Joshua 8:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

There was not a man left in Ai who did not go out after Israel; they left the city open and pursued Israel.

Cross References

Job 5:13

He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.

Deuteronomy 2:30

But King Sihon of Heshbon was not willing to let us pass through, for the Lord your God had hardened his spirit and made his heart defiant in order to hand him over to you, as he has now done.

Joshua 11:20

For it was the Lord’s doing to harden their hearts so that they would come against Israel in battle, in order that they might be utterly destroyed and might receive no mercy but be exterminated, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Joshua 8:16

So all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and as they pursued Joshua they were drawn away from the city.

Joshua 8:18

Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Stretch out the sword that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” And Joshua stretched out the sword that was in his hand toward the city.

Joshua 8:3

So Joshua and all the fighting men set out to go up against Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand warriors and sent them out by night

Judges 20:31

When the Benjaminites went out against the army, they were drawn away from the city. As before, they began to inflict casualties on the troops along the main roads, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, as well as in the open country, killing about thirty men of Israel.