Joshua 8:6 - New Revised Standard Version

⁶ They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, ‘They are fleeing from us, as before.’ While we flee from them,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ (for they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Till we have drawn them from the city, for they will say, They are fleeing from us as before. So we will flee before them.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ and they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them;

Common English Bible

⁶ They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city. They will think, They are fleeing from us as before. So we will flee from them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ until, pursuing us, they are drawn away from the city. For they will think that we are fleeing as before.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Till they pursuing us be drawn farther from the city. For they will think that we flee as before.

Joshua 8:6 Cross References

Exodus 14:3

Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering aimlessly in the land; the wilderness has closed in on them.’

Exodus 15:9

The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.’

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the human heart is fully set to do evil.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For no one can anticipate the time of disaster. Like fish taken in a cruel net, and like birds caught in a snare, so mortals are snared at a time of calamity, when it suddenly falls upon them.

Joshua 8:5

I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. When they come out against us, as before, we shall flee from them.

Joshua 8:7

you shall rise up from the ambush and seize the city; for the Lord your God will give it into your hand.

Judges 20:32

The Benjaminites thought, “They are being routed before us, as previously.” But the Israelites said, “Let us retreat and draw them away from the city toward the roads.”