Joshua 8:9 - Revised Standard Version

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.

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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

Thence he removed to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.

Genesis 32:21

So the present passed on before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp.

Ezra 2:28

The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred and twenty-three.

Nehemiah 7:32

The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred and twenty-three.

Joshua 7:2

Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai.

Joshua 8:10

And Joshua arose early in the morning and mustered the people, and went up, with the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

Joshua 8:12

And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

Joshua 8:8

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.”

1 Samuel 30:27

it was for those in Bethel, in Ramoth of the Negeb, in Jattir,