Joshua 8:8

New English Translation

When you capture the city, set it on fire. Do as the Lord says! See, I have given you orders.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:28

Absalom instructed his servants, “Look! When Amnon is drunk and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon down,’ kill him then and there. Don’t fear! Is it not I who have given you these instructions? Be strong and courageous!”

Deuteronomy 20:16

As for the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive.

Joshua 1:16

They told Joshua, “We will do everything you say. We will go wherever you send us.

Joshua 1:9

I repeat, be strong and brave! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic, for I, the Lord your God, am with you in all you do.”

Joshua 6:24

But they burned the city and all that was in it, except for the silver, gold, and bronze and iron items they put in the treasury of the Lord’s house.

Joshua 8:13

The army was in position – the main army north of the city and the rear guard west of the city. That night Joshua went into the middle of the valley.

Joshua 8:2

Do to Ai and its king what you did to Jericho and its king, except you may plunder its goods and cattle. Set an ambush behind the city!”

Joshua 8:22

At the same time the men who had taken the city came out to fight, and the men of Ai were trapped in the middle. The Israelites struck them down, leaving no survivors or refugees.

Joshua 8:28

Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanently uninhabited mound (it remains that way to this very day).

Joshua 8:7

Then you rise up from your hiding place and seize the city. The Lord your God will hand it over to you.

Joshua 8:9

Joshua sent them away and they went to their hiding place west of Ai, between Bethel and Ai. Joshua spent that night with the army.

Judges 4:6

She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali. She said to him, “Is it not true that the Lord God of Israel is commanding you? Go, march to Mount Tabor! Take with you ten thousand men from Naphtali and Zebulun!