Joshua 8:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So Joshua and the whole army set out to attack Ai. Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out at night”
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“So Joshua and the whole army set out to attack Ai. Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out at night”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“So 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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And Joshua riseth, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai, and Joshua chooseth thirty thousand men, mighty ones of valour, and sendeth them away by night,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Joshua 8:3 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 17:9So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with the staff of God in my hand.”
- Joshua 10:7So Joshua and his whole army, including all the mighty men of valor, came from Gilgal.
- Judges 9:32Now then, tonight you and the people with you are to come and lie in wait in the fields.
- Matthew 24:39And they were oblivious, until the flood came and swept them all away. So will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.
- Matthew 24:50The master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not anticipate.
- Matthew 25:6At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’
- 1 Thessalonians 5:2For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
- 2 Peter 3:10But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare.
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