Joshua 8:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘They are fleeing from us as before.’ While we flee from them,

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For no one can anticipate one’s time. Like fish taken in a cruel net or like birds caught in a snare, so mortals are snared at a time of calamity, when it suddenly falls upon them.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the human heart is fully set to do evil.

Judges 20:32

The Benjaminites thought, “They are being routed before us, as previously.” But the Israelites said, “Let us retreat and draw them away from the city toward the roads.”

Exodus 15:9

The enemy said, ‘I will pursue; I will overtake; I will divide the spoil; my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’

Exodus 14:3

Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering aimlessly in the land; the wilderness has closed in on them.’

Joshua 8:5

I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. When they come out against us, as before, we will flee from them.

Joshua 8:7

you shall rise up from the ambush and seize the city, for the Lord your God will give it into your hand.