Joshua 8:4

New Century Version

Joshua gave them these orders: “Listen carefully. You must set up an ambush behind the city. Don’t go far from it, but continue to watch and be ready.

Cross References

2 Kings 7:12

The king got up in the night and said to his officers, “I’ll tell you what the Arameans are doing to us. They know we are starving. They have gone out of the camp to hide in the field. They’re saying, ‘When the Israelites come out of the city, we’ll capture them alive. Then we’ll enter the city.’ ”

2 Chronicles 13:13

But Jeroboam had sent some troops to sneak behind Judah’s army. So while Jeroboam was in front of Judah’s army, Jeroboam’s soldiers were behind them.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom makes a person stronger than ten leaders in a city.

Ecclesiastes 9:16

I still think wisdom is better than strength. But those people forgot about the poor man’s wisdom and stopped listening to what he said.

Acts 23:21

But don’t believe them! More than forty men are hiding and waiting to kill Paul. They have all taken an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him. Now they are waiting for you to agree.”

Joshua 8:16

The men in Ai were called to chase Joshua and his men, so they left the city and went after them.

Joshua 8:3

So Joshua led his whole army toward Ai. Then he chose thirty thousand of his best fighting men and sent them out at night.

Judges 20:29

Then the Israelites set up ambushes all around Gibeah.

Judges 20:33

All the Israelites moved from their places and got into battle positions at a place named Baal Tamar. Then the Israelites ran out from their hiding places west of Gibeah.

Judges 20:36

Then the Benjaminites saw that they were defeated. The Israelites had moved back because they were depending on the surprise attack they had set up near Gibeah.

Judges 9:25

The leaders of Shechem were against Abimelech then. They put men on the hilltops in ambush who robbed everyone going by. And Abimelech was told.

Judges 9:32

You and your men should get up during the night and hide in the fields outside the city.

1 Samuel 15:2

This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: ‘When the Israelites came out of Egypt, the Amalekites tried to stop them from going to Canaan. So I will punish them.

1 Samuel 15:5

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