Joshua 8:15

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 18:12 : 12 Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward. It ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven.
  • Judg 20:36 : 36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; for the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah.
  • Josh 15:61 : 61 In the wilderness, Beth Arabah, Middin, Secacah,
  • Josh 16:1 : 1 The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 8:16-17
    2 verses
    83%

    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.

  • Josh 8:19-22
    4 verses
    79%

    19 The 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.

    20 When 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.

    21 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 killed the men of Ai.

    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 8:4-6
    3 verses
    79%

    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.

    5 I, 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.

    6 They will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, 'They flee before us, like the first time.' So we will flee before them,

  • Josh 8:9-14
    6 verses
    78%

    9 Joshua 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.

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

    11 All 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.

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

    13 So 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.

    14 It 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.

  • Josh 11:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Josh 8:24
    74%

    24 It 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.

  • Josh 7:8
    74%

    8 Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!

  • Josh 9:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • Josh 2:24
    74%

    24 They said to Joshua, "Truly Yahweh has delivered into our hands all the land. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us."

  • Judg 20:42
    74%

    42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in its midst.

  • Josh 10:15
    73%

    15 Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.

  • 1 Chr 19:14
    73%

    14 So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.

  • 2 Chr 13:16
    73%

    16 The children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their hand.

  • Josh 5:1
    73%

    1 It happened, when all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how that Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we had passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.

  • Judg 20:32
    73%

    32 The children of Benjamin said, "They are struck down before us, as at the first." But the children of Israel said, "Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways."

  • Josh 9:24
    73%

    24 They answered Joshua, and said, "Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

  • Josh 10:8-10
    3 verses
    73%

    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."

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

    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.

  • Josh 8:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    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 7:4
    72%

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

  • Josh 8:26
    72%

    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.