Joshua 8:15 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁵ 0 And the men of the city, that pursued after Josue, looking back and seeing the smoke of the city rise up to heaven, had no more power to flee this way or that way: especially as they that had counterfeited flight, end were going toward the wilderness, turned back most valiantly against them that pursued.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ 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

¹⁵ And Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten by them, and fled toward the wilderness.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Then Joshua and all Israel let themselves be beaten before them. They fled in the direction of the desert.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ Yet truly, Joshua, and all of Israel, withdrew from the place, pretending to be afraid, and fleeing along the way of the wilderness.

Joshua 8:15 Cross References

Joshua 18:12

7 Passing thence to the north, and going out to Ensemes, that is to say, the fountain of the sue:

Judges 20:36

1 They that before had made as if they fled, turning their faces stood bravely against them; which the children of Benjamin seeing, turned their backs,

Joshua 16:1

And the confines go out unto the sea: but Machmethath looketh to the north, and it goeth round the borders eastward into Thanath-selo: and passeth along on the east side to Janoe.

Joshua 15:61

And goeth down westward, by the border of Jephleti, unto the borders of Beth-horon the nether, and to Gazer :and the countries of it are ended by the great sea:

Joshua 8:14

9 And when he had lifted up his shield towards the city, the ambush that lay hid, rose up immediately: and going to the city, took it and set it on fire.

Judges 20:42

7 And there remained of all the number of Benjamin only six hundred men that were able to escape, and flee to the wilderness: and they abode in the rock Remmon four months.