Joshua 8:3 - Tree of Life Version

³ So Joshua and all the people of war arose to go up to Ai. Joshua selected 30,000 men, valiant warriors, and sent them at 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

Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men, go out, and fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”

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.

Matthew 25:6

But in the middle of the night there was a shout, ‘Look, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’

1 Thessalonians 5:2

For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord comes 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

Then you will do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king—except you will take its spoil and its cattle as plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”

Joshua 8:4

He commanded them saying: “Look, you are going to ambush the city from behind it. Don’t go too far from the city, but all of you be ready.

2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that day the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the elements will melt and disintegrate, and the earth and everything done on it shall be exposed.

Judges 9:32

So now, arise by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.