Joshua 8:2

Tree of Life Version

Then you will do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king—except you will take its spoil and its cattle as plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 13:13

But Jeroboam had commanded the ambush to go around and come from the rear. So while they were in front of Judah, the ambush was behind them.

2 Chronicles 20:22

As they began singing and praising, Adonai set ambushes against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who had come against Judah, and they were defeated.

Psalm 39:6

Behold, You made my days mere hand-breadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Surely all humanity is but vapor. Selah

Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.

Proverbs 28:20

A faithful man will have many blessings, but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished.

Jeremiah 17:11

As a partridge that broods over young that she did not lay, so is one who gets wealth, unjustly. In the middle of his days it will abandon him, so at his end he will be a fool.

Jeremiah 51:12

Raise a banner at Babylon’s walls! Strengthen the guard. Station watchmen. Prepare ambushes. For Adonai has both planned and accomplished what He spoke about the Babylonians.

Deuteronomy 2:35

We took only the livestock as plunder for ourselves, as the spoils of the cities we captured.

Deuteronomy 20:14

Only the women, children, livestock and all that is in the city—all its spoil—may you take as plunder for yourself. So you may consume your enemies’ spoil, which Adonai your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 3:2

But Adonai said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have handed him over and all his people and his land. You will do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.’

Joshua 10:1

Now it came to pass that Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it—just as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king—and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and remained among them.

Joshua 10:28

On that day Joshua captured Makkedah and struck it and its king with the edge of the sword, putting it and every single soul in it under a ban of destruction, leaving no survivors. So he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 11:14

All the spoil of these cities and the cattle, Bnei-Yisrael took as their plunder, but they struck down every person with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, not sparing anyone who breathed.

Joshua 6:21

They utterly destroyed everything in the city—man and woman, young and old, ox, sheep and donkey—with the edge of the sword.

Joshua 8:12

But he had taken about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

Joshua 8:14

So it came to pass when the king of Ai saw this, the men of the city hurried and rose up early, and went out to meet Israel in battle, he and all his people at the appointed place facing the Arabah. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

Joshua 8:19

As soon as he stretched out his hand, the ambush arose quickly from their place, ran and entered the city and captured it; and immediately set the city on fire.

Joshua 8:24

After Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field in the wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them were fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.

Joshua 8:3

So Joshua and all the people of war arose to go up to Ai. Joshua selected 30,000 men, valiant warriors, and sent them at night.

Joshua 8:7

you will rise up from the ambush and take possession of the city, for Adonai your God will give it into your hand.

Joshua 8:8

Now when you have seized the city, you will set the city on fire—according to the word of Adonai you must do. See that you do as I have ordered you.”

Joshua 8:9

So Joshua sent them off, and they went to the ambush site, taking position between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But Joshua spent that night among the people.

Joshua 9:3

But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,