Joshua 8:3 - Revised Standard Version CI

³ So Joshua arose, and all the fighting men, to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose thirty thousand mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai; [he] chose thirty thousand mighty men of strength and sent them forth by night.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night.

Common English Bible

³ So Joshua and the whole army got ready to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand brave soldiers. He sent them out by night.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And Joshua rose up, and the entire army of warriors with him, so that they might ascend against Ai. And he sent thirty thousand elect strong men in the night.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And Josue arose, and all the army of the fighting men with him, to go up against Hai. And he sent thirty thousand chosen valiant men in the night,

Joshua 8:3 Cross References

Exodus 17:9

And Moses said to Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out, fight with Amalek; tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.”

Matthew 24:39

and they did not know until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of man.

Matthew 24:50

the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know,

Matthew 25:6

But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’

1 Thessalonians 5:2

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

Joshua 10:7

So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.

Joshua 8:2

and you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king; only its spoil and its cattle you shall take as booty for yourselves; lay an ambush against the city, behind it.”

Joshua 8:4

And he commanded them, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it; do not go very far from the city, but hold yourselves all in readiness;

2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up.

Judges 9:32

Now therefore, go by night, you and the men that are with you, and lie in wait in the fields.