Joshua 7:2 - The Scriptures 2009

² Now Yehoshua sent men from Yeriḥo to Ai, which is beside Bĕyth Awen, on the east side of Bĕyth Ěl, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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. So the men went up and spied out Ai.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and spy out the land. And the men went up and spied out Ai.

Common English Bible

² Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven to the east of Bethel. He said to them, “Go up. Scout out the land.” So the men went up and scouted out Ai.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And when Joshua sent men from Jericho against Ai, which is beside Bethaven, toward the eastern region of the town of Bethel, he said to them, "Go up and explore the land." And they fulfilled his instruction, and they explored Ai.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And when Josue sent men from Jericho against Hai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of the town of Bethel, he said to them: Go up, and view the country. And they fulfilled his command, and viewed Hai.

Joshua 7:2 Cross References

Genesis 12:8

And from there he moved to the mountain east of Bĕyth Ěl, and he pitched his tent, with Bĕyth Ěl on the west and Ai on the east. And he built there a slaughter-place to יהוה, and called on the Name of יהוה.

Genesis 28:19

And he called the name of that place Bĕyth Ěl, however, the name of that city had been Luz previously.

1 Kings 12:29

And he set up one in Bĕyth Ěl, and the other he put in Dan.

Nehemiah 11:31

And the children of Binyamin: from Geḇa, Miḵmash, and Ayyah, and Bĕyth Ěl, and their villages;

Proverbs 20:18

By counsel plans are established; And by wise guidance wage a battle.

Proverbs 24:6

For by wise guidance you wage your own battle, And delivery is by a great counsellor.

Isaiah 10:28

He has come upon Ayath, he has passed Miḡron. At Miḵmash he stored his supplies.

Jeremiah 49:3

“Howl, O Ḥeshbon, for Ai is ravaged! Cry, daughters of Rabbah, gird on sackcloth! Lament and diligently search by the walls, for Malkam shall go into exile, with his priests and his heads.

Hosea 4:15

“Though you are a whore, Yisra’ĕl, let not Yehuḏah become guilty. Do not come up to Gilgal, nor go up to Bĕyth Awen, nor swear an oath, saying, ‘As יהוה lives!’

Matthew 10:16

“See, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Ephesians 5:15

See then that you walk exactly, not as unwise, but as wise,

Joshua 12:9

the sovereign of Yeriḥo, one; the sovereign of Ai, which is beside Bĕyth Ěl, one;

Joshua 18:12

And their border was on the north side from the Yardĕn, and the border went up to the side of Yeriḥo on the north, and went up through the mountains westward, and ended at the Wilderness of Bĕyth Awen.

Joshua 2:1

And Yehoshua son of Nun secretly sent out two men from Shittim to spy, saying, “Go, see the land, and Yeriḥo.” And they went, and came to the house of a woman, a whore, and her name was Raḥaḇ, and they lay down there.

Joshua 7:3

And they returned to Yehoshua and said to him, “Let not all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Do not make all the people toil up there, for the people of Ai are few.”

1 Samuel 13:5

And the Philistines gathered to fight Yisra’ĕl, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people as numerous as the sand on the seashore. And they came up and encamped in Miḵmash, east of Bĕyth Awen.

1 Samuel 14:23

Thus יהוה saved Yisra’ĕl that day, and the battle passed over to Bĕyth Awen.

1 Samuel 30:27

to those in Bĕyth Ěl, and to those in Ramoth of the South, and to those in Yattir,