Joshua 8:5

New American Bible - revised edition

The rest of the people and I will come up to the city, and when they make a sortie against us as they did the last time, we will flee from them.

Cross References

Matthew 10:16

“Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves.

Joshua 7:5

who killed some thirty-six of them. They pursued them from the city gate to the Shebarim, and defeated them on the descent, so that the confidence of the people melted away like water.

Joshua 8:6

They will keep coming out after us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will think, ‘They are fleeing from us as they did the last time.’ When we flee,