Joshua 8:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“They will pursue us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘The Israelites are running away from us as they did before.’ So as we flee from them,”
A short, plain-language explanation of Joshua 8:6 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“They will pursue us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘The Israelites are running away from us as they did before.’ So as we flee from them,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“(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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“and they will come out after us, till 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;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Joshua 8:6 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 14:3For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.’
- Exodus 15:9The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’
- Judges 20:32“We are defeating them as before,” said the Benjamites. But the Israelites said, “Let us retreat and draw them away from the city onto the roads.”
- Ecclesiastes 8:11When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
- Ecclesiastes 9:12For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).