Joshua 8:4

New English Translation

He told them, “Look, set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city; all of you be ready!

Cross References

2 Kings 7:12

The king got up in the night and said to his advisers, “I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know we are starving, so they left the camp and hid in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and enter the city.’”

2 Chronicles 13:13

Now Jeroboam had sent some men to ambush the Judahite army from behind. The main army was in front of the Judahite army; the ambushers were behind it.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom gives a wise person more protection than ten rulers in a city.

Ecclesiastes 9:16

So I concluded that wisdom is better than might, but a poor man’s wisdom is despised; no one ever listens to his advice.

Acts 23:21

So do not let them persuade you to do this, because more than forty of them are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they have killed him, and now they are ready, waiting for you to agree to their request.”

Joshua 8:16

All the reinforcements in Ai were ordered to chase them; they chased Joshua and were lured away from the city.

Joshua 8:3

Joshua and the whole army marched against Ai. Joshua selected thirty thousand brave warriors and sent them out at night.

Judges 20:29

So Israel hid men in ambush outside Gibeah.

Judges 20:33

All the men of Israel got up from their places and took their positions at Baal Tamar, while the Israelites hiding in ambush jumped out of their places west of Gibeah.

Judges 20:36

Then the Benjaminites saw they were defeated. The Israelites retreated before Benjamin, because they had confidence in the men they had hid in ambush outside Gibeah.

Judges 9:25

The leaders of Shechem rebelled against Abimelech by putting bandits in the hills, who robbed everyone who traveled by on the road. But Abimelech found out about it.

Judges 9:32

Now, come up at night with your men and set an ambush in the field outside the city.

1 Samuel 15:2

Here is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed Israel along the way when Israel came up from Egypt.

1 Samuel 15:5

Saul proceeded to the city of Amalek, where he set an ambush in the wadi.