Verse 22
Joshua 8:22
Bible in Basic English
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Then the other force came out of the town against them, so that they were being attacked on this side and on that: and Israel overcame them and let not one of them get away with his life.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/אֵ֨לֶּה יָצְא֤וּ מִן הָ/עִיר֙ לִ/קְרָאתָ֔/ם וַ/יִּֽהְי֤וּ לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ בַּ/תָּ֔וֶךְ אֵ֥לֶּה מִ/זֶּ֖ה וְ/אֵ֣לֶּה מִ/זֶּ֑ה וַ/יַּכּ֣וּ אוֹתָ֔/ם עַד בִּלְתִּ֥י הִשְׁאִֽיר ל֖/וֹ שָׂרִ֥יד וּ/פָלִֽיט
English Translation
And these came out from the city to meet them, and they were for Israel within these and those, and they struck them until they left not a survivor or fugitive.
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Chapter 8 Context
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Then the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear and do not be troubled: take with you all the fighting-me...
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And you are to do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king: but their goods and their c...
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So Joshua and the fighting-men got ready to go up against Ai; and Joshua took thirty thousand men of...
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And he gave them their orders, saying, Go and take up your position secretly at the back of the town...
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And I and all the people with me will come near the town, and when they come out against us as they...
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And they will come out after us, till we have got them away from the town; for they will say, They h...
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Then you will get up from your secret position and take the town, for the Lord your God (Elohim) wil...
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And when you have taken the town, put fire to it, as the Lord has said: see, I have given you your o...
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So Joshua sent them out: and they took up a secret position between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side...
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10
And early in the morning Joshua got up, and put the people in order, and he and the chiefs of Israel...
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And all the fighting-men who were with him went up and came near the town, and took up a position on...
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And taking about five thousand men, he put them in position for a surprise attack on the west side o...
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So all the people were in their places, the army on the north side of the town and the secret force...
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14
Now when the king of Ai saw it, he got up quickly and went out to war against Israel, he and all his...
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15
Then Joshua and all Israel, acting as if they were overcome before them, went in flight by way of th...
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And all the people in Ai came together to go after them; and they went after Joshua, moving away fro...
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There was not a man in Ai and Beth-el who did not go out after Israel; and the town was open and unw...
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And the Lord said to Joshua, Let your spear be stretched out against Ai; for I will give it into you...
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19
Then the secret force came quickly from their place, and running forward when they saw his hand stre...
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Then the men of Ai, looking back, saw the smoke of the town going up to heaven, and were unable to g...
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21
And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the town had been taken by the surprise attack, and that the...
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22
Then the other force came out of the town against them, so that they were being attacked on this sid...
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But the king of Ai they made prisoner, and took him to Joshua.
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Then, after the destruction of all the people of Ai in the field and in the waste land where they we...
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On that day twelve thousand were put to death, men and women, all the people of Ai.
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For Joshua did not take back his hand with the outstretched spear till the destruction of the people...
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But the cattle and the goods from that town, Israel took for themselves, as the Lord had given order...
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So Joshua gave Ai to the flames, and made it a waste mass of stones for ever, as it is to this day.
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And he put the king of Ai to death, hanging him on a tree till evening: and when the sun went down,...
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Then Joshua put up an altar to the Lord, the God (Elohim) of Israel, in Mount Ebal,
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In the way ordered by Moses, the servant of the Lord, as it is recorded in the book of the law of Mo...
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And he made there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, writing it before the eyes of the childr...
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And all Israel, those who were Israelites by birth, as well as the men from other lands living with...
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And after, he gave them all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, as it is all recorded...
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Reading to all the meeting of Israel, with the women and the children and the men from other lands w...
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