Joshua 8:4 - Good News Translation (US Version)

⁴ with these orders: “Hide on the other side of the city, but not too far away from it; be ready to attack.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ 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

⁴ 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)

⁴ 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

⁴ 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

⁴ And he instructed them, saying: "Set an ambush behind the city. You shall withdraw not far away, and let everyone be prepared.

Joshua 8:4 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 7:12

It was still night, but the king got out of bed and said to his officials, “I'll tell you what the Syrians are planning! They know about the famine here, so they have left their camp to go and hide in the countryside. They think that we will leave the city to find food, and then they will take us alive and capture the city.”

2 Chronicles 13:13

Meanwhile Jeroboam had sent some of his troops to ambush the Judean army from the rear, while the rest faced them from the front.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom does more for a person than ten rulers can do for a city.

Ecclesiastes 9:16

I have always said that wisdom is better than strength, but no one thinks of the poor as wise or pays any attention to what they say.

Acts 23:21

But don't listen to them, because there are more than forty men who will be hiding and waiting for him. They have taken a vow not to eat or drink until they have killed him. They are now ready to do it and are waiting for your decision.”

Joshua 8:16

All the men in the city had been called together to go after them, and as they pursued Joshua, they kept getting farther away from the city.

Joshua 8:3

So Joshua got ready to go to Ai with all his soldiers. He picked out thirty thousand of his best troops and sent them out at night

Judges 20:29

So the Israelites put some soldiers in hiding around Gibeah.

Judges 20:33

So when the main army of the Israelites pulled back and regrouped at Baaltamar, the men surrounding Gibeah suddenly rushed out of their hiding places in the rocky country around the city.

Judges 20:36

and the Benjaminites realized they were defeated. The main body of the Israelite army had retreated from the Benjaminites because they were relying on the men that they had put in hiding around Gibeah.

Judges 9:25

The men of Shechem put men in ambush against Abimelech on the mountaintops, and they robbed everyone who passed their way. Abimelech was told about this.

Judges 9:32

Now then, you and your men should move by night and hide in the fields.

1 Samuel 15:2

He is going to punish the people of Amalek because their ancestors opposed the Israelites when they were coming from Egypt.

1 Samuel 15:5

Then he and his men went to the city of Amalek and waited in ambush in a dry riverbed.