Joshua 8:4 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) He commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city; don't go very far from the city, but be all ready: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And he commanded them, Behold, you shall lie in wait against the city behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready. American Standard Version (1901) And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city; go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready: Common English Bible He commanded them, “Look. You are to ambush the city from behind. Don’t move too far away from the city. Be ready, all of you. Catholic Public Domain Version And he instructed them, saying: "Set an ambush behind the city. You shall withdraw not far away, and let everyone be prepared. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And commanded them, saying: Lay an ambush behind the city: and go not very far from it: and be ye all ready. |
The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.
But Yarov`am caused an ambush to come about behind them: so they were before Yehudah, and the ambush was behind them.
Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.
Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength. Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.*
All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Yehoshua, and were drawn away from the city.
So Yehoshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to `Ai: and Yehoshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night.
All the men of Yisra'el rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Ba`al-Tamar: and the ambushers of Yisra'el broke forth out of their place, even out of Ma`areh-Geva.
So the children of Binyamin saw that they were struck; for the men of Yisra'el gave place to Binyamin, because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gevah.
The men of Shekhem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them: and it was told Avimelekh.
Now therefore, up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field:
Thus says the LORD of Armies, I have marked that which `Amalek did to Yisra'el, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt.