Joshua 8:8

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:28

But Absalom had instructed his attendants: “Now watch! When Amnon is merry with wine and I say to you, ‘Kill Amnon,’ put him to death. Do not be afraid, for it is I who order you to do it. Be strong and act like warriors.” Death of Amnon.

Deuteronomy 20:16

But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord, your God, is giving you as a heritage, you shall not leave a single soul alive.

Joshua 1:16

They answered Joshua, “We will do all you have commanded us, and we will go wherever you send us.

Joshua 1:9

I command you: be strong and steadfast! Do not fear nor be dismayed, for the Lord, your God, is with you wherever you go.

Joshua 6:24

The city itself they burned with all that was in it; but the silver, gold, and articles of bronze and iron they placed in the treasury of the house of the Lord.

Joshua 8:13

Thus the people took up their stations, with the main body north of the city and the ambush west of it, and Joshua waited overnight in the valley.

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 8:22

Since those in the city came out to intercept them, Ai’s army was hemmed in by Israelites on both sides, who cut them down without any fugitives or survivors

Joshua 8:28

Then Joshua destroyed Ai by fire, reducing it to an everlasting mound of ruins, as it remains today.

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 8:9

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.

Judges 4:6

She had Barak, son of Abinoam, summoned from Kedesh of Naphtali. She said to him, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, commands: Go, march against Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men from Naphtali and Zebulun.