Joshua 8:6

New International Version

They will pursue us until we have lured them away from the city, for they will say, ‘They are running away from us as they did before.’ So when we flee from them,

Cross References

Exodus 14:3

Pharaoh will think, ‘The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert.’

Exodus 15:9

The enemy boasted, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake them. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword and my hand will destroy them.’

Ecclesiastes 8:11

When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.

Joshua 8:5

I and all those with me will advance on the city, and when the men come out against us, as they did before, we will flee from them.

Joshua 8:7

you are to rise up from ambush and take the city. The Lord your God will give it into your hand.

Judges 20:32

While the Benjamites were saying, “We are defeating them as before,” the Israelites were saying, “Let’s retreat and draw them away from the city to the roads.”