Joshua 8:3

New International Reader's Version

So Joshua and the whole army moved out to attack Ai. He chose 30,000 of his best fighting men. He sent them out at night.

Cross References

Exodus 17:9

Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men. Then go out and fight against the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill. I’ll stand there holding the walking stick God gave me.”

Matthew 24:39

They knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be when the Son of Man comes.

Matthew 24:50

The master of that slave will come back on a day the slave doesn’t expect him. He will return at an hour the slave does not know.

Matthew 25:6

“At midnight someone cried out, ‘Here’s the groom! Come out to meet him!’

1 Thessalonians 5:2

You know very well how the day of the Lord will come. It will come like a thief in the night.

Joshua 10:7

So Joshua marched up from Gilgal with his whole army. The army included all his best fighting men.

Joshua 8:2

Remember what you did to Jericho and its king. You will do the same thing to Ai and its king. But this time you can keep for yourselves the livestock and everything else you take from them. Have some of your fighting men hide behind the city and take them by surprise.”

Joshua 8:4

He gave them orders. He said, “Listen carefully to what I’m saying. You must hide behind the city. Don’t go very far away from it. All of you must be ready to attack it.

2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar. Fire will destroy everything in them. God will judge the earth and everything done in it.

Judges 9:32

So come with your men during the night. Hide in the fields and wait.