thee.

    9Ioshua therefore came vnto them suddenly: for he went vp from Gilgal all the night.

    10And the Lord discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth vp to Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah and to Makkedah.

  • Josh 8:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1After, the Lord saide vnto Ioshua, Feare not, neither bee thou faint hearted: take all the men of warre with thee and arise, go vp to Ai: beholde, I haue giuen into thine hand the King of Ai, and his people, and his citie, and his land.

    2And thou shalt doe to Ai and to the King thereof, as thou didst vnto Iericho and to the King thereof: neuerthelesse the spoyle thereof and the cattell thereof shall ye take vnto you for a praye: thou shalt lye in wait against the citie on the backside thereof.

  • Josh 7:4
    72%

    4So there went vp thither of the people about three thousande men, and they fledde before the men of Ai.

  • Josh 8:26
    72%

    26For Ioshua drewe not his hande backe againe which he had stretched out with the speare, vntill hee had vtterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.