Joshua 8:4

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

2 Kings 7:12

Though it was night, the king got up; he said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. Knowing that we are starving, they have left their camp to hide in the field. They are thinking, ‘The Israelites will leave the city and we will take them alive and enter it.’”

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom is a better defense for the wise than ten princes in the city,

Ecclesiastes 9:16

Though I had said, “Wisdom is better than force,” yet the wisdom of the poor man is despised and his words go unheeded.

Acts 23:21

but do not believe them. More than forty of them are lying in wait for him; they have bound themselves by oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him. They are now ready and only wait for your consent.”

Joshua 8:16

until the last of the soldiers in the city had been called out to pursue them. Since they were drawn away from the city, with everyone pursuing Joshua,

Joshua 8:3

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

Judges 20:29

So Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah.

Judges 20:33

And then all the men of Israel rose from their places, forming up at Baal-tamar, and the Israelites in ambush rushed from their place west of Gibeah

Judges 20:36

Then the Benjaminites saw that they were defeated. The men of Israel gave ground to Benjamin, trusting in the ambush they had set at Gibeah.

Judges 9:25

The lords of Shechem then set men in ambush for him on the mountaintops, and they robbed all who passed them on the road. It was reported to Abimelech.

Judges 9:32

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

1 Samuel 15:2

Thus says the Lord of hosts: I will punish what Amalek did to the Israelites when he barred their way as they came up from Egypt.

1 Samuel 15:5

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