Verse 3
Joshua 8:3
Geneva Bible
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Then Ioshua arose, and all the men of warre to goe vp against Ai: and Ioshua chose out thirtie thousand strong men, and valiant, and sent them away by night.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יָּ֧קָם יְהוֹשֻׁ֛עַ וְ/כָל עַ֥ם הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה לַ/עֲל֣וֹת הָ/עָ֑י וַ/יִּבְחַ֣ר יְ֠הוֹשֻׁעַ שְׁלֹשִׁ֨ים אֶ֤לֶף אִישׁ֙ גִּבּוֹרֵ֣י הַ/חַ֔יִל וַ/יִּשְׁלָחֵ֖/ם לָֽיְלָה
English Translation
And Joshua rose up, and all the people of the war, to go up against Ai. And Joshua chose thirty thousand mighty men of valor and sent them at night.
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Chapter 8 Context
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After, the Lord saide vnto Ioshua, Feare not, neither bee thou faint hearted: take all the men of wa...
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And thou shalt doe to Ai and to the King thereof, as thou didst vnto Iericho and to the King thereof...
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Then Ioshua arose, and all the men of warre to goe vp against Ai: and Ioshua chose out thirtie thous...
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And he commanded them, saying, Behold, yee shall lye in waite against the citie on the backeside of...
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And I and all the people that are with me, will approche vnto the citie: and when they shall come ou...
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For they wil come out after vs, till we haue brought them out of the citie: for they will say, They...
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Then you shall rise vp from lying in waite and destroy the citie: for the Lord your God (Elohim) wil...
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8
And when ye haue taken the citie, ye shall set it on fire: according to the commandement of the Lord...
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Ioshua then sent them foorth, and they went to lye in waite, and abode betweene Beth-el and Ai, on t...
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And Ioshua rose vp early in the morning, and nombred the people: and he and the Elders of Israel wen...
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Also all the men of warre that were with him went vp and drewe neere, and came against the citie, an...
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And hee tooke about fiue thousande men, and set them to lye in waite betweene Beth-el and Ai, on the...
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And the people set all the hoste that was on the Northside against the citie, and the liers in waite...
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And when the King of Ai sawe it, then the men of the citie hasted and rose vp earely, and went out a...
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Then Ioshua and all Israel as beaten before them, fled by the way of the wildernes.
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And all the people of the citie were called together, to pursue after them: and they pursued after I...
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So that there was not a man left in Ai, nor in Beth-el, that went not out after Israel: and they lef...
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Then the Lord said vnto Ioshua, Stretch out the speare that is in thine hande, towarde Ai: for I wil...
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And they that lay in wait, arose quickly out of their place, and ranne as soone as he had stretched...
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And the men of Ai looked behinde them, and sawe it: for loe, the smoke of the citie ascended vp to h...
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When Ioshua and all Israel sawe that they that lay in waite, had taken the citie, and that the smoke...
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Also the other issued out of the citie against them: so were they in the middes of Israel, these bei...
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And the King of Ai they tooke aliue, and brought him to Ioshua.
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And when Israel had made an ende of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the fielde, that is, in the...
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And all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelue thousande, euen all the men of Ai.
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For Ioshua drewe not his hande backe againe which he had stretched out with the speare, vntill hee h...
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Onely the cattell and the spoyle of this citie, Israel tooke for a praye vnto themselues, according...
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And Ioshua burnt Ai, and made it an heape for euer, and a wildernes vnto this day.
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And the King of Ai hee hanged on a tree, vnto the euening. And as soone as the sunne was down, Ioshu...
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30
Then Ioshua built an altar vnto the Lord God (Elohim) of Israel, in mount Ebal,
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As Moses the seruant of the Lord had commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the booke...
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Also he wrote there vpon the stones, a rehearsall of the Lawe of Moses, which he wrote in the presen...
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And all Israel (and their Elders, and officers and their iudges stoode on this side of the Arke, and...
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Then afterwarde hee read all the wordes of the Lawe, the blessings and cursings, according to all th...
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There was not a worde of all that Moses had commanded, which Ioshua read not before all the Congrega...
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