Joshua 8:15

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

And Joshua and all Israel made a pretense of being beaten before them, and fled in the direction of the wilderness.

Cross References

Joshua 15:61

In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, Secacah,

Joshua 16:1

The allotment of the Josephites went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel;

Joshua 18:12

On the north side their boundary began at the Jordan; then the boundary goes up to the slope of Jericho on the north, then up through the hill country westward; and it ends at the wilderness of Beth-aven.

Joshua 8:14

When the king of Ai saw this, he and all his people, the inhabitants of the city, hurried out early in the morning to the meeting place facing the Arabah to meet Israel in battle; but he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

Judges 20:36

Then the Benjaminites saw that they were defeated. The Israelites gave ground to Benjamin, because they trusted to the troops in ambush that they had stationed against Gibeah.

Judges 20:42

Therefore they turned away from the Israelites in the direction of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them, and those who came out of the city were slaughtering them in between.