Joshua 8:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ And when you have taken the city, you shall set the city on fire, doing as the Lord has bidden; see, I have commanded you.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ When you have taken the city, you shall set it afire; as the Lord commanded, you shall do. See, I have commanded you.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And it shall be, when ye have seized upon the city, that ye shall set the city on fire; according to the word of Jehovah shall ye do: see, I have commanded you.

Common English Bible

⁸ As soon as you seize the city, set it on fire. Act according to the LORD’s word. Indeed, I have given you an order!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And when you have seized it, set it on fire. And you shall do all that I have ordered."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And when you shall have taken it, set it on fire: and you shall do all things so as I have commanded.

Joshua 8:8 Cross References

2 Samuel 13:28

Then Absalom commanded his servants, “Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Fear not; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.”

Deuteronomy 20:16

But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes,

Joshua 1:16

And they answered Joshua, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.

Joshua 1:9

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; be not frightened, neither be dismayed; for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Joshua 6:24

And they burned the city with fire, and all within it; only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.

Joshua 8:13

So they stationed the forces, the main encampment which was north of the city and its rear guard west of the city. But Joshua spent that night in the valley.

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 8:22

And the others came forth from the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side; and Israel smote them, until there was left none that survived or escaped.

Joshua 8:28

So Joshua burned Ai, and made it for ever a heap of ruins, as it is to this day.

Joshua 8:7

then you shall rise up from the ambush, and seize the city; for the Lord your God will give it into your hand.

Joshua 8:9

So Joshua sent them forth; and they went to the place of ambush, and lay between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai; but Joshua spent that night among the people.

Judges 4:6

She sent and summoned Barak the son of Abino-am from Kedesh in Naphtali, and said to him, “The Lord, the God of Israel, commands you, ‘Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking ten thousand from the tribe of Naphtali and the tribe of Zebulun.