Joshua 8:12

World English Bible (2000)

He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

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  • Josh 8:2-3 : 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." 3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.

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  • Josh 8:7-11
    5 verses
    88%

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

    8It 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."

    9Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.

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

    11All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up, and drew near, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.

  • Josh 8:13-27
    15 verses
    88%

    13So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

    14It happened, 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 the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

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

    16All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

    17There 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.

    18Yahweh said to Joshua, "Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand." Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

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

    20When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.

    21When 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 killed the men of Ai.

    22The 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.

    23They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.

    24It happened, when Israel had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.

    25All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

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

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

  • Josh 8:1-5
    5 verses
    85%

    1Yahweh 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.

    2You 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."

    3So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.

    4He 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.

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

  • Josh 7:2-5
    4 verses
    79%

    2Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, "Go up and spy out the land." The men went up and spied out Ai.

    3They returned to Joshua, and said to him, "Don't let all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don't make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them."

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

    5The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them, and they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.

  • Josh 9:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2that they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.

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

  • Josh 5:13
    71%

    13It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him, and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?"

  • Judg 20:29
    71%

    29Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.

  • Josh 11:7
    71%

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

  • 2 Chr 13:13
    71%

    13But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambush was behind them.

  • Judg 9:32
    70%

    32Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field:

  • Josh 11:5
    70%

    5All these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.

  • Josh 6:7
    70%

    7They said to the people, "Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before Yahweh's ark."

  • Josh 10:9
    70%

    9Joshua therefore came on them suddenly. He went up from Gilgal all night.

  • Josh 4:13
    70%

    13About forty thousand men, ready and armed for war passed over before Yahweh to battle, to the plains of Jericho.

  • Josh 10:5
    69%

    5Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their armies, and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it.

  • Josh 12:9
    69%

    9the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;