Joshua 8:3

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

1 Thessalonians 5:2

For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night.

Matthew 25:6

At midnight, there was a cry, ‘Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’

Matthew 24:50

the servant’s master will come on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour

Matthew 24:39

They did not know until the flood came and carried them all away. So will it be [also] at the coming of the Son of Man.

2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a mighty roar and the elements will be dissolved by fire, and the earth and everything done on it will be found out. Exhortation to Preparedness.

Joshua 8:2

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.

Joshua 8:4

with these orders: “See that you ambush the city from the rear. Do not be very far from the city. All of you must be ready.

Exodus 17:9

So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some men for us, and tomorrow go out and engage Amalek in battle. I will be standing on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”

Joshua 10:7

So Joshua marched up from Gilgal with all his army and all his warriors.

Judges 9:32

So take action tonight, you and the troops who are with you, and set an ambush in the fields.