Joshua 8:6

New American Bible - revised edition

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,

Cross References

Exodus 14:3

Pharaoh will then say, “The Israelites are wandering about aimlessly in the land. The wilderness has closed in on them.”

Exodus 15:9

The enemy boasted, “I will pursue and overtake them; I will divide the spoils and have my fill of them; I will draw my sword; my hand will despoil them!”

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not promptly executed, the human heart is filled with the desire to commit evil—

Ecclesiastes 9:12

Human beings no more know their own time than fish taken in the fatal net or birds trapped in the snare; like these, mortals are caught when an evil time suddenly falls upon them. The Uncertain Future and the Sages.

Joshua 8:5

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.

Joshua 8:7

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

Judges 20:32

The Benjaminites thought, “They are routed before us as previously.” The Israelites, however, were thinking, “We will flee and draw them out from the city onto the highways.”