Joshua 8:9 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁹ 4 And when the king of Hai saw this, he made haste in the morning, and went out with all the army of the city, and set it in battle array toward the desert, not knowing that there lay an ambush behind his back.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ So Joshua sent them forth, and they went to the place of ambush and remained between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua lodged that night among the people.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ And Joshua sent them forth; and they went to the ambushment, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.

Common English Bible

⁹ Joshua sent them off, and they went to set the ambush. They stayed between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. Joshua spent that night among the people.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And he sent them away, and they traveled to the place of the ambush, and they settled between Bethel and Ai, toward the western region of the city of Ai. But Joshua remained for that night in the midst of the people.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ And he sent them away, and they went on to the place of the ambush, and abode between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the city of Hai. But Josue stayed that night in the midst of the people.

Joshua 8:9 Cross References

Genesis 12:8

And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east; he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.

Genesis 32:21

2 And rising early he took his two wives, and his two handmaids, with his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of Jaboc.

Ezra 2:28

3 The children of Lod, Hadid and One, seven hundred twenty-five.

Nehemiah 7:32

7 The children of Led, of Hadid and One, seven hundred twenty-one.

Joshua 7:2

And Josue said: Alas, O Lord God, why wouldst thou bring this people over the river Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and to destroy us? would God, we had stayed beyond the Jordan as we began.

Joshua 8:10

5 But Josue, and all Israel gave back, making as if they were afraid, and fleeing by the way of the wilderness.

Joshua 8:12

7 And not one remained in the city of Hai and of Bethel, that did not pursue after Israel, leaving the towns open as they had rushed out,

Joshua 8:8

3 But all the rest of the army went in battle array on the north side, so that the last of that multitude reached to the west side of the city. So Josue went that night, and stood in the midst of the valley.

1 Samuel 30:27

And the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gelboe.