Joshua 8:4

Free Bible Version

He ordered them, “You lie in ambush behind the town, not far away. All of you need to be ready.

Cross References

2 Kings 7:12

The king got up in the night and said to his officers, “Let me tell you the trick the Arameans are trying to play on us. They know we're starving, so they have left the camp and hidden in the field, thinking, ‘When they leave the city, we'll take them alive and be able to enter the city.’”

2 Chronicles 13:13

But Jeroboam had sent troops around to attack from the rear, so that while he and the main force was in front of Judah, the ambush was behind them.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom gives a wise person greater power than ten town councilors.

Ecclesiastes 9:16

As I've always said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” Yet the wisdom of that poor man was dismissed—people didn't pay attention to what he said.

Acts 23:21

“Please don't listen to them, because they have planned to ambush him with more than forty men who have taken an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him. They're ready right now, waiting for you to agree to the request.”

Joshua 8:16

All the men of the town were called out to chase after them, and as they pursued Joshua they were drawn father from the town.

Joshua 8:3

So Joshua and all the people got ready to attack Ai. He chose thirty thousand of his best fighting men and sent them out at night.

Judges 20:29

Then the Israelites set up an ambush around Gibeah.

Judges 20:33

The main army of Israelites left where they were and took up positions at Baal-tamar, while those in the ambush west of Gibeah charged out to attack from where they had been hiding.

Judges 20:36

The Benjamites saw that they were defeated. The Israelites had fallen back before the Benjamites because they were confident the ambush they had put in place near Gibeah would be successful.

Judges 9:25

The leaders of Shechem sent men to the hill passes to lie in wait and attack Abimelech, and, in the meantime, they robbed everyone who passed by on the road. Abimelech found out what was happening.

Judges 9:32

So come at night with your army and hide in the countryside.

1 Samuel 15:2

This is what the Lord Almighty says: I observed what the Amalekites did to Israel when they ambushed them on their way from Egypt.

1 Samuel 15:5

Saul advanced on the town of Amalek and set up an ambush in the valley.