Joshua 8:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai; and Joshua chose thirty thousand mighty men of valor and sent them away by night.

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  • Matt 24:39 : 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
  • Matt 24:50 : 50 the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour that he is not aware of,
  • Matt 25:6 : 6 And at midnight a cry was made: Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him.
  • 1 Thess 5:2 : 2 For you know perfectly that the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night.
  • 2 Pet 3:10 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are in it shall be burned up.

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  • Josh 7:2-5
    4 verses
    82%

    2And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.

    3And they returned to Joshua, and said to him, Do not let all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai; and do not make all the people labor there; for they are but few.

    4So about three thousand men went up there from the people: and they fled before the men of Ai.

    5And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six men: for they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them down on the descent: so the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

  • Josh 8:8-26
    19 verses
    82%

    8And it shall be, when you have taken the city, that you shall set the city on fire; according to the commandment of the LORD you shall do. See, I have commanded you.

    9Joshua therefore sent them forth, and they went to lie in ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua lodged that night among the people.

    10And Joshua rose early in the morning, and numbered the people and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

    11And all the people, even the people of war who were with him, went up and drew near, and came before the city and camped on the north side of Ai; now there was a valley between them and Ai.

    12And he took about five thousand men and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

    13And when they had set the people, even all the army that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

    14And 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.

    15And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

    16And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them; and they pursued after Joshua and were drawn away from the city.

    17And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel; and they left the city open and pursued after Israel.

    18And the LORD said to Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.

    19And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand; and they entered into the city and took it and hastened and set the city on fire.

    20And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way; and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

    21And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again and slew the men of Ai.

    22And the others issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on that side; and they struck them so that none of them remained or escaped.

    23And the king of Ai they took alive and brought him to Joshua.

    24And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness where they chased them, and when they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.

    25And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, all the men of Ai.

    26For Joshua did not draw his hand back, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

  • Josh 8:4
    80%

    4And he commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city; do not go very far from the city, but be all ready.

  • Josh 8:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1And the LORD said to Joshua, Do not fear or be dismayed; take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land.

    2And you shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, only the spoil and the cattle shall you take for a prey for yourselves; lay an ambush for the city behind it.

  • Josh 10:7-9
    3 verses
    74%

    7So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.

    8And the LORD said to Joshua, Do not fear them, for I have delivered them into your hand; not a man of them shall stand before you.

    9Joshua therefore came upon them suddenly, having marched all night from Gilgal.

  • Josh 4:13
    71%

    13About forty thousand prepared for war crossed over before the LORD to the plains of Jericho for battle.

  • Josh 11:7
    70%

    7So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they attacked them.

  • Josh 3:1
    70%

    1And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they crossed over.

  • Judg 7:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8So the people took provisions in their hands, and their trumpets, and he sent all the rest of Israel, every man to his tent, and retained those three hundred men; and the Midianite army was below him in the valley.

    9And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said to him, Arise, go down to the army, for I have delivered it into your hand.

  • Josh 9:3
    69%

    3And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

  • Josh 6:7
    69%

    7And he said to the people, Proceed, and surround the city, and let him who is armed go on before the ark of the LORD.

  • 1 Sam 11:8
    68%

    8And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

  • Josh 6:2
    68%

    2And the LORD said to Joshua, See, I have given into your hand Jericho, and its king, and the mighty men of valor.

  • Num 31:3-5
    3 verses
    68%

    3And Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves for war, and let them go against the Midianites to avenge the LORD on Midian.

    4From every tribe, a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, you shall send to the war.

    5So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

  • Josh 5:13
    68%

    13And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there stood a man opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand; and Joshua went to him and said to him, Are you for us or for our adversaries?

  • 2 Sam 6:1
    68%

    1Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.

  • 2 Chr 13:3
    68%

    3Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant warriors, four hundred thousand chosen men. Jeroboam arranged the battle against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, mighty men of valor.