Joshua 8:14

Good News Translation

When the king of Ai saw Joshua's men, he acted quickly. He and all his men went out toward the Jordan Valley to fight the Israelites at the same place as before, not knowing that he was about to be attacked from the rear.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 9:12

You never know when your time is coming. Like birds suddenly caught in a trap, like fish caught in a net, we are trapped at some evil moment when we least expect it.

Isaiah 19:11

The leaders of the city of Zoan are fools! Egypt's wisest people give stupid advice! How do they dare to tell the king that they are successors to the ancient scholars and kings?

Isaiah 19:13

The leaders of Zoan and Memphis are fools. They were supposed to lead the nation, but they have misled it.

Daniel 4:31

Before the words were out of his mouth, a voice spoke from heaven, “King Nebuchadnezzar, listen to what I say! Your royal power is now taken away from you.

Matthew 24:39

yet they did not realize what was happening until the flood came and swept them all away. That is how it will be when the Son of Man comes.

Matthew 24:50

Then that servant's master will come back one day when the servant does not expect him and at a time he does not know.

Deuteronomy 1:1

In this book are the words that Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they were in the wilderness east of the Jordan River. They were in the Jordan Valley near Suph, between the town of Paran on one side and the towns of Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab on the other. (

Joshua 8:13

The soldiers were arranged for battle with the main camp north of the city and the rest of the men to the west. Joshua spent the night in the valley.

Joshua 8:15

Joshua and his men pretended that they were retreating, and ran away toward the barren country.

Joshua 8:16

All the men in the city had been called together to go after them, and as they pursued Joshua, they kept getting farther away from the city.

Joshua 8:5

My men and I will approach the city. When the men of Ai come out against us, we will turn and run, just as we did the first time.

2 Peter 2:3

In their greed these false teachers will make a profit out of telling you made-up stories. For a long time now their Judge has been ready, and their Destroyer has been wide awake!

Judges 20:37

These men ran quickly toward Gibeah; they spread out in the city and killed everyone there.