Joshua 8:8

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Once you've captured the town, set it on fire, as the Lord has instructed. Now follow your orders.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:28

Absalom gave orders to his men, saying, “Pay attention! When Amnon is feeling happy from drinking wine and I tell you, ‘Attack Amnon!’ then kill him. Don't be afraid. I myself am giving you this order. Be strong and be brave.”

Joshua 1:16

They said to Joshua, “We will do everything you have ordered us to do, and we will go wherever you send us.

Joshua 1:9

Don't forget what I told you: Be strong! Be brave! Don't be afraid! Don't get discouraged! For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Judges 4:6

She sent for Barak, son of Abinoam, from the town of Kedesh in Naphtali and told him, “The Lord, the God of Israel, orders you: ‘Go to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun, and lead them there.

Joshua 8:28

So Joshua burned the town of Ai, making it permanently into a heap of ruins where no one lives to this very day.

Joshua 6:24

Then the Israelites burned down the city and everything in it, except for the silver and the gold, and everything made of bronze and iron, which they placed in the treasury of the Lord's house.

Deuteronomy 20:16

However, when it comes to the towns of those nations whose land the Lord your God is giving you to occupy, don't leave anything alive that breathes.

Joshua 8:2

You will do to Ai and its king what you did to Jericho and its king. However, this time you may keep for yourselves the plunder and the livestock. Set up an ambush behind the town.”

Joshua 8:7

While we're running away from them, you will get up from your ambush positions and take the town, for the Lord God will hand it over to you.

Joshua 8:9

Joshua sent them out, and they went to lie in ambush between Bethel and the west side of Ai. But that night Joshua stayed with the people in the camp.

Joshua 8:22

The men from the ambush also came from the town and attacked them, so they were caught in the middle, with the Israelites on both sides. The Israelites cut them down—not a single man survived or got away.

Joshua 8:13

So the army took up their positions—the main army to the north of the town, and the ambush to the west. Joshua went that night to the valley.