Joshua 8:2

The Passion Translation

Do to Ai what you did to Jericho and its king, except this time, you may take the plunder, including livestock. Set an ambush behind the city.”

Cross References

Psalm 39:6

We live our lives like those living in shadows. All our activities and energies are spent for things that pass away. We gather, we hoard, we cling to our things, only to leave them all behind for who knows who.

Proverbs 13:22

The benevolent man leaves an inheritance that endures to his children’s children, but the wealth of the wicked is treasured up for the righteous.

Proverbs 28:20

Life’s blessings drench the honest and faithful person, but punishment rains down upon the greedy and dishonest.

Jeremiah 17:11

Go ahead and cheat others dishonestly, but by mid-life, everything you’ve gained will fly away, like birds hatched from stolen eggs. You will be proven a fool in the end.

Jeremiah 51:12

Give the signal to attack Babylon’s walls! Post sentries and reinforce the guards! Prepare a surprise attack! Yahweh has done what he said he would do to the people of Babylon.

Joshua 10:1

Adoni-zedek, the king of Jerusalem, was struck with fear when he heard how Joshua had totally destroyed the kings and cities of Ai and Jericho and that the people of Gibeon had made a peace treaty with Israel and were living alongside them. The city of Gibeon was larger than Ai, as large as any of the cities that were ruled by a king, and all its men were known as great warriors.

Joshua 10:28

That day, Joshua captured Makkedah, annihilated the inhabitants, and put its king to the sword, leaving no survivors. And he did to its king what had been done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 11:14

The Israelites kept all the spoils of these towns, including the livestock, but the inhabitants they killed with the sword. There were no survivors.

Joshua 6:21

They utterly destroyed all that was in Jericho, men and women, young and old, livestock and donkeys—everything was destroyed with the sword.

Joshua 8:12

He placed a smaller force of about five thousand men west of the city to set an ambush between Bethel and Ai.

Joshua 8:14

At dawn, when the king of Ai saw the Israelites, he and his army rushed out to fight. They ran to attack Israel at a predetermined place en route to the Arabah, not knowing that an ambush had been set against them behind the city.

Joshua 8:19

and when Joshua gave this signal, all the men waiting in ambush behind the city jumped up from their position and poured into Ai. They quickly captured it and set it on fire.

Joshua 8:24

Joshua’s men killed all the inhabitants of Ai in the fields and in the wilderness where they had chased them. They all fell by the sword. Then the Israelites turned to attack Ai and killed those who were still there.

Joshua 8:3

Joshua and his entire army set out to attack Ai. He chose thirty thousand valiant warriors and sent them ahead by night

Joshua 8:7

jump up from your hiding place, race into Ai, and seize it. Yahweh, your God, will deliver the city into your hands!

Joshua 8:8

When you’ve captured the city, set it on fire. Now that you have your orders, go and do as Yahweh has commanded!”

Joshua 8:9

Joshua then sent them off, and they proceeded to take up a concealed position west of Ai, between Ai and Bethel, while Joshua spent the night with the rest of the troops.

Joshua 9:3

When the inhabitants of Gibeon learned how Joshua had destroyed Jericho and Ai,