Joshua 10:19

World English Bible (2000)

but don't stay. Pursue your enemies, and them from the rear. Don't allow them to enter into their cities; for Yahweh your God has delivered them into your hand."

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  • Josh 10:20 : 20 It happened, when Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,
  • 2 Sam 17:13 : 13 Moreover, if he be gone into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn't one small stone found there."
  • 2 Sam 20:6 : 6 David said to Abishai, "Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than did Absalom. Take your lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight."
  • Ps 18:37-41 : 37 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed. 38 I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet. 39 For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. 40 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me. 41 They cried, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.
  • Isa 9:14-15 : 14 Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day. 15 The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.
  • Jer 8:14 : 14 Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
  • Jer 48:10 : 10 Cursed is he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.

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  • 20 It happened, when Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

  • 25 Joshua said to them, "Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for Yahweh will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight."

  • 8 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Don't fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands. Not a man of them will stand before you."

  • Josh 11:6-9
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    6 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Don't be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire."

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

    8 Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward. They struck them until they left them none remaining.

    9 Joshua did to them as Yahweh told him. He hamstrung their horses and burnt their chariots with fire.

  • 19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.

  • Lev 26:7-8
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    7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

    8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

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    13 and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

    14 but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.

    15 Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

  • 3 Yahweh your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them: [and] Joshua, he shall go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.

  • 22 You shall not fear them; for Yahweh your God, he it is who fights for you."

  • Josh 8:7-8
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    7 and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.

    8 It shall be, when you have seized on the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to the word of Yahweh. Behold, I have commanded you."

  • Josh 23:9-10
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    9 "For Yahweh has driven great and strong nations out from before you. But as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.

    10 One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.

  • 3 You have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is Yahweh your God who has fought for you.

  • Josh 8:16-17
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    16 All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

    17 There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who didn't go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.

  • 10 Yahweh confused them before Israel, and he killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah.

  • 28 He said to them, "Follow me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand." They followed him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn't allow any man to pass over.

  • Num 14:42-43
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    42 Don't go up, for Yahweh isn't among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies.

    43 For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned back from following Yahweh, therefore Yahweh will not be with you."

  • 30 Yahweh delivered it also, with its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left none remaining in it. He did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

  • 40 So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, and the South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded.

  • 5 Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.

  • 26 For Joshua didn't draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

  • Deut 20:3-4
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    3 and shall tell them, "Hear, Israel, you draw near this day to battle against your enemies: don't let your heart faint; don't be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;

    4 for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you."

  • 4 He commanded them, saying, "Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don't go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

  • 22 The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

  • Josh 8:1-2
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    1 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.

    2 You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except its spoil and its livestock, you shall take for a plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it."

  • Josh 1:9-11
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    9 Haven't I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go."

    10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,

    11 "Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying, 'Prepare food; for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.'"

  • 39 But you shall fear Yahweh your God; and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies."

  • 23 So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.

  • 37 They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues: and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.

  • 17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;

  • 11 "'You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.

  • 19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took all in battle.

  • 15 until Yahweh has given your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they have also possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.'"

  • 5 Yahweh your God will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight. You shall possess their land, as Yahweh your God spoke to you.