Joshua 8:6
They will attack us until we have lured them from the city, for they will say,‘They are retreating from us like before.’ We will retreat from them.
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- Exod 14:3 : 3 Pharaoh will think regarding the Israelites,‘They are wandering around confused in the land– the desert has closed in on them.’
- Exod 15:9 : 9 The enemy said,‘I will chase, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.’
- Judg 20:32 : 32 Then the Benjaminites said,“They are defeated just as before.” But the Israelites said,“Let’s retreat and lure them away from the city into the main roads.”
- Eccl 8:11 : 11 When a sentence is not executed at once against a crime, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.
- Eccl 9:12 : 12 Surely, no one knows his appointed time! Like fish that are caught in a deadly net, and like birds that are caught in a snare– just like them, all people are ensnared at an unfortunate time that falls upon them suddenly.
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- Josh 8:4-52 verses92%
4 He ordered them,“Look, set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city; all of you be ready!
5 I and all the troops who are with me will approach the city. When they come out to fight us like before, we will retreat from them.
- Josh 8:15-173 verses79%
15 Joshua and all Israel pretended to be defeated by them and they retreated along the way to the wilderness.
16 All the reinforcements in Ai were ordered to chase them; they chased Joshua and were lured away from the city.
17 No men were left in Ai or Bethel; they all went out after Israel. They left the city wide open and chased Israel.
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7 Then you rise up from your hiding place and seize the city. The LORD your God will hand it over to you.
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32 Then the Benjaminites said,“They are defeated just as before.” But the Israelites said,“Let’s retreat and lure them away from the city into the main roads.”
- Isa 30:16-172 verses75%
16 You say,‘No, we will flee on horses,’ so you will indeed flee. You say,‘We will ride on fast horses,’ so your pursuers will be fast.
17 One thousand will scurry at the battle cry of one enemy soldier; at the battle cry of five enemy soldiers you will all run away, until the remaining few are as isolated as a flagpole on a mountaintop or a signal flag on a hill.”
- 1 Sam 14:9-102 verses74%
9 If they say to us,‘Stay put until we approach you,’ we will stay right there and not go up to them.
10 But if they say,‘Come up against us,’ we will go up. For in that case the LORD has given them into our hand– it will be a sign to us.”
- Josh 8:19-202 verses74%
19 When he held out his hand, the men waiting in ambush rose up quickly from their place and attacked. They entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.
20 When the men of Ai turned around, they saw the smoke from the city ascending into the sky and were so shocked they were unable to flee in any direction. In the meantime the men who were retreating to the wilderness turned against their pursuers.
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14 So Joab and his men marched toward the Arameans to do battle, and they fled before him.
- Num 32:16-172 verses73%
16 The Offer of the Reubenites and Gadites Then they came very close to him and said,“We will build sheep folds here for our flocks and cities for our families,
17 but we will maintain ourselves in armed readiness and go before the Israelites until whenever we have brought them to their place. Our descendants will be living in fortified towns as a protection against the inhabitants of the land.
- Neh 4:11-122 verses73%
11 Our adversaries also boasted,“Before they are aware or anticipate anything, we will come in among them and kill them, and we will bring this work to a halt!”
12 So it happened that the Jews who were living near them came and warned us repeatedly about all the schemes they were plotting against us.
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13 So Joab and his men marched out to do battle with the Arameans, and they fled before him.
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7 So they got up and fled at dusk, leaving behind their tents, horses, and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives.
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16 She told them,“Head to the hill country, so the ones chasing you don’t find you. Hide from them there for three days, long enough for those chasing you to return. Then you can be on your way.”
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22 At the same time the men who had taken the city came out to fight, and the men of Ai were trapped in the middle. The Israelites struck them down, leaving no survivors or refugees.
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4 If we go into the city, we’ll die of starvation, and if we stay here we’ll die! So come on, let’s defect to the Syrian camp! If they spare us, we’ll live; if they kill us– well, we were going to die anyway.”
- Lev 26:7-82 verses71%
7 You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword.
8 Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.
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15 For they flee from the swords– from the drawn sword and from the battle-ready bow and from the severity of the battle.
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14 So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem,“Come on! Let’s escape! Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring disaster on us and kill the city’s residents with the sword.”
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36 “‘As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.
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5 “What do I see! The soldiers are frightened. They are retreating. They are being scattered. They have fled for refuge without looking back. Terror is all around them,” says the LORD.
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28 What is going to happen to us? Our brothers have drained away our courage by describing people who are more numerous and taller than we are, and great cities whose defenses appear to be as high as heaven itself! Moreover, they said they saw Anakites there.”
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7 They charge like warriors; they scale walls like soldiers. Each one proceeds on his course; they do not alter their path.
- Lam 4:18-192 verses70%
18 צ(Tsade) Our enemies hunted us down at every step so that we could not walk about in our streets. Our end drew near, our days were numbered, for our end had come!
19 ק(Qof) Those who pursued us were swifter than eagles in the sky. They chased us over the mountains; they ambushed us in the wilderness.
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6 They will hear,‘Run! Save yourselves! Even if you must be like a lonely shrub in the wilderness!’
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25 Do not go out into the countryside. Do not travel on the roads. For the enemy is there with sword in hand. They are spreading terror everywhere.”
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3 Like fire they devour everything in their path; a flame blazes behind them. The land looks like the Garden of Eden before them, but behind them there is only a desolate wilderness– for nothing escapes them!
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25 Curses by Defeat and Deportation“The LORD will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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7 And he told the army,“Move ahead and march around the city, with armed troops going ahead of the ark of the LORD.”
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42 They retreated before the Israelites, taking the road to the wilderness. But the battle overtook them as men from the surrounding cities struck them down.
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5 When you hear the signal from the ram’s horn, have the whole army give a loud battle cry. Then the city wall will collapse and the warriors should charge straight ahead.”
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8 O Lord, what can I say now that Israel has retreated before its enemies?