Joshua 8:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“with these orders: “Pay attention. You are to lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it. All of you must be ready.”
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“with these orders: “Pay attention. You are to lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it. All of you must be ready.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And 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:”
King James Version · Public Domain“And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city; go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and 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,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Joshua 8:4 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Joshua 8:16Then all the men of Ai were summoned to pursue them, and they followed Joshua and were drawn away from the city.
- Judges 9:25The leaders of Shechem set up an ambush against Abimelech on the hilltops, and they robbed all who passed by them on the road. So this was reported to Abimelech.
- Judges 9:32Now then, tonight you and the people with you are to come and lie in wait in the fields.
- Judges 20:29So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.
- Judges 20:33So all the men of Israel got up from their places and arrayed themselves at Baal-tamar, and the Israelites in ambush charged from their positions west of Gibeah.
- Judges 20:36Then the Benjamites realized they had been defeated. Now the men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin because they were relying on the ambush they had set against Gibeah.
- 1 Samuel 15:2This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I witnessed what the Amalekites did to the Israelites when they ambushed them on their way up from Egypt.
- 1 Samuel 15:5Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait in the valley.
- 2 Kings 7:12So the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving, so they have left the camp to hide in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and enter the city.’”
- Ecclesiastes 7:19Wisdom makes the wise man stronger than ten rulers in a city.
- Ecclesiastes 9:16And I said, “Wisdom is better than strength, but the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heeded.”
- Acts 23:21Do not let them persuade you, because more than forty men are waiting to ambush him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him; they are ready now, awaiting your consent.”
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