Joshua 8:15 - The Scriptures 2009

And Yehoshua and all Yisra’ĕl let themselves be beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

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King 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.

Joshua 8:15 Cross References

Joshua 15:61

In the wilderness: Bĕyth Araḇah, Middin, and Seḵaḵah,

Joshua 16:1

And the lot for the children of Yosĕph went out from the Yardĕn, by Yeriḥo, to the waters of Yeriḥo on the east, to the wilderness going up from Yeriḥo through the mountains to Bĕyth Ěl,

Joshua 18:12

And their border was on the north side from the Yardĕn, and the border went up to the side of Yeriḥo on the north, and went up through the mountains westward, and ended at the Wilderness of Bĕyth Awen.

Joshua 8:14

And it came to be, when the sovereign of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hastened and rose up early and went out against Yisra’ĕl to battle, he and all his people, at an appointed place before the desert plain. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

Judges 20:36

And the children of Binyamin saw that they were smitten. And the men of Yisra’ĕl had given ground to the Binyamites, because they trusted in the ambush that they had set against Giḇ‛ah,

Judges 20:42

And they turned their backs before the men of Yisra’ĕl toward the way of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, while those who had come out of the cities were destroying them in their midst.