Joshua 8:6 - Tree of Life Version

⁶ So they will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city. For they will think, ‘They are fleeing before us like the first time.’ While we are fleeing before them,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ (for they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Till we have drawn them from the city, for they will say, They are fleeing from us as before. So we will flee before them.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ and they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them;

Common English Bible

⁶ They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city. They will think, They are fleeing from us as before. So we will flee from them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ until, pursuing us, they are drawn away from the city. For they will think that we are fleeing as before.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Till they pursuing us be drawn farther from the city. For they will think that we flee as before.

Joshua 8:6 Cross References

Exodus 14:3

Pharaoh will say concerning Bnei-Yisrael, ‘They are wandering aimlessly in the land—the wilderness has shut them in!’

Exodus 15:9

The enemy said, “I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil. My lust shall gorge on them! I will draw my sword— my hand will destroy them.”

Ecclesiastes 8:11

When the sentence against a crime is not swiftly carried out, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.

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.

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.

Joshua 8:7

you will rise up from the ambush and take possession of the city, for Adonai your God will give it into your hand.

Judges 20:32

So the children of Benjamin said, “They are defeated before us as before.” But Bnei-Yisrael said, “Let us flee and draw them away from the town to the highways.”