Joshua 8:14 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁴ So it came to pass when the king of Ai saw this, the men of the city hurried and rose up early, and went out to meet Israel in battle, he and all his people at the appointed place facing the Arabah. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ When the king [and people] of Ai saw it, they hastily rose early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle [at a time and place appointed] before the Arabah [plain]. But he did not know of the ambush against him behind the city.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he knew not that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ As soon as the king of Ai saw this, he and all his troops, the men of the city, hurried out early in the morning to meet Israel in battle. They moved out to the battleground on the slopes down toward the Jordan. He didn’t know that there was an ambush set against him behind the city.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ And when the king of Ai had seen this, he hurried in the morning, and he went out with the entire army of the city. And he arranged them in a line opposite the desert, not knowing that an ambush lay hidden behind his back.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ And when the king of Hai saw this, he made haste in the morning, and went out with all the army of the city, and set it in battle array toward the desert, not knowing that there lay an ambush behind his back.

Joshua 8:14 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 9:12

Moreover, no man knows his time: like fish caught in a fatal net or birds caught in a snare, so people are trapped in a time of calamity, that falls upon them suddenly.

Isaiah 19:11

The princes of Zoan are utter fools. Pharaoh’s wisest counselors are stupid. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, a son of ancient kings”?

Isaiah 19:13

The princes of Zoan are fools. the princes of Noph are deceived. The cornerstone of her tribes have led Egypt astray.

Daniel 4:31

But at the end of the appointed days, I Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes up to heaven and my sanity returned to me. So I blessed the Most High and I praised and honored Him who lives forever. “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation!

Matthew 24:39

And they did not understand until the flood came and swept them all away. So shall it be at 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.

Deuteronomy 1:1

These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan—in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Di-Zahab.

Joshua 8:13

So they stationed the people, the main army that was to the north of the city, and its rear guard to the west of the city. Then Joshua walked that night in the midst of the valley.

Joshua 8:15

So Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten before them and fled by the way of the wilderness.

Joshua 8:16

Then all the people who were in Ai were summoned to pursue them, so they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city.

Joshua 8:5

Then I and all the troops with me will approach the city. Then it will be when they come out against us, like the first time, that we will flee before them.

2 Peter 2:3

In their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.

Judges 20:37

So the men in ambush rushed suddenly upon Gibeah, then the men in another ambush advanced and struck the whole town with the edge of the sword.