Joshua 8

¹And the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 1:9 Deut 1:21 Deut 7:18 Deut 31:8 Josh 6:2 Dan 2:37-38 Isa 43:2 Dan 4:35 Matt 8:26 Dan 2:21

²And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 20:14 2 Chr 20:22 Josh 6:21 Prov 13:22 2 Chr 13:13 Deut 3:2 Jer 17:11 Jer 51:12 Job 27:16-17 Josh 10:1

³So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Thess 5:2 Matt 24:39 Matt 24:50 Matt 25:6 2 Pet 3:10

⁴And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 20:29 1 Sam 15:2 1 Sam 15:5 Acts 23:21 Eccl 7:19 Eccl 9:16 Josh 8:16 Judg 20:33 Judg 20:36 Judg 9:25

⁵And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them, Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 7:5 Judg 20:31-33 Matt 10:16

⁶(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 8:11 Eccl 9:12 Exod 14:3 Exod 15:9 Judg 20:32

⁷Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the Lord your God will deliver it into your hand. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 21:30-31 2 Kgs 5:1 Josh 8:1

⁸And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the Lord shall ye do. See, I have commanded you. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 13:28 Josh 1:16 Josh 1:9 Josh 6:24 Josh 8:28 Judg 4:6

⁹Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Beth–el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ezra 2:28 Gen 12:8 Gen 32:21 Josh 7:2 Josh 8:12 Neh 7:32

¹⁰And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 22:3 Josh 3:1 Josh 6:12 Josh 7:16 Ps 119:60

¹¹And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai. Many Bible Versions Ask AI

¹²And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Beth–el and Ai, on the west side of the city. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 8:2-3

¹³And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 8:12 Josh 8:8

¹⁴And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Matt 24:39 1 Thess 5:1-3 2 Pet 2:3 Dan 4:31 Deut 1:1 Eccl 9:12 Isa 19:11 Isa 19:13 Josh 8:16 Josh 8:5

¹⁵And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 18:12 Josh 15:61 Josh 16:1 Judg 20:36

¹⁶And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 20:31 Ezek 38:11-22 Josh 8:5-6 Judg 20:36-39 Ps 9:16 Rev 16:14 Rev 19:19-21

¹⁷And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth–el, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 2:30 Isa 19:11-13 Job 5:13 Josh 11:20 Josh 8:24-25 Josh 8:3

¹⁸And the Lord said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 8:26 Job 15:25 1 Sam 17:41 1 Sam 17:45 1 Sam 17:6 Exod 14:16 Exod 17:9-12 Exod 8:5 Josh 8:7 Job 39:23

¹⁹And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire. Many Bible Versions Ask AI

²⁰And 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: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Amos 2:14-16 Gen 19:28 Isa 34:10 Job 11:20 Ps 48:5-6 Ps 76:5 Rev 18:9 Rev 19:3 Rev 6:15-17

²¹And 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 slew the men of Ai. Many Bible Versions Ask AI

²²And the other issued 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 smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 7:2 1 Thess 5:3 Job 20:5 Josh 10:28 Josh 11:11-12 Josh 6:21 Luke 17:26-30

²³And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 15:8 Josh 10:17 Josh 8:29 Rev 19:20

²⁴And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 11:10-14 Josh 10:30-41 Num 21:24

²⁵And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 20:16-18

²⁶For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 17:11-12 Josh 8:18

²⁷Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the Lord which he commanded Joshua. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 8:2 Josh 11:4 Matt 20:15 Num 31:22 Num 31:26 Ps 50:10

²⁸And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 13:16 2 Kgs 19:25 Isa 17:1 Isa 25:2 Jer 49:2 Jer 50:26 Jer 9:11 Josh 4:9 Mic 3:12

²⁹And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 18:17 Deut 21:22-23 Josh 7:26 Acts 12:23 Esth 7:10 Josh 10:26-28 Josh 10:30 Josh 10:33 Ps 107:40 Ps 110:5

³⁰Then Joshua built an altar unto the Lord God of Israel in mount Ebal, Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 27:4-6 Exod 20:24 Gen 12:7-8 Gen 8:20

³¹As Moses the servant of the Lord commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 27:5-7 Exod 20:24-25 1 Kgs 18:31-32 Exod 18:12 Exod 24:5 Josh 1:8 Josh 8:34-35 2 Chr 25:4 2 Chr 35:12 2 Kgs 14:6

³²And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 27:2-3 Deut 27:8

³³And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 11:29 Deut 31:12 Deut 27:11-14 Deut 31:9 Deut 31:25 Exod 12:49 Josh 24:1 Josh 3:3 Josh 4:18 Josh 8:30-32

³⁴And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Neh 8:2-3 Deut 31:10-12 Neh 13:1 Deut 27:14-28:68 Deut 29:20-21 Deut 30:15-20 Josh 1:8 Lev 26:1-46 Neh 9:3

³⁵There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 31:12 Neh 8:2 Jer 26:2 Acts 21:5 Deut 29:11 Ezra 10:1 Joel 2:16 Mark 10:14 Acts 20:27 Deut 4:2

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