Verse 2
Joshua 8:2
Young's Literal Translation
2
and thou hast done to Ai and to her king as thou hast done to Jericho and to her king; only, its spoil and its cattle ye spoil for yourselves; set for thee an ambush for the city at its rear.'
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/עָשִׂ֨יתָ לָ/עַ֜י וּ/לְ/מַלְכָּ֗/הּ כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֨ר עָשִׂ֤יתָ לִֽ/ירִיחוֹ֙ וּ/לְ/מַלְכָּ֔/הּ רַק שְׁלָלָ֥/הּ וּ/בְהֶמְתָּ֖/הּ תָּבֹ֣זּוּ לָ/כֶ֑ם שִׂים לְ/ךָ֥ אֹרֵ֛ב לָ/עִ֖יר מֵ/אַחֲרֶֽי/הָ
English Translation
And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king; only its spoil and its livestock you shall plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.
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Chapter 8 Context
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And Jehovah saith unto Joshua, 'Fear not, nor be affrighted, take with thee all the people of war, a...
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and thou hast done to Ai and to her king as thou hast done to Jericho and to her king; only, its spo...
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And Joshua riseth, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai, and Joshua chooseth thirty thousand me...
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and commandeth them, saying, 'See, ye are liers in wait against the city, at the rear of the city, y...
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and I and all the people who [are] with me draw near unto the city, and it hath come to pass when th...
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and they have come out after us till we have drawn them out of the city, for they say, They are flee...
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and ye rise from the ambush, and have occupied the city, and Jehovah your God (Elohim) hath given it...
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and it hath been, when ye capture the city, ye burn the city with fire, according to the word of Jeh...
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And Joshua sendeth them away, and they go unto the ambush, and abide between Bethel and Ai, on the w...
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And Joshua riseth early in the morning, and inspecteth the people, and goeth up, he and the elders o...
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and all the people of war who [are] with him have gone up, and draw nigh and come in over-against th...
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And he taketh about five thousand men, and setteth them an ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west...
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and they set the people, all the camp which [is] on the north of the city, and its rear on the west...
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And it cometh to pass, when the king of Ai seeth [it], that hasten, and rise early, and go out do th...
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And Joshua and all Israel [seem] stricken before them, and flee the way of the wilderness,
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and all the people who [are] in the city are called to pursue after them, and they pursue after Josh...
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and there hath not been left a man in Ai and Bethel who hath not gone out after Israel, and they lea...
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And Jehovah saith unto Joshua, 'Stretch out with the javelin which [is] in thy hand towards Ai, for...
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and the ambush hath risen [with] haste, out of its place, and they run at the stretching out of his...
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And the men of Ai look behind them, and see, and lo, the smoke of the city hath gone up unto the hea...
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and Joshua and all Israel have seen that the ambush hath captured the city, and that the smoke of th...
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and these have come out from the city to meet them, and they are in the midst of Israel, some on thi...
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and the king of Ai they caught alive, and bring him near unto Joshua.
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And it cometh to pass, at Israel's finishing to slay all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the...
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and all who fall during the day, of men and of women, are twelve thousand -- all men of Ai.
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And Joshua hath not brought back his hand which he stretched out with the javelin till that he hath...
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only, the cattle and the spoil of that city have Israel spoiled for themselves, according to the wor...
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And Joshua burneth Ai, and maketh it a heap age-during -- a desolation unto this day;
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and the king of Ai he hath hanged on the tree till even-time, and at the going in of the sun hath Jo...
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Then doth Joshua build an altar to Jehovah, God (Elohim) of Israel, in mount Ebal,
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as Moses, servant of Jehovah, commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law...
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and he writeth there on the stones the copy of the law of Moses, which he hath written in the presen...
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And all Israel, and its elders, and authorities, and its judges, are standing on this side and on th...
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And afterwards he hath proclaimed all the words of the law, the blessing and the reviling, according...
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there hath not been a thing of all that Moses commanded which Joshua hath not proclaimed before all...
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