Joshua 8:18

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh 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.

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  • Josh 8:26 : 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.
  • 1 Sam 17:6 : 6 He had brass shin armor on his legs, and a javelin of brass between his shoulders.
  • 1 Sam 17:41 : 41 The Philistine came on and drew near to David; and the man who bore the shield went before him.
  • 1 Sam 17:45 : 45 Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
  • Job 15:25 : 25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;
  • Job 39:23 : 23 The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.
  • Exod 8:5 : 5 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch forth your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.'"
  • Exod 14:16 : 16 Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.
  • Exod 17:9-9 : 9 Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God's rod in my hand." 10 So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 It happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.
  • Josh 8:7 : 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.

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  • Josh 8:26-29
    4 verses
    85%

    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.

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

    28 So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.

    29 He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at the sundown Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.

  • Josh 8:19-24
    6 verses
    82%

    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.

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

    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 8:1-4
    4 verses
    79%

    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."

    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.

    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.

  • Josh 8:7-17
    11 verses
    75%

    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."

    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.

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

    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 7:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2 Joshua 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.

    3 They 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."

  • Josh 6:2
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    2 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor.

  • Josh 5:13
    72%

    13 It 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?"

  • Josh 10:8
    70%

    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 10:30
    70%

    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.

  • Josh 11:8
    69%

    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 6:7
    69%

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

  • Josh 10:19
    69%

    19 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."

  • Josh 4:15
    69%

    15 Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

  • Exod 17:13
    69%

    13 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

  • Josh 6:16
    68%

    16 It happened at the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, "Shout, for Yahweh has given you the city!

  • Num 27:18
    68%

    18 Yahweh said to Moses, "Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him;

  • Josh 20:1
    68%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

  • Josh 7:23
    67%

    23 They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before Yahweh.