Joshua 8:17

New International Version

Not a man remained in Ai or Bethel who did not go after Israel. They left the city open and went in pursuit of Israel.

Cross References

Job 5:13

He catches the wise in their craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are swept away.

Deuteronomy 2:30

But Sihon king of Heshbon refused to let us pass through. For the Lord your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done.

Joshua 11:20

For it was the Lord himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Joshua 8:16

All the men of Ai were called to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were lured away from the city.

Joshua 8:18

Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Hold out toward Ai the javelin that is in your hand, for into your hand I will deliver the city.” So Joshua held out toward the city the javelin that was in his hand.

Joshua 8:3

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

Judges 20:31

The Benjamites came out to meet them and were drawn away from the city. They began to inflict casualties on the Israelites as before, so that about thirty men fell in the open field and on the roads—the one leading to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.