Joshua 8:6

Modern English Version

They will come after us until we have lured them away from the city, for they will think, ‘They are fleeing from us as before!’ So we will flee from them.

Cross References

Exodus 14:3

For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, “They are confused in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.”

Exodus 15:9

“The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.’

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of people is fully set to do evil.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For no one knows his appointed time. Like fish caught in a cruel net, like birds caught in a snare, so people are ensnared in an evil time, when it suddenly falls on them.

Joshua 8:5

I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. When they come out to engage us as before, we will flee from them.

Joshua 8:7

Then you shall rise up for the ambush and take possession of the city. The Lord your God will give it into your hands.

Judges 20:32

The Benjamites said, “They are struck down before us like at the beginning.” But the Israelites said, “Let us retreat and draw them away from the city toward the main roads.”