Joshua 8:6 - Easy To Read Version

⁶ Those men will chase us away from the city. They will think that we are running away from them like we did before. So we will run away.

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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 think that the people of Israel are lost in the desert. And he will think that the people will have no place to go.

Exodus 15:9

“The enemy said, ‘I’ll chase them and catch them. I’ll take all their riches. I’ll take it all with my sword. I’ll take everything for myself.’

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Sometimes people are not immediately punished for the bad things they do. Their punishment is slow to come. And that makes other people want to do bad things too.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

A person never knows what will happen to him next. He is like a fish caught in a net—the fish does not know what will happen. He is like a bird caught in a trap—the bird does not know what will happen. In the same way, a person is trapped by the bad things that suddenly happen to him.

Joshua 8:5

I will lead the men with me to march toward the city. The men in the city will come out to fight against us. We will turn and run away from them, like we did before.

Joshua 8:7

Then you should come out of your hiding place and take control of the city. The Lord your God will give you the power to win.

Judges 20:32

The men of Benjamin said, “We are winning like before!”