Joshua 8:14 - Modern English Version

¹⁴ When the king of Ai saw this, the men of the city hurriedly got up early and went out to engage Israel in battle at the assembly point near the Arabah. Yet he did not know that there was an ambush for him behind the city.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ When the king [and people] of Ai saw it, they hastily rose early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle [at a time and place appointed] before the Arabah [plain]. But he did not know of the ambush against him behind the city.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he knew not that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ As soon as the king of Ai saw this, he and all his troops, the men of the city, hurried out early in the morning to meet Israel in battle. They moved out to the battleground on the slopes down toward the Jordan. He didn’t know that there was an ambush set against him behind the city.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ And when the king of Ai had seen this, he hurried in the morning, and he went out with the entire army of the city. And he arranged them in a line opposite the desert, not knowing that an ambush lay hidden behind his back.

Joshua 8:14 Tagairtí Cros

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For no one knows his appointed time. Like fish caught in a cruel net, like birds caught in a snare, so people are ensnared in an evil time, when it suddenly falls on them.

Isaiah 19:11

Surely the princes of Zoan are fools; the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings?”

Isaiah 19:13

The princes of Zoan have become fools; the princes of Memphis are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even those who are the cornerstone of her tribes.

Daniel 4:31

While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven: “O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you!

Matthew 24:39

and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Matthew 24:50

the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not look for him and in an hour he is not aware of

Deuteronomy 1:1

These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on the other side of the Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab.

Joshua 8:13

So they stationed the people, all the army that was on the north of the city, and its rear guard on the west of the city, and Joshua spent that night in the midst of the valley.

Joshua 8:15

So Joshua and all Israel allowed themselves to be beaten before them, and they fled in the direction of the wilderness.

Joshua 8:16

All the people who were in Ai were assembled to pursue them, so they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city.

Joshua 8:5

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

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their judgment, made long ago, does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.

Judges 20:37

So the ambushing force rushed on and attacked Gibeah. They struck down the whole city with the edge of the sword.