Joshua 8:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and they have come out after us till we have drawn them out of the city, for they say, They are fleeing before us as at the first, and we have fled before them,

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  • Exod 14:3 : 3 and Pharaoh hath said of the sons of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut upon them;
  • Exod 15:9 : 9 The enemy said, I pursue, I overtake; I apportion spoil; Filled is my soul with them; I draw out my sword; My hand destroyeth them: --
  • Judg 20:32 : 32 And the sons of Benjamin say, `They are smitten before us as at the beginning;' but the sons of Israel said, `Let us flee, and draw them away out of the city, unto the highways.'
  • Eccl 8:11 : 11 Because sentence hath not been done `on' an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil.
  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these `are' the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.

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    4and commandeth them, saying, `See, ye are liers in wait against the city, at the rear of the city, ye go not very far off from the city, and all of you have been prepared,

    5and I and all the people who `are' with me draw near unto the city, and it hath come to pass when they come out to meet us as at the first, and we have fled before them,

  • Josh 8:15-17
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    15And Joshua and all Israel `seem' stricken before them, and flee the way of the wilderness,

    16and all the people who `are' in the city are called to pursue after them, and they pursue after Joshua, and are drawn away out of the city,

    17and there hath not been left a man in Ai and Bethel who hath not gone out after Israel, and they leave the city open, and pursue after Israel.

  • Josh 8:7
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    7and ye rise from the ambush, and have occupied the city, and Jehovah your God hath given it into your hand;

  • Judg 20:32
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    32And the sons of Benjamin say, `They are smitten before us as at the beginning;' but the sons of Israel said, `Let us flee, and draw them away out of the city, unto the highways.'

  • Isa 30:16-17
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    16And ye say, No, for on a horse we flee? Therefore ye flee, And on the swift we ride! Therefore swift are your pursuers.

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  • 1 Sam 14:9-10
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    9if thus they say unto us, `Stand still till we have come unto you,' then we have stood in our place, and do not go up unto them;

    10and if thus they say, `Come up against us,' then we have gone up, for Jehovah hath given them into our hand, and this to us `is' the sign.

  • Josh 8:19-20
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    19and the ambush hath risen `with' haste, out of its place, and they run at the stretching out of his hand, and go into the city, and capture it, and hasten, and burn the city with fire.

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  • 1 Chr 19:14
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    14And Joab draweth nigh, and the people who `are' with him, before Aram to battle, and they flee from his face;

  • Num 32:16-17
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    16And they come nigh unto him, and say, `Folds for the flock we build for our cattle here, and cities for our infants;

    17and we -- we are armed hasting before the sons of Israel till that we have brought them in unto their place; and our infants have dwelt in the cities of defence because of the inhabitants of the land;

  • Neh 4:11-12
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    11And our adversaries say, `They do not know, nor see, till that we come in to their midst, and have slain them, and caused the work to cease.'

    12And it cometh to pass, when the Jews have come who are dwelling near them, that they say to us ten times from all the places whither ye return -- `they are' against us.

  • 2 Sam 10:13
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    13And Joab draweth nigh, and the people who `are' with him, to battle against Aram, and they flee from his presence;

  • 2 Kgs 7:7
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    7And they rise and flee in the twilight, and forsake their tents, and their horses, and their asses -- the camp as it `is' -- and flee for their life.

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  • Josh 8:22
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    22and these have come out from the city to meet them, and they are in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that, and they smite them till he hath not left to them a remnant and escaped one;

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    4if we have said, We go in to the city, then the famine `is' in the city, and we have died there; and if we have sat here, then we have died; and now, come and we fall unto the camp of Aram; if they keep us alive, we live, and if they put us to death -- we have died.'

  • Lev 26:7-8
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    7`And ye have pursued your enemies, and they have fallen before you by the sword;

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  • Isa 21:15
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    15For from the face of destructions they fled, From the face of a stretched-out sword, And from the face of a trodden bow, And from the face of the grievousness of battle.

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    28whither are we going up? our brethren have melted our heart, saying, A people greater and taller than we, cities great and fenced to heaven, and also sons of Anakim -- we have seen there.

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    18They have hunted our steps from going in our broad-places, Near hath been our end, fulfilled our days, For come hath our end.

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    6Flee ye, deliver yourselves, Ye are as a naked thing in a wilderness.

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