Joshua 8:2

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

You will do to Ai and its king the same thing you did to Jericho and its king. Only this time you can take all the wealth and animals and keep it for yourselves. You will share the wealth with your people. Now, tell some of your soldiers to hide behind the city.”

Cross References

Deuteronomy 20:14

But you may take for yourselves the women, the children, the cattle, and everything else in the city. You may use all these things. The Lord your God has given these things to you.

Proverbs 13:22

It is good to have something to pass down to your grandchildren. But wealth hidden away by sinners will be given to those who live right.

2 Chronicles 20:22

As they began to sing and to praise God, the Lord set an ambush for the army from Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who had come to attack Judah. The enemy was defeated!

Joshua 6:21

The people destroyed everything in the city. They destroyed everything that was living there. They killed the young and old men, the young and old women, and the cattle, sheep, and donkeys.

Jeremiah 51:12

Lift up a flag against the walls of Babylon. Bring more guards. Put the watchmen in their places. Get ready for a secret attack. The Lord will do what he has planned. He will do what he said he would do against the people of Babylon.

Jeremiah 17:11

Sometimes a bird will hatch an egg that it did not lay. Those who cheat to get money are like that bird. But when their lives are half finished, they will lose the money. At the end of their lives, it will be clear that they were fools.”

Proverbs 28:20

People who can be trusted will have many blessings, but those who are just trying to get rich in a hurry will be punished.

Psalm 39:6

Our life is like an image in a mirror. We rush through life collecting things, but we don’t know who will get them after we die.

2 Chronicles 13:13

But Jeroboam sent a group of soldiers to sneak behind Abijah’s army. Jeroboam’s army was in front of Abijah’s army. The hidden soldiers from Jeroboam’s army were behind Abijah’s army.

Joshua 10:28

That day Joshua defeated Makkedah. He killed the king and the people in that city. No one was left alive. Joshua did the same thing to the king of Makkedah that he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:1

At this time Adoni Zedek was the king of Jerusalem. He heard that Joshua had defeated Ai and completely destroyed it. The king learned that Joshua had done the same thing to Jericho and its king. He also learned that the Gibeonites had made a peace agreement with Israel and that they lived very near Jerusalem.

Joshua 8:24

During the fighting, the army of Israel chased the men from Ai into the fields and into the desert. So the army of Israel finished killing all the men from Ai in the fields and in the desert. Then the Israelites went back to Ai and killed all the people who were still alive in the city.

Joshua 8:19

When the Israelites who were hiding saw this, they quickly came out from their hiding place and hurried toward the city. They entered the city and took control of it. Then the soldiers started fires to burn the city.

Joshua 8:14

Later, the king of Ai saw the army of Israel. The king and his people hurried out to fight the army of Israel. The king of Ai went out the east side of the city toward the Jordan Valley, so he did not see the soldiers hiding behind the city.

Joshua 8:12

Then Joshua chose about 5000 men. He sent these men to hide in the area west of the city, between Bethel and Ai.

Joshua 8:9

Then Joshua sent them to their hiding place and waited. They went to a place west of Ai, between Bethel and Ai. But Joshua stayed the night with his people.

Joshua 8:7

Then you should come out of your hiding place and take control of the city. The Lord your God will give you the power to win.

Deuteronomy 3:2

The Lord said to me, ‘Don’t be afraid of Og. I have decided to give him to you. I will give you all his men and his land. You will defeat him just as you defeated Sihon, the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon.’

Joshua 8:3

So Joshua led his whole army toward Ai. Then Joshua chose 30,000 of his best fighting men and sent them out at night.

Joshua 8:8

“You must do what the Lord says. Watch me and I will give you the command to attack the city. When you have taken control of the city, burn it.”

Deuteronomy 2:35

We took only the cattle and the valuable things from those cities.

Joshua 9:3

The people from the city of Gibeon heard about the way Joshua had defeated Jericho and Ai.

Joshua 11:14

The Israelites kept for themselves all the things and all the animals they found in the cities. But they killed all the people there. They left no one alive.