Joshua 8:8

New Living Translation

Set the town on fire, as the Lord has commanded. You have your orders.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:28

Absalom told his men, “Wait until Amnon gets drunk; then at my signal, kill him! Don’t be afraid. I’m the one who has given the command. Take courage and do it!”

Deuteronomy 20:16

In those towns that the Lord your God is giving you as a special possession, destroy every living thing.

Joshua 1:16

They answered Joshua, “We will do whatever you command us, and we will go wherever you send us.

Joshua 1:9

This is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Joshua 6:24

Then the Israelites burned the town and everything in it. Only the things made from silver, gold, bronze, or iron were kept for the treasury of the Lord’s house.

Joshua 8:13

So they stationed the main army north of the town and the ambush west of the town. Joshua himself spent that night in the valley.

Joshua 8:2

You will destroy them as you destroyed Jericho and its king. But this time you may keep the plunder and the livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the town.”

Joshua 8:22

Meanwhile, the Israelites who were inside the town came out and attacked the enemy from the rear. So the men of Ai were caught in the middle, with Israelite fighters on both sides. Israel attacked them, and not a single person survived or escaped.

Joshua 8:28

So Joshua burned the town of Ai, and it became a permanent mound of ruins, desolate to this very day.

Joshua 8:7

you will jump up from your ambush and take possession of the town, for the Lord your God will give it to you.

Joshua 8:9

So they left and went to the place of ambush between Bethel and the west side of Ai. But Joshua remained among the people in the camp that night.

Judges 4:6

One day she sent for Barak son of Abinoam, who lived in Kedesh in the land of Naphtali. She said to him, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, commands you: Call out 10,000 warriors from the tribes of Naphtali and Zebulun at Mount Tabor.