Joshua 8:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

Then you shall rise up from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.

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  • Josh 8:1 : 1 And 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.
  • 2 Kgs 5:1 : 1 Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
  • Prov 21:30-31 : 30 There is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel against the LORD. 31 The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but safety is of the LORD.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 8:8
    81%

    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.

  • Josh 8:18-22
    5 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Josh 8:4-6
    3 verses
    79%

    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.

    5And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach the city, and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.

    6(For they will come out after us) until we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first; therefore we will flee before them.

  • Josh 8:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Deut 20:12-14
    3 verses
    74%

    12And if it will not make peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:

    13And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

    14But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, you shall take for yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.

  • 2 Sam 12:28
    74%

    28Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, encamp against the city, and take it: unless I take the city, and it be called by my name.

  • Deut 31:5
    74%

    5And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that you may do to them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you.

  • Judg 7:9
    73%

    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 10:19
    73%

    19And do not stay there, but pursue your enemies, and attack their rear guard. Do not allow them to enter their cities, for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand.

  • Deut 21:10
    72%

    10When you go forth to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God has delivered them into your hands, and you have taken them captive,

  • Josh 6:16
    72%

    16And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, Shout; for the LORD has given you the city.

  • Lev 26:7
    71%

    7And you shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

  • Deut 13:16
    71%

    16And you shall gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shall burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every bit, for the LORD your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.

  • Deut 28:7
    71%

    7The LORD shall cause your enemies that rise up against you to be smitten before your face: they shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways.

  • Judg 9:32-33
    2 verses
    71%

    32Now therefore arise by night, you and the people with you, and lie in wait in the field.

    33And it shall be that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early and set upon the city; and behold, when he and the people that are with him come out against you, you may do to them as you find opportunity.

  • Josh 6:2
    71%

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

  • Josh 8:12-14
    3 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Deut 1:21
    71%

    21Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of your fathers has told you; do not fear, neither be discouraged.

  • Josh 10:8
    70%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 14:10
    70%

    10But if they say, 'Come up to us,' then we will go up, for the LORD has delivered them into our hand; and this will be a sign to us."

  • Deut 11:31
    70%

    31For you shall pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you shall possess it and dwell in it.

  • Jer 38:3
    70%

    3Thus says the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it.

  • Josh 8:27
    70%

    27Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey for themselves, according to the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.

  • Deut 7:23-24
    2 verses
    70%

    23But the LORD your God shall deliver them to you, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they are destroyed.

    24And he shall deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall destroy their name from under heaven: no man will be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.

  • Deut 3:7
    70%

    7But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities, we took as plunder for ourselves.

  • 2 Kgs 7:12
    70%

    12And the king arose in the night, and said to his servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.

  • Deut 28:52
    70%

    52And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land: and he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.

  • Deut 2:36
    70%

    36From Aroer by the edge of the river Arnon, and from the city by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not a city too strong for us; the LORD our God delivered all unto us.

  • Deut 3:18
    69%

    18And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God has given you this land to possess; all you who are able shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel.

  • 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.

  • Judg 1:2
    69%

    2And the LORD said, Judah shall go up; behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.