Joshua 8:4

Holman Christian Standard Bible

He commanded them: “Pay attention. Lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it, and all of you be ready.

Cross References

2 Kings 7:12

So the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving, so they have left the camp to hide in the open country, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and go into the city.’ ”

2 Chronicles 13:13

Now Jeroboam had sent an ambush around to advance from behind them. So they were in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom makes the wise man stronger than ten rulers of a city.

Ecclesiastes 9:16

And I said, “Wisdom is better than strength, but the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heeded.”

Acts 23:21

Don’t let them persuade you, because there are more than 40 of them arranging to ambush him, men who have bound themselves under a curse not to eat or drink until they kill him. Now they are ready, waiting for a commitment from you.”

Joshua 8:16

Then all the troops of Ai were summoned to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city.

Joshua 8:3

So Joshua and the whole military force set out to attack Ai. Joshua selected 30,000 fighting men and sent them out at night.

Judges 20:29

So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.

Judges 20:33

So all the men of Israel got up from their places and took their battle positions at Baal-tamar, while the Israelites in ambush charged out of their places west of Geba.

Judges 20:36

Then the Benjaminites realized they had been defeated. The men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin, because they were confident in the ambush they had set against Gibeah.

Judges 9:25

The lords of Shechem rebelled against him by putting people on the tops of the mountains to ambush and rob everyone who passed by them on the road. So this was reported to Abimelech.

Judges 9:32

Now tonight, you and the people with you are to come wait in ambush in the countryside.

1 Samuel 15:2

This is what the Lord of Hosts says: ‘I witnessed what the Amalekites did to the Israelites when they opposed them along the way as they were coming out of Egypt.

1 Samuel 15:5

Saul came to the city of Amalek and set up an ambush in the wadi.