Joshua 8:2

New American Bible - revised edition

Do to Ai and its king what you did to Jericho and its king—except that you may take its spoil and livestock as plunder. Set an ambush behind the city.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 13:13

But Jeroboam had an ambush go around them to come at them from the rear; so that while his army faced Judah, his ambush lay behind them.

2 Chronicles 20:22

At the moment they began their jubilant praise, the Lord laid an ambush against the Ammonites, Moabites, and those of Mount Seir who were coming against Judah, so that they were defeated.

Psalm 39:6

To be sure, you establish the expanse of my days; indeed, my life is as nothing before you. Every man is but a breath. Selah

Proverbs 13:22

The good leave an inheritance to their children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the just.

Proverbs 28:20

The trustworthy will be richly blessed; but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.

Jeremiah 17:11

A partridge that broods but does not hatch are those who acquire wealth unjustly: In midlife it will desert them; in the end they are only fools.

Jeremiah 51:12

Over the walls of Babylon raise a signal, reinforce the watch; Post sentries, arrange ambushes! For the Lord has both planned and carried out what he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.

Deuteronomy 2:35

Our only plunder was the livestock and the spoils of the captured cities.

Deuteronomy 20:14

but the women and children and livestock and anything else in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder for yourselves, and you may enjoy this spoil of your enemies, which the Lord, your God, has given you.

Deuteronomy 3:2

The Lord said to me, Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your power with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.

Joshua 10:1

Now when Adonizedek, king of Jerusalem, heard that Joshua had captured Ai and put it under the ban, and had done to that city and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made their peace with Israel, remaining among them,

Joshua 10:28

Makkedah, too, Joshua captured and put to the sword at that time. He put the city, its king, and every person in it under the ban, leaving no survivors. Thus he did to the king of Makkedah what he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 11:14

All the spoil and livestock of these cities the Israelites took as plunder; but the people they put to the sword, until they had destroyed the last of them, leaving none alive.

Joshua 6:21

They observed the ban by putting to the sword all living creatures in the city: men and women, young and old, as well as oxen, sheep and donkeys.

Joshua 8:12

He took about five thousand warriors and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, west of the city.

Joshua 8:14

The king of Ai saw this, and he and all his army came out very early in the morning to engage Israel in battle at the place in front of the Arabah, not knowing that there was an ambush behind the city.

Joshua 8:19

and as soon as he did so, the men in ambush rose from their post, rushed in, captured the city, and immediately set it on fire.

Joshua 8:24

When Israel finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open, who had pursued them into the wilderness, and all of them to the last man fell by the sword, then all Israel returned and put to the sword those inside the city.

Joshua 8:3

So Joshua and all the soldiers prepared to attack Ai. Picking out thirty thousand warriors, Joshua sent them off by night

Joshua 8:7

then you rise from ambush and take possession of the city, which the Lord, your God, will deliver into your power.

Joshua 8:8

When you have taken the city, set it on fire in obedience to the Lord’s command. These are my orders to you.”

Joshua 8:9

Then Joshua sent them away. They went to the place of ambush, taking up their position to the west of Ai, toward Bethel. Joshua, however, spent that night with the army.

Joshua 9:3

On hearing what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai, the inhabitants of Gibeon