Joshua 8:15 - English Standard Version 2016 And Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten before them and fled in the direction of the wilderness. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten by them, and fled toward the wilderness. American Standard Version (1901) And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. Common English Bible Then Joshua and all Israel let themselves be beaten before them. They fled in the direction of the desert. Catholic Public Domain Version Yet truly, Joshua, and all of Israel, withdrew from the place, pretending to be afraid, and fleeing along the way of the wilderness. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But Josue, and all Israel gave back, making as if they were afraid, and fleeing by the way of the wilderness. |
The allotment of the people of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel.
On the north side their boundary began at the Jordan. Then the boundary goes up to the shoulder north of Jericho, then up through the hill country westward, and it ends at the wilderness of Beth-aven.
And as soon as the king of Ai saw this, he and all his people, the men of the city, hurried and went out early to the appointed place toward the Arabah to meet Israel in battle. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
So the people of Benjamin saw that they were defeated. The men of Israel gave ground to Benjamin, because they trusted the men in ambush whom they had set against Gibeah.
Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel in the direction of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them. And those who came out of the cities were destroying them in their midst.