Joshua 8:5

Webster's Bible (1833)

and 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;

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  • Josh 7:5 : 5 The men of Ai struck of them about thirty-six men; and they chased them [from] before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent; and the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
  • Judg 20:31-33 : 31 The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel. 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. 33 All the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar: and the liers-in-wait of Israel broke forth out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.
  • Matt 10:16 : 16 "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

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  • Josh 8:6-7
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    92%

    6and they will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them;

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

  • Josh 8:11-17
    7 verses
    77%

    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.

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

    13So they set the people, even all the host who was on the north of the city, and their liers-in-wait who were 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: and they pursued after 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: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

  • Judg 20:32
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    32The 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 8:4
    76%

    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 be all ready:

  • 1 Sam 14:8-10
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    75%

    8Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will disclose ourselves to them.

    9If they say thus to us, Wait until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up to them.

    10But if they say thus, Come up to us; then we will go up; for Yahweh has delivered them into our hand: and this shall be the sign to us.

  • 2 Sam 10:13
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    13So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.

  • 1 Chr 19:13-14
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    13Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God: and Yahweh do that which seems him good.

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

  • Num 32:17
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    17but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

  • Neh 4:12
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    12It happened that when the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, You must return to us.

  • 2 Sam 18:3
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    3But the people said, You shall not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but you are worth ten thousand of us; therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.

  • Josh 8:19-20
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    72%

    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; and 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: and the people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.

  • 2 Kgs 7:4
    72%

    4If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall to the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

  • 2 Sam 15:14
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    14David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for else none of us shall escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.

  • 2 Sam 17:12
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    12So shall we come on him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him we will not leave so much as one.

  • Isa 30:17
    71%

    17One thousand [shall flee] at the threat of one; at the threat of five shall you flee: until you be left as a beacon on the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill.

  • Josh 6:5
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    5It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him.

  • Josh 6:7
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    7They said to the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let the armed men pass on before the ark of Yahweh.

  • Josh 2:16
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    16She said to them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light on you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may you go your way.

  • Zech 8:21
    71%

    21and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, 'Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of Hosts. I will go also.'

  • Deut 1:28
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    28Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

  • Josh 10:4
    71%

    4Come up to me, and help me, and let us strike Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.

  • Judg 20:8-9
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    8All the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn to his house.

    9But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: [we will go up] against it by lot;

  • 2 Kgs 25:4
    71%

    4Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and [the king] went by the way of the Arabah.

  • Deut 1:22
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    22You came near to me everyone of you, and said, Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.

  • Deut 1:41
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    41Then you answered and said to me, We have sinned against Yahweh, we will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us. You girded on every man his weapons of war, and were forward to go up into the hill-country.

  • Josh 8:22
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    22The others came forth out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

  • Deut 20:8
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    8The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart.

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    8and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."

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    25Don't go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.

  • 2 Kgs 6:15
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    15When the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, a host with horses and chariots was round about the city. His servant said to him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?

  • Jer 35:11
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    11But it happened, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we dwell at Jerusalem.