Joshua 8:4

New International Version

with these orders: “Listen carefully. You are to set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from it. All of you be on the alert.

Cross References

2 Kings 7:12

The king got up in the night and said to his officers, “I will tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving; so they have left the camp to hide in the countryside, thinking, ‘They will surely come out, and then we will take them alive and get into the city.’ ”

2 Chronicles 13:13

Now Jeroboam had sent troops around to the rear, so that while he was in front of Judah the ambush was behind them.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom makes one wise person more powerful than ten rulers in a city.

Ecclesiastes 9:16

So I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” But the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are no longer heeded.

Acts 23:21

Don’t give in to them, because more than forty of them are waiting in ambush for him. They have taken an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him. They are ready now, waiting for your consent to their request.”

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 8:3

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 20:29

Then Israel set an ambush around Gibeah.

Judges 20:33

All the men of Israel moved from their places and took up positions at Baal Tamar, and the Israelite ambush charged out of its place on the west of Gibeah.

Judges 20:36

Then the Benjamites saw that they were beaten. Now the men of Israel had given way before Benjamin, because they relied on the ambush they had set near Gibeah.

Judges 9:25

In opposition to him these citizens of Shechem set men on the hilltops to ambush and rob everyone who passed by, and this was reported to Abimelek.

Judges 9:32

Now then, during the night you and your men should come and lie in wait in the fields.

1 Samuel 15:2

This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt.

1 Samuel 15:5

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