Joshua 8:8

Christian Standard Bible

After taking the city, set it on fire. Follow the Lord’s command #— #see that you do as I have ordered you.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:28

Now Absalom commanded his young men, “Watch Amnon until he is in a good mood from the wine. When I order you to strike Amnon, then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Am I not the one who has commanded you? Be strong and valiant! ”

Joshua 1:16

They answered Joshua, “Everything you have commanded us we will do, and everywhere you send us we will go.

Joshua 1:9

Haven’t I commanded you: be strong and courageous?  Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Judges 4:6

She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Hasn’t the Lord, the God of Israel,  commanded you, ‘Go, deploy the troops on Mount Tabor,  and take with you ten thousand men from the Naphtalites  and Zebulunites?

Joshua 8:28

Joshua burned Ai and left it a permanent ruin, still desolate today.

Joshua 6:24

They burned the city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the Lord’s house.

Deuteronomy 20:16

However, you must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Joshua 8:2

Treat Ai and its king as you did Jericho and its king,  except that you may plunder its spoil and livestock for yourselves.  Set an ambush behind the city.”

Joshua 8:7

you are to come out of your ambush and seize the city. The Lord your God will hand it over to you.

Joshua 8:9

So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the ambush site and waited between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But he spent that night with the troops.

Joshua 8:22

Then men in ambush came out of the city against them, and the men of Ai were trapped between the Israelite forces, some on one side and some on the other. They struck them down until no survivor or fugitive remained,

Joshua 8:13

The troops were stationed in this way: the main  camp to the north of the city and its rear guard to the west of the city. And that night Joshua went into the valley.