Joshua 7:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai.

Cross References

Genesis 12:8

From there he moved on to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east, and there he built an altar to the Lord and invoked the name of the Lord.

Genesis 28:19

He called that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

1 Kings 12:29

He set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

Nehemiah 11:31

The people of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages,

Proverbs 20:18

Plans are established by taking advice; wage war by following wise guidance.

Proverbs 24:6

for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.

Isaiah 10:28

he has come to Aiath; he has passed through Migron; at Michmash he stores his baggage;

Jeremiah 49:3

Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth, lament, and slash yourselves with whips! For Milcom shall go into exile, with his priests and his attendants.

Hosea 4:15

Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, do not let Judah become guilty. Do not enter into Gilgal or go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear, “As the Lord lives.”

Matthew 10:16

“I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Ephesians 5:15

Be careful, then, how you live, not as unwise people but as wise,

Joshua 12:9

the king of Jericho one the king of Ai, which is next to Bethel one

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 2:1

Then Joshua son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and spent the night there.

Joshua 7:3

Then they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Not all the people need go up; about two or three thousand men should go up and attack Ai. Since they are so few, do not make the whole people toil up there.”

1 Samuel 13:5

The Philistines mustered to fight with Israel: thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude; they came up and encamped at Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.

1 Samuel 14:23

So the Lord gave Israel the victory that day. The battle passed beyond Beth-aven, and the troops with Saul numbered altogether about ten thousand men. The battle spread out over the hill country of Ephraim.

1 Samuel 30:27

It was for those in Bethel, in Ramoth of the Negeb, in Jattir,