Joshua 8:14 - Good News Translation (US Version)

¹⁴ When the king of Ai saw Joshua's men, he acted quickly. He and all his men went out toward the Jordan Valley to fight the Israelites at the same place as before, not knowing that he was about to be attacked from the rear.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ When the king [and people] of Ai saw it, they hastily rose early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle [at a time and place appointed] before the Arabah [plain]. But he did not know of the ambush against him behind the city.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he knew not that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ As soon as the king of Ai saw this, he and all his troops, the men of the city, hurried out early in the morning to meet Israel in battle. They moved out to the battleground on the slopes down toward the Jordan. He didn’t know that there was an ambush set against him behind the city.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ And when the king of Ai had seen this, he hurried in the morning, and he went out with the entire army of the city. And he arranged them in a line opposite the desert, not knowing that an ambush lay hidden behind his back.

Joshua 8:14 পৰস্পৰ সংযোগসমূহ

Matthew 24:39

yet they did not realize what was happening until the flood came and swept them all away. That is how it will be when the Son of Man comes.

2 Peter 2:3

In their greed these false teachers will make a profit out of telling you made-up stories. For a long time now their Judge has been ready, and their Destroyer has been wide awake!

Matthew 24:50

Then that servant's master will come back one day when the servant does not expect him and at a time he does not know.

Daniel 4:31

Before the words were out of his mouth, a voice spoke from heaven, “King Nebuchadnezzar, listen to what I say! Your royal power is now taken away from you.

Isaiah 19:13

The leaders of Zoan and Memphis are fools. They were supposed to lead the nation, but they have misled it.

Isaiah 19:11

The leaders of the city of Zoan are fools! Egypt's wisest people give stupid advice! How do they dare to tell the king that they are successors to the ancient scholars and kings?

Ecclesiastes 9:12

You never know when your time is coming. Like birds suddenly caught in a trap, like fish caught in a net, we are trapped at some evil moment when we least expect it.

Joshua 8:16

All the men in the city had been called together to go after them, and as they pursued Joshua, they kept getting farther away from the city.

Joshua 8:5

My men and I will approach the city. When the men of Ai come out against us, we will turn and run, just as we did the first time.

Deuteronomy 1:1

In this book are the words that Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they were in the wilderness east of the Jordan River. They were in the Jordan Valley near Suph, between the town of Paran on one side and the towns of Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab on the other. (

Joshua 8:13

The soldiers were arranged for battle with the main camp north of the city and the rest of the men to the west. Joshua spent the night in the valley.

Joshua 8:15

Joshua and his men pretended that they were retreating, and ran away toward the barren country.

Judges 20:37

These men ran quickly toward Gibeah; they spread out in the city and killed everyone there.